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We examine the effect of self-gravity in a rotating thick-disk equilibrium in the presence of a dipolar magnetic field. In the first part, we find a self-similar solution for non-self-gravitating disks. The solution that we have found shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ghanbari , S. Abbassi

We present the exact calculus of the gravitational potential and acceleration along the symmetry axis of a plane, homogeneous, polar cell as a function of mean radius a, radial extension e, and opening angle f. Accurate approximations are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. -M. Huré , A. Pierens , F. Hersant

Context. In Class 0/I and the outskirts of Class II circumstellar discs, the self-gravity of gas significantly affects the disc's vertical hydrostatic equilibrium. The contribution of dust, whose measured mass is still uncertain, could…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Rendon Restrepo , U. Ziegler , M. Villenave , O. Gressel

We carry out the effect of $\beta$-prescription for viscosity which introduced by Duschel et al. 2000 & Hure, Richard & Zhan 2001, in a standard self-gravitating thin disks. We were predicted in a self-gravitating thin disk the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 Shahram Abbassi , Jamshid Ghanbari , Fatemeh Salehi

A method to construct exact general relativistic thick disks that is a simple generalization of the ``displace, cut and reflect'' method commonly used in Newtonian, as well as, in Einstein theory of gravitation is presented. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Guillermo A. Gonzalez , Patricio S. Letelier

Using controlled injection and recovery experiments, we devised an analysis prescription to assess the quality of dynamical measurements of protoplanetary disk gas masses based on resolved (CO) spectral line data, given observational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Sean M. Andrews , Richard Teague , Christopher P. Wirth , Jane Huang , Zhaohuan Zhu

A model one-dimensional self consistent steady state collisionless self-gravitating system in which all the particles have the same energy is presented. This has the remarkable property that the position and velocity of the particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-07 Rajaram Nityananda

Self-gravity plays an important role in the evolution of rotationally supported systems such as protoplanetary disks, accretion disks around black holes, or galactic disks, as it can both feed turbulence or lead to gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel

Pebble accretion has become a popular component to core accretion models of planet formation, and is especially relevant to the formation of compact, resonant terrestrial planetary systems. Pebbles initially form in the inner protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Duncan H Forgan

Large-scale, dust-trapping vortices may account for observations of asymmetric protoplanetary discs. Disc vortices are also potential sites for accelerated planetesimal formation by concentrating dust grains. However, in 3D discs vortices…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Min-Kai Lin , Arnaud Pierens

Galaxies are self-gravitating structures composed by several components encompassing spherical, axial and triaxial symmetry. Although real systems feature heterogeneous components whose properties are intimately connected, semi-analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 Matteo Bonetti , Elisa Bortolas , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti

Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations in a local stratified shearing box with realistic equations of state and opacities, we explored the outcome of self-gravity at 50 AU in a protoplanetary disc irradiated by the central star. We found…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Shigenobu Hirose , Ji-Ming Shi

The local gravitational instability of rotating discs is believed to be an important mechanism in different astrophysical processes, including the formation of gas and stellar clumps in galaxies. We aim to study in three dimensions the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-24 Carlo Nipoti , Cristina Caprioglio , Cecilia Bacchini

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

In self-consistent N-body simulations of collisionless systems, gravitational interactions are modified on small scales to remove singularities and simplify the task of numerically integrating the equations of motion. This `gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Joshua E. Barnes

Self-gravitational force calculation for infinitesimally thin disks is important for studies on the evolution of galactic and protoplanetary disks. Although high-order methods have been developed for hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Ming-Cheng Shiue , Rui-Zhu Wu , Chien-Chang Yen

We perform general relativistic simulations of self-gravitating black hole-disks in which the spin of the black hole is significantly tilted ($45^\circ$ and $90^\circ$) with respect to the angular momentum of the disk and the disk-to-black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Vasileios Paschalidis

Recent high-resolution simulations demonstrate that disks around primordial protostars easily fragment in the accretion phase before the protostars accrete less than a solar mass. To understand why the gravitational instability generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Kazutaka Kimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Sugimura

It is likely that most protostellar systems undergo a brief phase where the protostellar disc is self-gravitating. If these discs are prone to fragmentation, then they are able to rapidly form objects that are initially of several Jupiter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 D. H. Forgan , C. Hall , F. Meru , W. K. M. Rice

We present a new method of identifying protostellar disc fragments in a simulation based on density derivatives, and analyse our data using this and the existing CLUMPFIND method, which is based on an ordered search over all particles in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Cassandra Hall , Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice