The Kozai-Lidov mechanism in hydrodynamical disks

Rebecca G. Martin; Chris Nixon; Stephen H. Lubow; Philip J. Armitage; Daniel J. Price; Suzan Doǧan; Andrew King

doi:10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L33

The Kozai-Lidov mechanism in hydrodynamical disks

Rebecca G. Martin
, Chris Nixon
, Stephen H. Lubow
, Philip J. Armitage
, Daniel J. Price
, Suzan Doǧan
, Andrew King

Physics and Astronomy

University of Colorado Boulder
Space Telescope Science Institute
Monash University
Ege University
University of Leicester

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Abstract

We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to show that a highly misaligned accretion disk around one component of a binary system can exhibit global Kozai-Lidov cycles, where the inclination and eccentricity of the disk are interchanged periodically. This has important implications for accreting systems on all scales, for example, the formation of planets and satellites in circumstellar and circumplanetary disks, outbursts in X-ray binary systems, and accretion onto supermassive black holes.

Original language	English
Article number	L33
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	792
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L33
State	Published - Sep 10 2014

Keywords

accretion accretion disks
binaries: general
black hole physics
hydrodynamics
planets and satellites: formation
stars: emission-line Be

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