Tearing up the disc: misaligned accretion on to a binary

By C. Nixon, A. King, Daniel J. Price. 2013

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Support for this work was provided by NAS through the Einstein Fellowship Programme, grant PF2130098. Research in theoretical astrophysics at Leicester is supported by an STFC Consolidated Grant. We used SPLASH (Price 2007) for the visualization. The calculations for this paper were performed on the Complexity node of the DiRAC2 HPC Facility which is jointly funded by STFC, the department of Business Innovation and Skills and the University of Leicester.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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BINARY BLACK HOLE ACCRETION FROM A CIRCUMBINARY DISK: GAS DYNAMICS INSIDE THE CENTRAL CAVITY (2013, result): “Recent work done with SPH simulations of misaligned (or retrograde) disks indicate that dramatic differences may emerge when the binary is inclined with respect to the disk (Nixon et al. 2013; Roedig & Sesana 2013), but have yet to be compared with results of finite-volume simulations.”
Phantom: A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics Code for Astrophysics (2017, methodology): “…to represent the binary so that there is feedback between the binary and the disc (we have used a live binary in all of our simulations to date, e.g. Nixon et al. 2013; Facchini et al. 2013; Martin et al. 2014a,b; Doğan et al. 2015; Ragusa et al. 2016, 2017), but the binary potential remains…”
On the diversity and statistical properties of protostellar discs (2018, background): “…that recent hydrodynamical simulations of discs around black holes that are misaligned with the spin of the black hole, or circumbinary discs that are strongly misaligned with the binary’s orbital plane show that these discs may tear into discrete precessing rings of gas (Nixon et al. 2012, 2013).”