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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

Binary star systems can accrete material originating from a circumbinary disc. Since it is common for the circumbinary disc to be tilted with respect to the binary orbital plane, we test whether the accretion dynamics can be a diagnostic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Ya-Ping Li , Hongping Deng , Alessia Franchini

Recent observations have demonstrated that some subset of even moderately wide-separation planet-hosting binaries are preferentially configured such that planetary and binary orbits appear to lie within the same plane. In this work, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Konstantin Gerbig , Malena Rice , J. J. Zanazzi , Sam Christian , Andrew Vanderburg

A test particle orbit around an eccentric binary has two stationary states in which there is no nodal precession: coplanar and polar. Nodal precession of a misaligned test particle orbit centres on one of these stationary states. A low mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Charles P. Abod , Cheng Chen , Jeremy Smallwood , Ian Rabago , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

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

We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to show that an initially mildly misaligned circumbinary accretion disk around an eccentric binary can evolve to an orientation that is perpendicular to the orbital plane of the binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

Warped accretion discs are expected in many protostellar binary systems. In this paper, we study the long-term evolution of disc warp and precession for discs with dimensionless thickness $H/r$ larger than their viscosity parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francois Foucart , Dong Lai

In a recent paper Martin & Lubow showed that a circumbinary disc around an eccentric binary can undergo damped nodal oscillations that lead to the polar (perpendicular) alignment of the disc relative to the binary orbit. The disc angular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

We perform SPH simulations to study precession and changes in alignment between the circumprimary disc and the binary orbit in misaligned binary systems. We find that the precession process can be described by the rigid-disc approximation,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 Krisada Rawiraswattana , David A. Hubber , Simon P. Goodwin

Observations of hierarchical triple star systems show that misalignments are common both between the angular momentum vector of the inner binary and the outer companion orbit, and between the outer binary orbit and a circumtriple gas disk.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Stephen Lepp , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

Inspired by recent observations suggesting that the retrograde precession of the brown dwarf binary 2M1510 AB is consistent with induction by a polar circumbinary planet, we investigate the formation of such planets by studying the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Thomas A. Baycroft , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Richard P. Nelson

Circumbinary gas disks that are misaligned to the binary orbital plane evolve toward either a coplanar or a polar-aligned configuration with respect to the binary host. The preferred alignment depends on the dynamics of the disk: whether it…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ted M. Johnson , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Stephen H. Lubow

The large spin-orbit misalignments in the DI Herculis stellar binary system have resolved the decades-long puzzle of the anomalously slow apsidal precession rate, but raise new questions regarding the origin of the obliquities. This paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Kassandra R. Anderson , Dong Lai

Accretion discs are common in binary systems, and they are often found to be misaligned with respect to the binary orbit. The gravitational torque from a companion induces nodal precession in misaligned disc orbits. We calculate whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Suzan Doğan , Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel J. Price

We present the results of non linear, hydrodynamic simulations, in three dimensions, of the tidal perturbation of accretion discs in binary systems where the orbit is circular and not necessarily coplanar with the disc mid-plane. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. D. Larwood , R. P. Nelson , J. C. B. Papaloizou , C. Terquem

Martin & Lubow (2017) showed through simulations that an initially tilted disc around an eccentric binary can evolve to polar alignment in which the disc lies perpendicular to the binary orbital plane. We apply linear theory to show both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

We model the overall shape of an accretion disc in a semi-detached binary system in which mass is transfered on to a spinning black hole the spin axis of which is misaligned with the orbital rotation axis. We assume the disc is in a steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Rebecca G. Martin , J. E. Pringle , Christopher A. Tout

We study orbital inclination changes associated with the precession of a disc-planet system that occurs through gravitational interaction with a binary companion on an inclined orbit. We investigate whether this scenario can account for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-14 M. Xiang-Gruess , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Binary systems are ubiquitous in the Universe and often host circumbinary discs that are misaligned with the binary orbital plane. Such misalignments can affect disc evolution and binary accretion variability. We here present 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiqi Yang , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Hongping Deng , Ya-Ping Li , Alessia Franchini , Ruobing Dong , Shang-Fei Liu

We investigate the formation mechanism for the observed nearly polar aligned (perpendicular to the binary orbital plane) debris ring around the eccentric orbit binary 99 Herculis. An initially inclined nonpolar debris ring or disc will not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Alessia Franchini , Cheng Chen , Eric Becerril , Stephen H. Lubow , Chao-Chin Yang , Rebecca G. Martin
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