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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

Over the past decade, SPHERE scattered light observations of protoplanetary discs have revealed previously unseen features with unprecedented resolution. One such feature are radial streaks of reduced brightness that are commonly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Deniz Akansoy , Helen C. Petrou , Giulia Ballabio , Anna B. T. Penzlin

In recent years an increasing number of observational studies have hinted at the presence of warps in protoplanetary discs, however a general comprehensive description of observational diagnostics of warped discs was missing. We performed a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Attila Juhasz , Stefano Facchini

We consider the response of a protostellar disc to a tidally induced warp and the resultant changes in the spectral energy distribution (SED). We argue that for typical protostellar disc parameters the warp is communicated through the disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. J. Nixon , J. E. Pringle

Spatially resolved observations of protoplanetary discs are revealing that their inner regions can be warped or broken from the outer disc. A few mechanisms are known to lead to such 3D structures; among them, the interaction with a stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Stefano Facchini , Attila Juhász , Giuseppe Lodato

Scattered light images of transition discs in the near-infrared often show non-axisymmetric structures in the form of wide-open spiral arms in addition to their characteristic low-opacity inner gap region. We study self-gravitating discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 A. Pohl , P. Pinilla , M. Benisty , S. Ataiee , A. Juhasz , C. P. Dullemond , R. Van Boekel , T. Henning

Protoplanetary disks observed edge-on commonly show asymmetries that can be caused by shadows cast from a warp. With the growing amount of these observations, methods to constrain warp parameters are urgently needed. In this work, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Carolin N. Kimmig , Marion Villenave

Warped disks are almost ubiquitous among spiral galaxies. Here we revisit and test the `fly-by scenario' of warp formation, in which impulsive encounters between galaxies are responsible for warped disks. Based on N-body simulations, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jeonghwan H. Kim , Sebastien Peirani , Sungsoo Kim , Hong Bae Ann , Sung-Ho An , Suk-Jin Yoon

Tidal encounters in star clusters perturb discs around young protostars. In Cuello et al. (2019a, Paper I) we detailed the dynamical signatures of a stellar flyby in both gas and dust. Flybys produce warped discs, spirals with evolving…

We present 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of protoplanetary discs undergoing a flyby by a stellar perturber on a parabolic orbit lying in a plane inclined relative to the disc mid-plane. We model the disc as a mixture of gas…

Observations show evidence that a significant fraction of protoplanetary disks contain warps. A warp in a disk evolves in time affecting the appearance of shadows and greatly influencing kinematic signatures. So far, many theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 C. N. Kimmig , C. P. Dullemond

Over the last few years instruments such as VLT/SPHERE and Subaru/HiCIAO have been able to take detailed scattered light images of protoplanetary discs. Many of the features observed in these discs are generally suspected to be caused by an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-25 D. Kloster , M. Flock

We explore whether protoplanetary disks with self-shadowing from puffed up inner rims exhibit observable features in scattered light images. We use both self-consistent hydrostatic equilibrium calculations and parameterized models to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Ruobing Dong

Numerous protoplanetary disks exhibit shadows in scattered light observations. These shadows are typically cast by misaligned inner disks and are associated with observable structures in the outer disk such as bright arcs and spirals.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Alexandros Ziampras , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Tilman Birnstiel , Myriam Benisty , Richard P. Nelson

In this paper we analyse the propagation of warps in protostellar circumbinary discs. We use these systems as a test environment in which to study warp propagation in the bending-wave regime, with the addition of an external torque due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Stefano Facchini , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

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

Detailed observations of gaps in protoplanetary disks have revealed structures that drive current research on circumstellar disks. One such feature is the two intensity nulls seen along the outer disk of the HD 142527 system, which are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sebastian Marino , Sebastian Perez , Simon Casassus

Spiral structures are a common feature in scattered-light images of protoplanetary disks, and of great interest as possible tracers of the presence of planets. However, other mechanisms have been put foward to explain them, including…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 M. Kama , P. Pinilla , A. N. Heays

Circumstellar asymmetries such as central warps have recently been shown to cast shadows on outer disks. We investigate the hydrodynamical consequences of such variable illumination on the outer regions of a transition disk, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Matias Montesinos , Sebastian Perez , Simon Casassus , Sebastian Marino , Jorge Cuadra , Valentin Christiaens

Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for these observations is a disc warp, which could be induced by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rebecca Nealon , Giovanni Dipierro , Richard Alexander , Rebecca Martin , Chris Nixon
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