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 …

Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems

SH Albrecht, RI Dawson, JN Winn - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The rotation of a star and the revolutions of its planets are not necessarily aligned. This
article reviews the measurement techniques, key findings, and theoretical interpretations …

The origin and evolution of multiple star systems

SSR Offner, M Moe, KM Kratter, SI Sadavoy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Observational advances over the last decade have enabled high-resolution, interferometric
studies of forming multiple systems, statistical surveys of multiplicity in star-forming regions …

A review of quasi-periodic oscillations from black hole X-ray binaries: observation and theory

AR Ingram, SE Motta - New Astronomy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems routinely show quasi-periodic oscillations
(QPOs) in their X-ray flux. Despite being strong, easily measurable signals, their physical …

Formation of precessing jets by tilted black hole discs in 3D general relativistic MHD simulations

M Liska, C Hesp, A Tchekhovskoy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Gas falling into a black hole (BH) from large distances is unaware of BH spin direction, and
misalignment between the accretion disc and BH spin is expected to be common. However …

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 …

On the diffusive propagation of warps in thin accretion discs

G Lodato, DJ Price - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we revisit the issue of the propagation of warps in thin and viscous accretion
discs. In this regime, warps are known to propagate diffusively, with a diffusion coefficient …

The formation of low-mass binary star systems via turbulent fragmentation

SSR Offner, KM Kratter, CD Matzner… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We characterize the infall rate onto protostellar systems forming in self-gravitating radiation-
hydrodynamics simulations. Using two dimensionless parameters to determine the disks' …

Tearing up the disc: misaligned accretion on to a binary

C Nixon, A King, D Price - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In a recent paper, we have shown that the evolution of a misaligned disc around a spinning
black hole can result in tearing the disc into many distinct planes. Tearing discs with random …

Precessing warped accretion discs in X-ray binaries

GI Ogilvie, G Dubus - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
We study the radiation-driven warping of accretion discs in the context of X-ray binaries. The
latest evolutionary equations are adopted, which extend the classical alpha theory to time …