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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 vertical structure of stationary thin accretion discs is calculated from the energy balance equation with heat generation due to microscopic ion viscosity {\eta} and electron heat conductivity {\kappa}, both depending on temperature. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 K. L. Malanchev , K. A. Postnov , N. I. Shakura

Gaseous disks have been proposed as a mechanism for facilitating mergers of binary black holes. We explore circumbinary disk systems to determine the evolution of the central binary. To do so, we perform 3D, hydrodynamic, locally isothermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Mackenzie S. L. Moody , Ji-Ming Shi , James M. Stone

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

We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability, angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of accreting binaries. These dynamics can impact stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-26 Dong Lai , Diego J. Muñoz

Hydrodynamical interaction in circumbinary discs (CBDs) plays a crucial role in various astrophysical systems, ranging from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries in galactic centers. Most previous simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai , Douglas N. C. Lin

We present the ultraviolet-optical-infrared spectral energy distribution of the low inclination novalike cataclysmic variable V592 Cassiopeiae, including new mid-infrared observations from 3.5-24 microns obtained with the Spitzer Space…

With a series of numerical simulations, we analyze the thermo-hydrodynamical evolution of circumstellar disks containing Jupiter-size protoplanets. In the framework of the two-dimensional approximation, we consider an energy equation that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Gennaro D'Angelo , Thomas Henning , Willy Kley

Stellar-mass binary black holes may have circumbinary disks if formed through common-envelope evolution or within gaseous environments. Disks can drive binaries into wider and more eccentric orbits, while gravitational waves harden and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Samir Goorachurn , Magdalena Siwek , Christopher J. Moore

Using the anelastic approximation of linearised hydrodynamic equations, we investigate the development of axially symmetric small perturbations in thin Keplerian discs. The sixth-order dispersion equation is derived and numerically solved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-02 N. Shakura , K. Postnov

We study the effect of irradiation from two accretion disks (minidisks) around respective black holes of stellar to intermediate masses in a circular binary on the spectrum of a circumbinary disk (CBD) surrounding them. We assume the CBD to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-19 Yunewoo Lee , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Kimitake Hayasaki

Context: A substantial fraction of protoplanetary disks forms around stellar binaries. The binary system generates a time-dependent non-axisymmetric gravitational potential, inducing strong tidal forces on the circumbinary disk. This leads…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 R. Avramenko , S. Wolf , T. F. Illenseer

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

Accretion disks in binary systems can experience hydrodynamic impact at inner as well as outer edges. The first case is typical for protoplanetary disks around young T Tau stars. The second one is typical for circumstellar disks in close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo

We carry out numerical simulations of circumbinary discs, solving the viscous hydrodynamics equations on a polar grid covering an extended disc outside the binary co-orbital region. We use carefully controlled outer boundary conditions and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Ryan Miranda , Diego Muñoz , Dong Lai

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 analyse the evolution of a mildly inclined circumbinary disc that orbits an eccentric orbit binary by means of smoother particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations and linear theory. We show that the alignment process of an initially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Stephen H. Lubow , Alessia Franchini , Rebecca G. Martin

Accretion disks in close binary systems are subject to a tidally driven parametric instability which leads to the growth of internal waves near the outer edges of such disks (Goodman 1993). These waves are important in understanding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ethan T. Vishniac , Changsong Zhang

The formation of a binary system surrounded by disks is the most common outcome of stellar formation. Hence studying and understanding the formation and the evolution of binary systems and associated disks is a cornerstone of star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. -L. Monin , C. J. Clarke , L. Prato , C. McCabe

Much of the parameter space relevant to the evolution of astrophysical circumbinary accretion discs remains unexplored. We have carried out a suite of circumbinary disc simulations surveying both disc thickness and kinematic viscosity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan