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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…
Misaligned accretion on to supermassive black hole binaries
Alex Dunhill, Richard Alexander, Chris Nixon +1
We present the results of high-resolution numerical simulations of gas clouds falling onto binary supermassive black holes to form circumbinary accretion discs, with both prograde…
The Kozai-Lidov Mechanism in Hydrodynamical Disks
Rebecca G. Martin, Chris Nixon, Stephen H. Lubow +4
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, w…
Giant Outbursts in Be/X-ray Binaries
Rebecca G. Martin, Chris Nixon, Philip J. Armitage +2
Be/X-ray binary systems exhibit both periodic (Type I) X-ray outbursts and giant (Type II) outbursts, whose origin has remained elusive. We suggest that Type II X-ray outbursts occ…