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Revisiting the picture of circumbinary disc truncation
Enrico Ragusa, Elliot Lynch, Guillaume Laibe +1
Circumbinary discs are observed to develop central cavities carved by the gravitational influence of the binary. Analytical estimates of cavity sizes predict truncation at $\sim 2…
Forbidden line diagnostics of photoevaporative disc winds
G. Ballabio, R. D. Alexander, C. J. Clarke
Photoevaporation driven by high energy radiation from the central star plays an important role in the evolution of protoplanetary discs. Photoevaporative winds have been unambiguou…
A self-similar solution for thermal disc winds
C. J. Clarke, R. D. Alexander
We derive a self-similar description for the 2D streamline topology and flow structure of an axi-symmetric, thermally driven wind originating from a disc in which the density is a…
There might be giants: unseen Jupiter-mass planets as sculptors of tightly-packed planetary systems
T. O. Hands, R. D. Alexander
The limited completeness of the Kepler sample for planets with orbital periods 1 yr leaves open the possibility that exoplanetary systems may host undetected giant planet…
Hubble Space Telescope observations of the NUV transit of WASP-12b
J. D. Nichols, G. A. Wynn, M. Goad +6
We present new observations of four closely-spaced NUV transits of the hot Jupiter-like exoplanet WASP-12b using HST/COS, significantly increasing the phase resolution of the obser…
Understanding the assembly of Kepler's compact planetary systems
T. O. Hands, R. D. Alexander, W. Dehnen
The Kepler mission has recently discovered a number of exoplanetary systems, such as Kepler-11 and Kepler-32, in which ensembles of several planets are found in very closely packed…
Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc
R. D. Alexander, S. L. Smedley, S. Nayakshin +1
We study the dynamical evolution of stars and gas close to the centre of the Milky Way. Any plausible means of forming the young stars observed at the Galactic Centre leaves behind…