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By evaluating angular momentum directions of open cluster (OC) samples across various Galactocentric radii, we assessed their orbital plane inclinations. Our findings reveal that, without considering the local tilt of the Galactic disk near…

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Accretion discs at sub-pc distances around supermassive black holes are likely to cool rapidly enough that self-gravity results in fragmentation. Here, we use high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of a simplified disc model to study how…

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The inner region of the accretion disk around a magnetized star (T Tauri star, white dwarf or neutron star) is subjected to magnetic torques that induce warping and precession of the disk. These torques arise from the interaction between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Dong Lai

Annular substructures in protoplanetary discs, ubiquitous in sub-mm observations, can be caused by gravitational coupling between a disc and its embedded planets. Planetary density waves inject angular momentum into the disc leading to gap…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Amelia J. Cordwell , Roman R. Rafikov

We study the effects of general relativity (GR) on the evolution and alignment of circumbinary disks around binaries on all scales. We implement relativistic apsidal precession of the binary into the hydrodynamics code {\sc phantom}. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-18 Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin , C. J. Nixon , Aaron M. Geller , Stephen H. Lubow , Zhaohuan Zhu , Stephen Lepp

We present 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the collapse of clumps formed through gravitational instability in the outer part of a protoplanetary disc. The initial conditions are taken directly from a global disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Galvagni , T. Hayfield , A. C. Boley , L. Mayer , R. Roskar , P. Saha

We consider the shape of an accretion disc whose outer regions are misaligned with the spin axis of a central black hole and calculate the steady state form of the warped disc in the case where the viscosity and surface densities are power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rebecca G. Martin , J. E. Pringle , Christopher A. Tout

Spiral density waves observed in protoplanetary discs have often been used to infer the presence of embedded planets. This inference relies both on simulations as well as the linear theory of planet-disc interaction developed for planets on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Callum W. Fairbairn , Roman R. Rafikov

Simulations of the collapse and fragmentation of turbulent molecular clouds and dense young clusters show that encounters between disc-surrounded stars are relatively common events which should significantly influence the resulting disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Pfalzner , S. Umbreit , Th. Henning

The formation of protoplanetary discs during the collapse of molecular dense cores is significantly influenced by angular momentum transport, notably by the magnetic torque. In turn, the evolution of the magnetic field is determined by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Patrick Hennebelle , Benoit Commercon , Gilles Chabrier , Pierre Marchand

One class of protoplanetary disc models, the X-wind model, predicts strongly subkeplerian orbital gas velocities, a configuration that can be sustained by magnetic tension. We investigate disc-planet interactions in these subkeplerian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. -J. Paardekooper

We investigate the mechanism of polar alignment for accretion discs in hierarchical systems (HSs) with more than two stars. In eccentric binary systems, low mass discs that are sufficiently tilted to the binary orbit align in a polar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Simone Ceppi , Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Nicolás Cuello , Stephen H. Lubow

Accretion discs are present around both stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. A wide variety of circumstantial evidence implies that many of these discs are warped. The standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Scott Tremaine , Shane W. Davis

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

It is expected that an average protostar will undergo at least one impulsive interaction with a neighbouring protostar whilst a large fraction of its mass is still in a massive, extended disc. If protostars are formed individually within a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. J. Watkins , A. S. Bhattal , H. M. J. Boffin , N. Francis , A. P. Whitworth

The surroundings of massive protostars constitute an accretion disc which has numerically been shown to be subject to fragmentation and responsible for luminous accretion-driven outbursts. Moreover, it is suspected to produce close binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 D. M. -A. Meyer , R. Kuiper , W. Kley , K. G. Johnston , E. Vorobyov

We consider the precession rates of eccentric discs in close binaries, and compare theoretical predictions with the results of numerical disc simulations and with observed superhump periods. A simple dynamical model for precession is found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James R. Murray

In a population of multiple protostellar systems with discs, the sub-population of circumbinary discs whose orbital plane is highly misaligned with respect to the binary's orbital plane constrains the initial distribution of orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Simone Ceppi , Nicolás Cuello , Giuseppe Lodato , Cristiano Longarini , Daniel J. Price , Daniel Elsender , Matthew R. Bate

Disc winds and planet formation are considered to be two of the most important mechanisms that drive the evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary discs and in turn define the environment in which planets form and evolve. While both have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-20 Michael L. Weber , Barbara Ercolano , Giovanni Picogna , Christian Rab

We analyse some properties of circumplanetary discs. Flow through such discs may provide most of the mass to gas giant planets, and such discs are likely sites for the formation of regular satellites. We model these discs as accretion discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow