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We discuss the physics of vortices in the circumstellar disks associated with young stellar objects. We elucidate the basic physical properties of these localized storm systems. In particular, we consider point vortices, linear vortices,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Fred Adams , Richard Watkins

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

The arising of turbulence in gas-dynamic (non-magnetic) accretion disks is a major issue of modern astrophysics. Such accretion disks should be stable against the turbulence generation, in contradiction to observations. Searching for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaygorodov

Circumbinary accretion occurs throughout the universe, from the formation of stars and planets to the aftermath of major galactic mergers. We present an extensive investigation of circumbinary accretion disks, studying circular binaries…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-13 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan

KH 15D is a protostellar binary system that shows a peculiar light curve. In order to model it, a narrow circumbinary precessing disc has been invoked, but a proper dynamical model has never been developed. In this paper, we analytically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Giuseppe Lodato , Stefano Facchini

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

Context. Inner cavities, accretion arms and density waves are characteristic structures in the density distribution of circumbinary disks. They are the result of the tidal interaction of the non-axisymmetric gravitational forces of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Roman Avramenko , Sebastian Wolf , Tobias F. Illenseer , Stig Rehberg

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

Disk accretion onto a weakly magnetized central object, e.g. a star, is inevitably accompanied by the formation of a boundary layer near the surface, in which matter slows down from the highly supersonic orbital velocity of the disk to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Roman R. Rafikov , James M. Stone

As of today ten circumbinary planets orbiting solar type main sequence stars have been discovered. Nearly all of them orbit around the central binary very closely to the region of instability where it is difficult to form them in situ. It…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Wilhelm Kley , Daniel Thun , Anna B. T. Penzlin

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

When an accretion disk surrounds a binary rotating in the same sense, the binary exerts strong torques on the gas. Analytic work in the 1D approximation indicated that these torques sharply diminish or even eliminate accretion from the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Ji-Ming Shi , Julian H. Krolik

We investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. We use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations of both gas and dust to model an initially highly misaligned circumbinary disc around an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini

Accretion disks in close binary systems are subject to a tidally driven parametric instability which leads to the growth of internal waves near the outer edges of such disks (Goodman 1993). These waves are important in understanding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ethan T. Vishniac , Changsong Zhang

Any perturbation to a disc galaxy that creates a misalignment between the planes of the inner and outer disc, will excite a slowly evolving bending wave in the outer disc. The torque from the stiff inner disc drives a retrograde,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista

We consider discs that orbit a central object and are tidally perturbed by a circular orbit companion. Such discs are sometimes subject to an eccentric instability due to the effects of certain resonances. Eccentric instabilities may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stephen H. Lubow

With hydrodynamical simulations we examine the evolution of a highly misaligned circumbinary disc around a black hole binary including the effects of general relativity. We show that a disc mass of just a few percent of the binary mass can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Bing Zhang , C. J. Nixon , Anna C. Childs

The star formation process in molecular clouds usually leads to the formation of multiple stellar systems, mostly binaries. Remaining disks around those stars may be located around individual stars (circumstellar disks) or around the entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm Kley , Andreas Burkert

Gravitational coupling between a protoplanetary disc and an embedded planet is often studied in a frame attached to a central star. This frame is non-inertial because of the stellar reflex motion, leading to indirect forces arising in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Roman R. Rafikov , Nicolas P. Cimerman , Callum W. Fairbairn , Alexander J. Dittmann

Gas rich dusty circumstellar discs observed around young stellar objects are believed to be the birthplace of planets and planetary systems. Recent observations revealed that large-scale horseshoe-like brightness asymmetries are present in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Rozgonyi , Zs. Regály