Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Gravitational instabilities in circumstellar disks

K Kratter, G Lodato - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Star and planet formation are the complex outcomes of gravitational collapse and angular
momentum transport mediated by protostellar and protoplanetary disks. In this review, we …

Hydrodynamics of circumbinary accretion: angular momentum transfer and binary orbital evolution

DJ Muñoz, R Miranda, D Lai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We carry out 2D viscous hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary accretion using the
moving-mesh code AREPO. We self-consistently compute the accretion flow over a wide …

Dynamics of protoplanetary disks

PJ Armitage - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Protoplanetary disks are quasi-steady structures whose evolution and dispersal determine
the environment for planet formation. I review the theory of protoplanetary disk evolution and …

How do massive black holes get their gas?

PF Hopkins, E Quataert - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We use multiscale smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations to study the inflow of gas
from galactic scales (∼ 10 kpc) down to≲ 0.1 pc, at which point the gas begins to resemble …

Phantom: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics

DJ Price, J Wurster, TS Tricco, C Nixon… - Publications of the …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular, and low-memory smoothed particle
hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for …

Spiral arms and a massive dust disk with non-Keplerian kinematics: possible evidence for gravitational instability in the disk of Elias 2–27

T Paneque-Carreño, LM Pérez, M Benisty… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
To determine the origin of the spiral structure observed in the dust continuum emission of
Elias 2–27 we analyze multiwavelength continuum ALMA data with a resolution of∼ 0 farcs …

Shadows cast on the transition disk of hd 135344b-multiwavelength vlt/sphere polarimetric differential imaging

T Stolker, C Dominik, H Avenhaus, M Min… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. The protoplanetary disk around the F-type star HD 135344B (SAO 206462) is in a
transition stage and shows many intriguing structures both in scattered light and thermal …

An analytic model of angular momentum transport by gravitational torques: from galaxies to massive black holes

PF Hopkins, E Quataert - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We present analytic calculations of angular momentum transport and gas inflow in galaxies,
from scales of∼ kpc to deep inside the potential of a central massive black hole (BH). We …

The runts of the litter: why planets formed through gravitational instability can only be failed binary stars

KM Kratter, RA Murray-Clay… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent direct imaging discoveries suggest a new class of massive, distant planets around A
stars. These widely separated giants have been interpreted as signs of planet formation …