THE KOZAI-LIDOV MECHANISM IN HYDRODYNAMICAL DISKS
Articles > Article · 2014
Authors: Rebecca G. Martın, Chris Nixon, Stephen H. Lubow, Philip J. Armıtage, Daniel J. Prıce, Suzan DOĞAN, Andrew King
The Astrophysical Journal, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2014, vol 792, pp L33-L33
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/l33
Summary
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.