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The radial transport of angular momentum in accretion disk is a fundamental process in the universe. It governs the dynamical evolution of accretion disks and has implications for various issues ranging from the formation of planets to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-19 Sébastien Fromang , Geoffroy Lesur

High-resolution imaging of some protoplanetary disks in scattered light reveals presence of the global spiral arms of significant amplitude, likely excited by massive planets or stellar companions. Assuming that these arms are density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Roman R. Rafikov

We analyze bars formed in $N$-body simulations to investigate two key aspects of stellar kinematic structure of barred galaxies: the angular distributions of the radial and azimuthal components of stellar velocities, and the impact of bars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Seungwon Baek , Woong-Tae Kim , Dajeong Jang , Taehyun Kim

The stellar mass, size and rotational velocity of galactic disks all grow from redshift ~2 to the present by amounts that are estimated from observationally derived scaling relations. The product of these three quantities, the angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Alvio Renzini

The evolution of a stellar bar transforms not only the galactic disk, but also the host dark matter halo. We present high resolution, fully self-consistent N-body simulations that clearly demonstrate that dark matter halo central density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Martin Weinberg , Neal Katz

Various processes can induce long-lived overdense rings and arcs in protoplanetary and AGN accretion discs, such as the accumulation of gas at the outer edge of the dead zone, or the infall of material. Using the local approximation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-24 R. A. Anaya-Sánchez , F. J. Sánchez-Salcedo

Classical bulges and stellar bars are common features in disk galaxies and serve as key tracers of galactic evolution. Angular momentum exchange at bar resonances drives secular morphological changes throughout the disk, including bar…

We numerically investigate the dynamics of a 2D non-magnetised protoplanetary disc surrounded by an inflow coming from an external envelope. We find that the accretion shock between the disc and the inflow is unstable, leading to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Geoffroy Lesur , Patrick Hennebelle , Sébastien Fromang

We investigate the formation and evolution of nested bar systems in disk galaxies in a cosmological setting by following the development of an isolated dark matter (DM) and baryon density perturbation. The disks form within the assembling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Clayton Heller , Isaac Shlosman , Lia Athanassoula

Isolated barred galaxies evolve by redistributing their angular momentum, which, emitted by material in the inner disc at resonance with the bar, can be absorbed by resonant material in the outer disc, or in the halo. The amount of angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Athanassoula

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov

Circumbinary discs are generally thought to take up angular momentum and energy from the binary orbit over time through gravitational torques mediated by orbital resonances. This process leads to the shrinkage of the binary orbit over time,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-24 Ryan Heath , Chris Nixon

The orbital parameters of the observed extrasolar planets differ strongly from those of our own solar system. The differences include planets with high masses, small semi-major axis and large eccentricities. We performed numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm Kley

Through vertical resonances, bars can produce pseudo-bulges, within secular evolution. Bulges and pseudo-bulges have doubled their mass since z=1. The frequency of bulge-less galaxies at z=0 is difficult to explain, especially since clumpy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Francoise Combes

We study transient spiral structures in an isothermal, thin, galactic disc. We find no instability that can grow everywhere from infinitesimal disturbances, but spiral structure does grow in the disc due to an arbitrarily strong,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-07 Richard N Henriksen

Shadows and spirals seem to be common features of transition discs. Among the spiral-triggering mechanisms proposed, only one establishes a causal link between shadows and spirals so far. In fact, provided the presence of shadows in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Matías Montesinos , Nicolás Cuello

The disks that orbit young stars are the essential conduits and reservoirs of material for star and planet formation. Their structures, meaning the spatial variations of the disk physical conditions, reflect the underlying mechanisms that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Sean M. Andrews

We use high-resolution numerical simulations to follow the barred disk evolution in a suite of models with progressively more massive stellar bulges, with bulge-to-total (disk$+$bulge) mass ratios of $B/T\sim 0-0.25$, embedded in dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Xingchen Li , Isaac Shlosman , Daniel Pfenniger , Clayton Heller

Bars and spirals are among the main drivers of the secular evolution of galactic disks, and it is, thus, of prime importance to better understand their exact nature and dynamics. In this respect, the Milky Way provides a unique laboratory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert , Ivan Minchev

The results of an extensive numerical study of the orbital dynamics of small bodies ranging from micron-sized dust grains to 1 km objects subject to gas drag and also the gravitational attraction of a non-uniform gaseous nebula are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nader Haghighipour