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2023MNRAS.523.4353E - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 523, 4353-4364 (2023/August-2)

On the frequencies of circumbinary discs in protostellar systems.

ELSENDER D., BATE M.R., LAKELAND B.S., JENSEN E.L.N. and LUBOW S.H.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the analysis of circumbinary (CB) discs formed in a radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation. We consider both pure binary stars and pairs within triple and quadruple systems. The protostellar systems are all young (ages < 105 yrs). We find that the systems that host a CB disc have a median separation of ≈11 au, and the median characteristic radius of the discs is ≈64 au. We find that 89 per cent of pure binaries with semimajor axes a < 1 au have a CB disc, and the occurrence rate of CB discs is bimodal with log-separation in pure binaries with a second peak at a ≈ 50 au. Systems with a > 100 au almost never have a CB disc. The median size of a CB disc is between ≈5 and 6 a depending on the order of the system, with higher order systems having larger discs relative to binary separation. We find the underlying distributions of mutual inclination between CB discs and binary orbits from the simulation are in good agreement with those of observed CB discs.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - hydrodynamics - methods: numerical - planets and satellites: formation - binaries: general

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