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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 452, Issue 3, Pages 2396-2409Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1450
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accretion, accretion discs; hydrodynamics; binaries: general
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- NSF [AST-1211061]
- NASA [NNX14AG94G, NNX14AP31G]
- NASA [683422, NNX14AG94G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Recent observations have shown that circumstellar and circumbinary discs in young stellar binaries are often misaligned with respect to the binary orbital plane. We analyse the tidal truncation of such misaligned discs due to torques applied to the disc at the Lindblad resonances from the tidal forcings of the binary. We consider eccentric binaries with arbitrary binary-disc inclination angles. We determine the dependence of the tidal forcing strengths on the binary parameters and show that they are complicated non-monotonic functions of eccentricity and inclination. We adopt a truncation criterion determined by the balance between resonant torque and viscous torque, and use it to calculate the outer radii of circumstellar discs and the inner radii of circumbinary discs. Misaligned circumstellar discs have systematically larger outer radii than aligned discs, and are likely to fill their Roche lobes if inclined by more than 45 degrees-90 degrees, depending on the binary mass ratio and disc viscosity parameter. Misaligned circumbinary discs generally have smaller inner radii than aligned discs, but the details depend sensitively on the binary and disc parameters.
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