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Motion of stellar-mass satellites is studied around a massive compact body which is surrounded by a gaseous slab of a stationary accretion disc. The satellites suffer an orbital decay due to hydrodynamical interaction with the disc medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Karas , L. Subr

The population synthesis of cataclysmic variables below the period is investigated. A grid of detailed binary evolutionary sequences has been calculated and included in the simulations to take account of additional angular momentum losses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Willems , U. Kolb , E. L. Sandquist , R. E. Taam , G. Dubus

The evolution of circumstellar discs is influenced by their surroundings. The relevant processes include external photoevaporation due to nearby stars, and dynamical truncations. The impact of these processes on disc populations depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Francisca Concha-Ramírez , Maite J. C. Wilhelm , Simon Portegies Zwart

We consider a particle that is subject to a constant force and scatters inelastically on a vibrating periodically corrugated floor. At small friction and small radius of the circular scatterers the dynamics is dominated by resonances…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Klages , I. F. Barna , L. Matyas

After a star has been tidally disrupted by a black hole, the debris forms an elongated stream. We start by studying the evolution of this gas before its bound part returns to the original stellar pericenter. While the axial motion is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Clément Bonnerot , Nicholas Stone

This thesis investigates phenomena occurring in black-hole accretion discs which are likely to induce high-frequency quasi-periodic variability. Two classes of pseudo-relativistic theoretical models are studied. The first is based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Barbara T. Ferreira

We investigate existence, stability, and instability of anchored rotating spiral waves in a model for geometric curve evolution. We find existence in a parameter regime limiting on a purely eikonal curve evolution. We study stability and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-06 Anthony Cortez , Nan Li , Nathan Mihm , Alice Xu , Xiaoxing Yu , Arnd Scheel

A star acquires much of its mass by accreting material from a disc. Accretion is probably not continuous but episodic. We have developed a method to include the effects of episodic accretion in simulations of star formation. Episodic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth , David Hubber

Spiral waves in excitable media possess both wave-like and particle-like properties. When resonantly forced (forced at the spiral rotation frequency) spiral cores travel along straight trajectories, but may reflect from medium boundaries.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-04-03 Jacob Langham , Dwight Barkley

We carry out three dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of gravitationally unstable discs using to explore the movement of mass in a disc following its fragmentation. Compared to a more quiescent state before it fragments, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-31 Farzana Meru

In this chapter, we review some of the interesting consequences that tilt between the spin axis of the black hole and angular momentum axis of the accretion disk can have on the dynamics, thermodynamics, and observational appearance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 P. Chris Fragile , Matthew Liska

Viscous Keplerian discs become sub-Keplerian close to a black hole since they pass through sonic points before entering into it. We study the time evolution of polytropic viscous accretion discs (both in one and two dimensional flows) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Giuseppe Lanzafame , D. Molteni , S. K. Chakrabarti

Observations of accreting systems often show significant variability (10-20 percent of accretion luminosity) on timescales much longer than expected for the disc regions releasing most of the luminosity. We propose an explicit physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. King , J. E. Pringle , R. G. West , M. Livio

Spiral galaxies comprise three major structural components; thin discs, thick discs, and central bulges. Relative dominance of these components is known to correlate with the total mass of the galaxy, and produces a remarkable morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-23 Masafumi Noguchi

In this paper, we describe the nonlinear outcome of spiral shocks in protoplanetary disks. Spiral shocks, for most protoplanetary disk conditions, create a loss of vertical force balance in the post-shock region and result in rapid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. C. Boley , R. H. Durisen

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 show that spiral waves in galaxy discs churn the stars and gas in a manner that largely preserves the overall angular momentum distribution and leads to little increase in random motion. Changes in the angular momenta of individual stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J A Sellwood , J J Binney

We perform 2D and 3D numerical simulations of an accretion disc in a close binary system using the Simplified Flux vector Splitting (SFS) finite volume method. In our calculations, gas is assumed to be the ideal one, and we calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Makoto Makita , Takuya Matsuda

Using observational data on the kinematical properties and density distributions of the subsystems of the Milky Way galaxy, we construct a set of multi-component equilibrium models of its disk. The dynamics of the disk is studied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-17 V. I. Korchagin , S. S. Khrapov , A. V. Khoperskov

We compute mass outflow rates from advective accretion disks around compact objects, such as neutron stars and black holes. These computations, for the first time, are done using combinations of exact transonic inflow and outflow solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das , Sandip K. Chakrabarti