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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…

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The pre-stellar cores in which low mass stars form are generally well magnetized. Our simulations show that early protostellar discs are massive and experience strong magnetic torques in the form of magnetic braking and protostellar…

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Circumplanetary discs can be linearly unstable to the growth of disc tilt in the tidal potential of the star-planet system. We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to characterize the disc conditions needed for instability,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Rebecca G. Martin , Zhaohuan Zhu , Philip J. Armitage , Chao-Chin Yang , Hans Baehr

The problem of the late accretion phase of the evolution of an axisymmetric, isothermal magnetic disk surrounding a forming star has been formulated in a companion paper. The "central sink approximation" is used to circumvent the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

We study the stability of poloidal magnetic fields anchored in a thin accretion disc. The two-dimensional hydrodynamics in the disc plane is followed by a grid-based numerical simulation including the vertically integrated magnetic forces.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Stehle , H. C. Spruit

The evolution of circumstellar discs is influenced by their surroundings. The relevant processes include external photoevaporation due to nearby stars, and dynamical truncations. The impact of these processes on disc populations depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Francisca Concha-Ramírez , Maite J. C. Wilhelm , Simon Portegies Zwart

Disk accretion onto a magnetized star occurs in a variety of astrophysical contexts, from young stars to X-ray pulsars. The magnetohydrodynamic interaction between the stellar field and the accreting matter can have a strong effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Arieh Konigl , Christof Litwin

We present high-resolution 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the formation and evolution of protostellar discs in a turbulent molecular cloud. Using a piecewise polytropic equation of state, we perform two sets of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Hayfield , L. Mayer , J. Wadsley , A. C. Boley

We present simulations of the non-linear evolution of streaming instabilities in protoplanetary disks. The two components of the disk, gas treated with grid hydrodynamics and solids treated as superparticles, are mutually coupled by drag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin

In our previous study (Tsukamoto {\it et al.} 2023), we investigated formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks with 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering dust growth, and found that the modified equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yusuke Tsukamoto

Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations, we explore the evolution of circumplanetary disks around wide-orbit proto-gas giants. At large distances from the star (~100 AU), gravitational instability followed by disk fragmentation can form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Megan Shabram , Aaron Boley

We perform calculations of our one-dimensional, two-zone disk model to study the long-term evolution of the circumstellar disk. In particular, we adopt published photoevaporation prescriptions and examine whether the photoevaporative loss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Zhaohuan Zhu , Charles Gammie

The inner edge of the dead zone in protoplanetary disks has been shown to periodically go unstable, leading to accretion outbursts and annular substructure within the dead zone. While dust opacities play a key role in this process, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Alexandros Ziampras , Tilman Birnstiel , Nicolas Kaufmann , Michael Cecil , Thomas Pfeil

High-mass young stellar objects exhibit episodic accretion bursts similar to their low-mass counterparts. Understanding these outbursts is crucial for elucidating massive star formation and disk evolution around high-mass protostars. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Vardan Elbakyan , Dennis Wehner , Rolf Kuiper , Sergei Nayakshin , Alessio Caratti o Garatti , Zhen Guo

Eccentric gaseous discs are unstable to a parametric instability involving the resonant interaction between inertial-gravity waves and the eccentric mode in the disc. We present 3D global hydrodynamical simulations of inviscid circumbinary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Arnaud Pierens , Colin P. McNally , Richard P. Nelson

Our understanding of population III star formation is still in its infancy. They are formed in dark matter minihalos of $\rm 10^5-10^6 M_{\odot}$ at $z=20-30$. Recent high resolution cosmological simulations show that a protostellar disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher

Structure of a quasi-stationary stellar cluster is modelled assuming that it is embedded in the gravitational field of a super-massive black hole. Gradual orbital decay of stellar trajectories is caused by the dissipative interaction with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Subr , V. Karas , J. -M. Hure

The inspiral of a turbulent molecular cloud in the Galactic Centre may result in the formation of a small, dense and moderately eccentric gas disc around the supermassive black hole (SMBH). Such a disc is unstable to fragmentation and may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Alessia Gualandris , Michela Mapelli , Hagai B. Perets

We use magnetic collapse models to place some constraints on the formation and angular momentum evolution of circumstellar disks which are embedded in magnetized cloud cores. Previous models have shown that the early evolution of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Shantanu Basu

The circumnuclear disc (CND) orbiting the Galaxy's central black hole is a reservoir of material that can ultimately provide energy through accretion, or form stars in the presence of the black hole, as evidenced by the stellar cluster that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Marvin Blank , Mark R. Morris , Adam Frank , Jonathan J. Carroll-Nellenback , Wolfgang J. Duschl