Polar alignment of a dusty circumbinary disc -- II. Application to 99 Herculis

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Main Authors: Smallwood, Jeremy L., Lin, Min-Kai, Nealon, Rebecca, Aly, Hossam, Longarini, Cristiano
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author Smallwood, Jeremy L.
Lin, Min-Kai
Nealon, Rebecca
Aly, Hossam
Longarini, Cristiano
author_facet Smallwood, Jeremy L.
Lin, Min-Kai
Nealon, Rebecca
Aly, Hossam
Longarini, Cristiano
contents We investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. In our first paper, we found as the circumbinary disc evolves towards a polar configuration perpendicular to the binary orbital plane, the differential precession between the gas and dust components leads to multiple dust traffic jams. These dust traffic jams evolve to form a coherent dust ring. In part two, we use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations of gas and dust to model an initially highly misaligned circumbinary disc around the 99 Herculis (99 Her) binary system. Our results reveal that the formation of these dust rings is observed across various disc parameters, including the disc aspect ratio, viscosity, surface density power law index, and temperature power law index. The dust traffic jams are long-lived and persist even when the disc is fully aligned polar. The midplane dust-to-gas ratio within the rings can surpass unity, which may be a favourable environment for planetesimal formation. Using 2D inviscid shearing box calculations with parameters from our 3D simulations, we find streaming instability modes with significant growth rates. The streaming instability growth timescale is less than the tilt oscillation timescale during the alignment process. Therefore, the dust ring will survive once the gas disc aligns polar, suggesting that the streaming instability may aid in forming polar planets around 99 Her.
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spellingShingle Polar alignment of a dusty circumbinary disc -- II. Application to 99 Herculis
Smallwood, Jeremy L.
Lin, Min-Kai
Nealon, Rebecca
Aly, Hossam
Longarini, Cristiano
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
We investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. In our first paper, we found as the circumbinary disc evolves towards a polar configuration perpendicular to the binary orbital plane, the differential precession between the gas and dust components leads to multiple dust traffic jams. These dust traffic jams evolve to form a coherent dust ring. In part two, we use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations of gas and dust to model an initially highly misaligned circumbinary disc around the 99 Herculis (99 Her) binary system. Our results reveal that the formation of these dust rings is observed across various disc parameters, including the disc aspect ratio, viscosity, surface density power law index, and temperature power law index. The dust traffic jams are long-lived and persist even when the disc is fully aligned polar. The midplane dust-to-gas ratio within the rings can surpass unity, which may be a favourable environment for planetesimal formation. Using 2D inviscid shearing box calculations with parameters from our 3D simulations, we find streaming instability modes with significant growth rates. The streaming instability growth timescale is less than the tilt oscillation timescale during the alignment process. Therefore, the dust ring will survive once the gas disc aligns polar, suggesting that the streaming instability may aid in forming polar planets around 99 Her.
title Polar alignment of a dusty circumbinary disc -- II. Application to 99 Herculis
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05208