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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

Shadows are commonly observed in protoplanetary disks in near-infrared and (sub)millimeter images, often cast by misaligned inner disks or other obscuring material. While recent studies show that shadows can alter disk dynamics, only the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Callum W. Fairbairn

Motivated by misaligned discs observed in eccentric orbit Be/X-ray binaries, we examine the evolution of a retrograde disc around one component of an eccentric binary with hydrodynamic simulations, $n$-body simulations and linear theory.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Madeline Overton , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , Stephen Lepp

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations have demonstrated that the structure of a protoplanetary disc may be strongly affected by a planet orbiting in a plane that is misaligned to the disc. When the planet is able to open a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Rebecca Nealon , Christophe Pinte , Richard Alexander , Daniel Mentiplay , Giovanni Dipierro

Precession is a very common phenomenon for small-scale astronomical objects. However, the precession of galactic disks, occurring on a scale larger than kilo-parsec, has barely been studied in the literature. Quantifying this precession in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-04 Yuan Wang , Xiong Luo , Huiyuan Wang , Enci Wang , Hao Li , Federico Marinacci , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger

The Kepler satellite has discovered a number of transiting planets around close binary stars. These circumbinary systems have highly aligned planetary and binary orbits. In this paper, we explore how the mutual inclination between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 Francois Foucart , Dong Lai

We discuss the factors influencing the formation and gravitational fragmentation of protostellar discs. We start with a review of how observations of prestellar cores can be analysed statistically to yield plausible initial conditions for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 A. P. Whitworth , O. D. Lomax

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

(Abridged) The Galactic Center (GC) hosts a population of young stars some of which seem to form mutually inclined discs of clockwise and counter clockwise rotating stars. We present a warped disc origin scenario for these stars assuming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Ulubay-Siddiki , H. Bartko , O. Gerhard

Breaks in the radial luminosity profiles of galaxies have been until now mostly studied averaged over discs. Here we study separately breaks in thin and thick discs in 70 edge-on galaxies using imaging from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar…

Context. More than 60 planets have been discovered so far in systems that harbour two stars, some of which have binary semi-major axes as small as 20 au. It is well known that the formation of planets in such systems is strongly influenced…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 M. Gyergyovits , S. Eggl , E. Pilat - Lohinger , Ch. Theis

Many protostellar gapped and binary discs show misalignments between their inner and outer discs; in some cases, $\sim70$ degree misalignments have been observed. Here we show that these misalignments can be generated through a "secular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 James E. Owen , Dong Lai

We revisit the origin of the observed misaligned rings in the circumtriple disk around GW Ori. Previous studies appeared to disagree on whether disk breaking is caused by the differential precession driven in the disk by the triple star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin , Rebecca Nealon

We use a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics code to simulate growth and dissipation of Be star discs in systems where the binary orbit is misaligned with respect to the spin axis of the primary star. We investigate six…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 M. Suffak , C. E. Jones , A. C. Carciofi

Black holes may accrete gas with angular momentum vectors misaligned with the black hole spin axis. The resulting accretion disks are subject to Lense-Thirring precession, and hence torque. Analytical calculations and simulations show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 J. Speicher , O. Blaes

We determine the influence of the Milky Way's warp on the kinematics of stars across the disc, and therefore measure its precession rate and line of nodes under different assumptions. We do this by applying Jeans' first equation to a model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Viktor Hrannar Jónsson , Paul J. McMillan

Recent observations of gaps and non-axisymmetric features in the dust distributions of transition disks have been interpreted as evidence of embedded massive protoplanets. However, comparing the predictions of planet-disk interaction models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander J. W. Richert , Wladimir Lyra , Aaron Boley , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Neal Turner

Observations of protoplanetary disks around binary and triple star systems suggest that misalignments between the orbital plane of the stars and the disks are common. Motivated by recent observations of polar circumbinary disks, we explore…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Stephen Lepp , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

We report results of the first global three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the waves excited in an accretion disc by a rotating star with a dipole magnetic field misaligned from the star's rotation axis (which is aligned…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

We describe the first grid-based simulations of the polar alignment of a circumbinary disk. We simulate the evolution of an inclined disk around an eccentric binary using the grid-based code ATHENA++. The use of a grid-based numerical code…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Ian Rabago , Zhaohuan Zhu , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow