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We show that gas disks around the components of an orbiting binary system (so-called minidisks) may be susceptible to a resonant instability which causes the minidisks to become significantly eccentric. Eccentricity is injected by, and also…

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We study the dynamical evolution of quasi-circular equal mass massive black hole binaries embedded in circumbinary discs from separations of $\sim 100R_{\rm g}$ down to the merger, following the post merger evolution. The binary orbit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Alessia Franchini , Matteo Bonetti , Alessandro Lupi , Alberto Sesana

Mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) are nowadays observed routinely thanks to gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. In the isolated binary-evolution channel, a common-envelope (CE) phase of a red supergiant (RSG) and a compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Dandan Wei , Fabian R. N. Schneider , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Eva Laplace , Friedrich K. Roepke , Marco Vetter

We study the evolution of the eccentricity of an eccentric orbit with spinning components. We develop a prescription to express the evolving eccentricity in terms of reference eccentricity and frequency. For that purpose we considered the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Sayak Datta

It is usually thought that viscous torque works to align a circumbinary disk with the binary's orbital plane. However, recent numerical simulations suggest that the disk may evolve to a configuration perpendicular to the binary orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

It is generally believed that gaseous disks around supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in centers of galaxies can facilitate binary merger and give rise to observational signatures both in electromagnetic and gravitational wave domains.…

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Massive stars are usually found in binaries, and binaries with periods less than 10 days may have a preference for near equal component masses. In this paper we investigate the evolution of these binaries all the way to contact and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-08 Jason A. Hwang , James C. Lombardi , Frederic A. Rasio , Vassiliki Kalogera

We investigate the secular evolution of the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity due to mass transfer in eccentric binaries, assuming conservation of total system mass and orbital angular momentum. Assuming a delta function mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. F. Sepinsky , B. Willems , V. Kalogera , F. A. Rasio

Parsec-scale separation supermassive black hole binaries in the centre of gas-rich galaxy merger remnants could be surrounded by massive circumbinary discs (CBDs). Black hole mass and spin evolution during the gas-rich binary inspiral are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-13 Martin A. Bourne , Davide Fiacconi , Debora Sijacki , Joanna M. Piotrowska , Sophie Koudmani

Many post-AGB star binaries are observed to have relatively high orbital eccentricities (up to 0.6). Recently, AC Her was observed to have a polar-aligned circumbinary disk. We perform hydrodynamic simulations to explore the impact of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Shunquan Huang , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

We study the development of finite eccentricity in accretion disks in close binary systems using a two-dimensional grid-based numerical scheme. We perform detailed parameter studies to explore the dependence on viscosity, disk aspect ratio,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wilhelm Kley , John Papaloizou , Gordon Ogilvie

We study the orbital stability of a non-zero mass, close-in circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various initial values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet mass, planet semi--major axis, and planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

We report on high-resolution simulations that explore the orbital decay of massive black hole (MBH) pairs with masses between $10^5$ and $10^7 M_{\odot}$ embedded in a circumnuclear gas disk (CND). An adiabatic equation of state is adopted,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Rafael Souza Lima , Lucio Mayer , Pedro R. Capelo , Elisa Bortolas , Thomas R. Quinn

Information about the last stages of a binary neutron star inspiral and the final merger can be extracted from quasi-equilibrium configurations and dynamical evolutions. In this article, we construct quasi-equilibrium configurations for…

Martin & Lubow (2017) found that an initially sufficiently misaligned low mass protoplanetary disc around an eccentric binary undergoes damped nodal oscillations of tilt angle and longitude of ascending node. Dissipation causes evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

In this letter we study the eccentricity evolution of a massive black hole (MBH) binary (MBHB) embedded in a rotating stellar cusp. Following the observation that stars on counter-rotating (with respect to the MBHB) orbits extract angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Alberto Sesana , Alessia Gualandris , Massimo Dotti

We carry out 2D viscous hydrodynamics simulations of circumbinary disk (CBD) accretion using {\footnotesize AREPO}. We resolve the accretion flow from a large-scale CBD down to the streamers and disks around individual binary components.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Diego Muñoz , Dong Lai , Kaitlin Kratter , Ryan Miranda

The most general bound binary black hole (BBH) system has an eccentric orbit and precessing spins. The detection of such a system with significant eccentricity close to the merger would be a clear signature of dynamical formation. In order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Khun Sang Phukon , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Amitesh Singh , Anuradha Gupta

Discs in binaries have a complex behavior because of the perturbations of the companion star. Planet formation in binary-star systems both depend on the companion star parameters and on the properties of the circumstellar disc. An eccentric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Marzari , C. Baruteau , H. Scholl , P. Thebault

The formation of a binary system surrounded by disks is the most common outcome of stellar formation. Hence studying and understanding the formation and the evolution of binary systems and associated disks is a cornerstone of star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. -L. Monin , C. J. Clarke , L. Prato , C. McCabe