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Black holes accreting well below the Eddington rate are believed to have geometrically thick, optically thin, rotationally supported accretion discs in which the Coulomb mean free path is large compared to $GM/c^2$. In such an environment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Francois Foucart , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

The short time evolution of three dimensional small perturbations is studied. Exhibiting spectral asymptotic stability, thin discs are nonetheless shown to host intensive hydrodynamical activity in the shape of non modal growth of initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Yu. M. Shtemler , M. Mond , G. Rudiger , O. Regev , O. M. Umurhan

We perform one of the first studies into the nonlinear evolution of tidally excited inertial waves in a uniformly rotating fluid body, exploring a simplified model of the fluid envelope of a planet (or the convective envelope of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 B. Favier , A. J. Barker , C. Baruteau , G. I. Ogilvie

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

Accretion disks are observed in young stars, cataclysmic variables, binary X-ray sources et al. Accretion disk theory was first developed as a theory with the local heat balance, where the whole energy produced by a viscous heating was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

In a standard, steady, thin accretion disc, the radial distribution of the dissipation of the accretion energy is determined simply by energy considerations. Here we draw attention to the fact that while the (quasi-)steady discs in dwarf…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 C. J. Nixon , J. E. Pringle

The arising of turbulence in gas-dynamic (non-magnetic) accretion disks is a major issue of modern astrophysics. Such accretion disks should be stable against the turbulence generation, in contradiction to observations. Searching for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaygorodov

Origin of turbulence in cold accretion disks, particularly in 3D, which is expected to be hydrodynamic but not magnetohydrodynamic, is a big puzzle. While the flow must exhibit some turbulence in support of the transfer of mass inward and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We present high resolution 3-D simulations of the planet-disc interaction using smoothed particle hydrodynamics, to investigate the possibility of driving eccentricity growth by this mechanism. For models with a given disc viscosity (\alpha…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alex Dunhill , Richard Alexander , Phil Armitage

Binary star systems can accrete material originating from a circumbinary disc. Since it is common for the circumbinary disc to be tilted with respect to the binary orbital plane, we test whether the accretion dynamics can be a diagnostic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Ya-Ping Li , Hongping Deng , Alessia Franchini

Martin & Lubow (2017) found that an initially sufficiently misaligned low mass protoplanetary disc around an eccentric binary undergoes damped nodal oscillations of tilt angle and longitude of ascending node. Dissipation causes evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

We present solutions to the relativistic thin disc evolutionary equation using an ${\alpha}$-model for the turbulent stress tensor. Solutions with a finite stress at the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) give rise to bolometric light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew Mummery , Steven A. Balbus

Axisymmetric accretion disks in vicinity of a central compact body are studied. For the simple models such as vertically isothermal disks as well as adiabatic ones the exact solutions to the steady-state MHD (magneto-hydrodynamic) system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 V. S. Borisov

In a novel approach to studying viscous accretion flows, viscosity has been introduced as a perturbative effect, involving a first-order correction in the $\alpha$-viscosity parameter. This method reduces the problem of solving a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee , Atri Bhattacharya , Tapas K. Das , Arnab K. Ray

With hundreds of exoplanets detected, it is necessary to revisit giant planets accretion models to explain their mass distribution. In particular, formation of sub-jovian planets remains unclear, given the short timescale for the runaway…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guillaume Rivier , Aurélien Crida , Alessandro Morbidelli , Yann Brouet

An analytic solution is presented to the three-dimensional problem of steady axisymmetric fluid flow through an accretion disk. The solution has been obtained through a systematic expansion in the small parameter epsilon =H/R (the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Kluzniak , D. Kita

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

We develop an analytic theory to describe spiral density waves propagating in a shearing disc in the weakly nonlinear regime. Such waves are generically found to be excited in simulations of turbulent accretion disks, in particular if said…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Tobias Heinemann , John C. B. Papaloizou

Binary systems are ubiquitous in the Universe and often host circumbinary discs that are misaligned with the binary orbital plane. Such misalignments can affect disc evolution and binary accretion variability. We here present 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiqi Yang , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Hongping Deng , Ya-Ping Li , Alessia Franchini , Ruobing Dong , Shang-Fei Liu

We aim to examine the detailed disc structure that arises in a misaligned binary system as a function of the disc aspect ratio h, viscosity parameter alpha, disc outer radius R, and binary inclination angle gamma_F. We also aim to examine…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Moritz Fragner , Richard Nelson
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