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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 880, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab2fd8
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accretion; accretion disks; binaries: general; hydrodynamics; planets and satellites: formation
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- NASA [NNX17AB96G, 80NSSC19K0443]
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We investigate the misalignment of the circumbinary disk around the binary HD 98800 BaBb with eccentricity e similar or equal to 0.8. Kennedy et al. observed the disk to be either at an inclination of 48 degrees or polar aligned to the binary orbital plane. Their simulations showed that alignment from 48 degrees to a polar configuration can take place on a shorter timescale than the age of this system. We perform hydrodynamical numerical simulations in order to estimate the cavity size carved by the eccentric binary for different disk inclinations as an independent check of polar alignment. Resonance theory suggests that torques on the inner parts of a polar disk around such a highly eccentric binary are much weaker than in the coplanar case, indicating a significantly smaller central cavity than in the coplanar case. We show that the inferred inner radius (from carbon monoxide measurements) of the accretion disk around BaBb can exclude the possibility of it being mildly inclined with respect to the binary orbital plane and therefore confirm the polar configuration. This study constitutes an important diagnostic for misaligned circumbinary disks, since it potentially allows us to infer the disk inclination from observed gas disk inner radii.
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