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The observable effects of tidally induced warps in protostellar discs

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posted on 2016-05-16, 08:33 authored by Chris J. Nixon, J. E. Pringle
We consider the response of a protostellar disc to a tidally induced warp and the resultant changes in the spectral energy distribution (SED). We argue that for typical protostellar disc parameters the warp is communicated through the disc in a wave-like fashion. We find that the main effects of the warp tend to be at large radii (R≳ 30 au) and, for sufficiently small viscosity, can be quite long-lived. This can result in non-uniform illumination of the disc at these radii and can induce significant changes to the SED at wavelengths λ≳ 100 μm.

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Citation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010, 403 (4), pp. 1887-1893

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Publisher

Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

issn

0035-8711

eissn

1365-2966

Acceptance date

2009-12-23

Copyright date

2010

Available date

2016-05-16

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http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/403/4/1887

Language

en