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In a recent paper Martin & Lubow showed that a circumbinary disc around an eccentric binary can undergo damped nodal oscillations that lead to the polar (perpendicular) alignment of the disc relative to the binary orbit. The disc angular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

In this paper we revisit the problem of the tidal interaction occuring between a protostellar accretion disc and a secondary point mass following a parabolic trajectory. We model the disc response analytically and we compare our results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John D. Larwood

The disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide a natural environment where stellar-mass black holes (BHs) can dynamically pair, undergo repeated interactions, and eventually merge. It is commonly assumed that gas accretion will both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Gaia Fabj , Christopher Tiede , Connar Rowan , Martin Pessah , Johan Samsing

It is known that an embedded massive planet will open a gap in a protoplanetary disc via angular momentum exchange with the disc material. The resulting surface density profile of the disc is investigated for one dimensional and two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Paul Hallam , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have in recent years been recognized as possible sites for gravitational wave sources, leading to a series of numerical studies on the evolution of disk-embedded black hole binaries. The majority of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-24 Philip Kirkeberg , Rixin Li , Martin E. Pessah

We investigate the effect of a planet on an eccentric orbit on a two dimensional low mass gaseous disk. At a planet eccentricity above the planet's Hill radius divided by its semi-major axis, we find that the disk morphology differs from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Pasha Hosseinbor , Richard Edgar , Alice Quillen , Amanda LaPage

We investigate the orbital evolution of planetesimals in a self-gravitating circumstellar disc in the size regime ($\sim 1-5000$ km) where the planetesimals behave approximately as test particles in the disc's non-axisymmetric potential. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Britsch , C. J. Clarke , G. Lodato

[Abridged] The study of disc kinematics has recently opened up as a promising method to detect unseen planets. However, a systematic, statistically meaningful analysis of such an approach remains missing. The aim of this work is to devise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Andres F. Izquierdo , Leonardo Testi , Stefano Facchini , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

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

Motivated by the increasing number of detections of merging black holes by LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA, black hole (BH) binary mergers in the discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is investigated as a possible merger channel. In this pathway, BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Connar Rowan , Tjarda Boekholt , Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman

In a previous work (Pichardo et al. 2005), we studied stable configurations for circumstellar discs in eccentric binary systems. We searched for "invariant loops": closed curves (analogous to stable periodic orbits in time-independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Pichardo , Linda S. Sparke , Luis A. Aguilar

Instabilities and strong dynamical interactions between multiple giant planets have been proposed as a possible explanation for the surprising orbital properties of extrasolar planetary systems. In particular, dynamical instabilities seem…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric B. Ford , Frederic A. Rasio , Kenneth Yu

Circumbinary disks crucially affect the orbital and electromagnetic properties of binary systems across the universe, from stars in our galactic neighborhood to supermassive black hole binaries formed as the result of tumultuous galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , Luciano Combi

Warped accretion discs are expected in many protostellar binary systems. In this paper, we study the long-term evolution of disc warp and precession for discs with dimensionless thickness $H/r$ larger than their viscosity parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francois Foucart , Dong Lai

Orbits of known extrasolar planets that are located outside the tidal circularization regions of their parent stars are often substantially eccentric. By contrast, planetary orbits in our Solar System are approximately circular, reflecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. I. Chiang , D. Fischer , E. Thommes

Previous work has shown that interactions between a central binary system and a circumbinary disc (CBD) can lead to the binary orbit either shrinking or expanding, depending on the properties of the disc. In this work, we perform…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 George Turpin , Richard Nelson

We present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of pairs of planets migrating simultaneously in the Type I regime in a protoplanetary disc. Convergent migration naturally leads to the trapping of these planets in mean-motion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 T. O. Hands , R. D. Alexander

We calculate global $m=1$ modes with low pattern speed corresponding to introducing a finite eccentricity into a protoplanetary disc. We consider disc models which are either isolated or contain one or two protoplanets orbiting in an inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. B. Papaloizou

The disc surrounding PDS 70, with two directly imaged embedded giant planets, is an ideal laboratory to study planet-disc interaction. We present three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the system. In our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Claudia Toci , Giuseppe Lodato , Valentin Christiaens , Davide Fedele , Christophe Pinte , Daniel J. Price , Leonardo Testi

Modeling the orbital dynamics of objects in galactic disks is crucial to understanding the stability and evolution of disk galaxies. While studies of galactic orbits are largely dominated by $N$-body simulations, perturbative analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-24 Sena Ghobadi