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On the conditions for warping and breaking protoplanetary discs
Alison K. Young, Struan Stevenson, C. J. Nixon +1
Recent observations demonstrate that misalignments and other out-of-plane structures are common in protoplanetary discs. Many of these have been linked to a central host binary wit…
Emission from elliptical streams of dusty debris around white dwarfs
C. J. Nixon, J. E. Pringle, E. R. Coughlin +2
White dwarfs are routinely observed to have polluted atmospheres, and sometimes significant infrared excesses, that indicate ongoing accretion of circumstellar dust and rocky debri…
On the role of magnetic fields in star formation
C. J. Nixon, J. E. Pringle
Magnetic fields are observed in star forming regions. However simulations of the late stages of star formation that do not include magnetic fields provide a good fit to the propert…
The galactic rate of second and third generation disc and planet formation
Miriam Hogg, Graham Wynn, Chris Nixon
We investigate the formation of discs within binary systems where at least one component has left the main sequence. In particular we calculate the occurrence rates of systems whic…
Tidal Torques on Misaligned Disks in Binary Systems
Stephen H. Lubow, Rebecca G. Martin, Chris Nixon
We extend previous studies of the tidal truncation of coplanar disks in binary systems to the more general case of noncoplanar disks. As in the prograde coplanar case, Lindblad res…
The observable effects of tidally induced warps in protostellar discs
C. J. Nixon, J. E. Pringle
We consider the response of a protostellar disc to a tidally induced warp and the resultant changes in the spectral energy distribution (SED). We argue that for typical protostella…