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We present fully three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic jet launching simulations of a jet source orbiting in a binary system. We consider a time-dependent binary gravitational potential, thus all tidal forces that are experienced in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Christian Fendt

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 use an N-body simulation, constructed using GADGET-2, to investigate an accretion flow onto an astrophysical disk that is in the opposite sense to the disk's rotation. In order to separate dynamics intrinsic to the counter-rotating flow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Robert G. Hohlfeld , Richard V. E. Lovelace

We study the formation, evolution and physical properties of accretion disks formed via wind capture in binary systems. Using the AMR code AstroBEAR, we have carried out high resolution 3D simulations that follow a stellar mass secondary in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Huarte-Espinosa , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Jason Nordhaus , Adam Frank , Eric G. Blackman

The origin of chemically peculiar stars and non-zero eccentricity in evolved close binaries have been long-standing problems in binary stellar evolution. Answers to these questions may trace back to an intense mass transfer during AGB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Zhuo Chen , Natalia Ivanova , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback

We consider misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events occurring when a star encounters a supermassive rotating black hole. We use the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the disc shape when the stream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 P. B. Ivanov , V. V. Zhuravlev , J. C. B. Papaloizou

The rotation dynamics of spiral galaxies is modeled using a sum of two mass distributions: a spherical bulge and a thin disk. The density functions representing these mass distributions are calculated from the total angular momentum of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-09 Louis Marmet

We show that the angular momentum exchange mechanism governing the evolution of mass transferring binary stars does not apply to Roche-lobe filling planets, because most of the angular momentum of the mass transferring stream is absorbed by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Shi Jia , H. C. Spruit

We use a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics code to simulate growth and dissipation of Be star discs in systems where the binary orbit is misaligned with respect to the spin axis of the primary star. We investigate six…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 M. Suffak , C. E. Jones , A. C. Carciofi

Binaries occur in many astrophysical systems, from young protostellar binaries in star forming regions to supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy centers. In many cases, a circumbinary disk of gas forms around the binary with an orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Cheng Chen , Philip J. Armitage , C. J. Nixon

Many previous works studied the dynamical timescale mass transfer stability criteria based on the donor response with neglecting the stellar structure of the accretor. In this letter, we investigate the radial response of accretors with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Zi-Qi Zhao , Zhen-Wei Li , Lin Xiao , Hong-Wei Ge , Zhan-Wen Han

We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to show that an initially mildly misaligned circumbinary accretion disk around an eccentric binary can evolve to an orientation that is perpendicular to the orbital plane of the binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The question whether the interaction of a circumbinary disc with the central binary system leads to shrinking or expansion of the binary orbit has attracted considerable interest as it impacts the evolution of binary black holes and stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Wilhelm Kley , Hugo Audiffren , Christoph M. Schäfer

We perform SPH simulations to study precession and changes in alignment between the circumprimary disc and the binary orbit in misaligned binary systems. We find that the precession process can be described by the rigid-disc approximation,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 Krisada Rawiraswattana , David A. Hubber , Simon P. Goodwin

Doppler tomography is a method to compute the emissivity distribution within the co-rotating frames of binary stars from observations of their emission line profiles at multiple orbital phases. A key assumption of the method as it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 T. R. Marsh

Massive binary evolution models are needed to predict massive star populations in star forming galaxies, the supernova diversity, and the number and properties of gravitational wave sources. Such models are often computed using so called…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Christoph Schürmann , Norbert Langer , Joana A. Kramer , Pablo Marchant , Chen Wang , Koushik Sen

Motivated by the nonlinear star formation efficiency found in recent numerical simulations by a number of workers, we perform high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations of star formation in self-gravitating turbulently driven gas.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-01 Daniel W. Murray , Philip Chang , Norman W. Murray , John Pittman

We investigated the statistical properties of both cool and hot starspots in eclipsing binary stars. The starspot and binary parameters for contact and semi-detached systems were collected from literature, which were determined on the basis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Shinjirou Kouzuma

In this paper we study the evolution of viscous and radiative circumstellar disks under the influence of a companion star. We focus on the eccentric {\gamma} Cephei and {\alpha} Centauri system as examples and compare the disk quantities…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-23 Tobias W. A. Müller , Wilhelm Kley

The formation of binary stars is highly influenced by magnetic fields, which play a crucial role in transporting angular momentum. We conducted three-dimensional numerical simulations of binary star accretion via a circumbinary disk, taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Tomoaki Matsumoto