Observational Signatures of Dust Traffic Jams in Polar-Aligning Circumbinary Disks
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| author | Smallwood, Jeremy L. Nealon, Rebecca Yen, Hsi-Wei Pinte, Christophe Longarini, Cristiano Aly, Hossam Lin, Min-Kai |
| author_facet | Smallwood, Jeremy L. Nealon, Rebecca Yen, Hsi-Wei Pinte, Christophe Longarini, Cristiano Aly, Hossam Lin, Min-Kai |
| contents | Misaligned circumbinary disks will produce dust traffic jams during alignment or anti-alignment to the binary orbital plane. We conduct a hydrodynamical simulation of an initially misaligned circumbinary disk undergoing polar alignment with multiple dust species. Due to differential precession between the gas and dust components, multiple dust traffic jams are produced within the disk during polar alignment. The radial locations of the dust traffic jams depend on the Stokes number of the grains, which depends on grain size. We compute the dust temperature structure using post-processing radiative transfer to produce continuum images at cm-wavelengths. Multiple distinct rings emerge in the continuum images, corresponding to the dust traffic jams. The angular resolution of upcoming observations from SKA and ngVLA will be sufficient to detect centimeter-sized grains in protoplanetary disks and resolve the widths of dust traffic jams. Therefore, dust traffic jams resulting from the differential precession of gas and dust in misaligned circumbinary disks will be a prime target for more extended wavelength observations. |
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| spellingShingle | Observational Signatures of Dust Traffic Jams in Polar-Aligning Circumbinary Disks Smallwood, Jeremy L. Nealon, Rebecca Yen, Hsi-Wei Pinte, Christophe Longarini, Cristiano Aly, Hossam Lin, Min-Kai Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Misaligned circumbinary disks will produce dust traffic jams during alignment or anti-alignment to the binary orbital plane. We conduct a hydrodynamical simulation of an initially misaligned circumbinary disk undergoing polar alignment with multiple dust species. Due to differential precession between the gas and dust components, multiple dust traffic jams are produced within the disk during polar alignment. The radial locations of the dust traffic jams depend on the Stokes number of the grains, which depends on grain size. We compute the dust temperature structure using post-processing radiative transfer to produce continuum images at cm-wavelengths. Multiple distinct rings emerge in the continuum images, corresponding to the dust traffic jams. The angular resolution of upcoming observations from SKA and ngVLA will be sufficient to detect centimeter-sized grains in protoplanetary disks and resolve the widths of dust traffic jams. Therefore, dust traffic jams resulting from the differential precession of gas and dust in misaligned circumbinary disks will be a prime target for more extended wavelength observations. |
| title | Observational Signatures of Dust Traffic Jams in Polar-Aligning Circumbinary Disks |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12614 |