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防止环双星吸积模拟中的异常力矩

Preventing Anomalous Torques in Circumbinary Accretion Simulations

Alexander Dittmann, Geoffrey Ryan

摘要:

由于环双星盘具有很强的非线性,数值实验是研究环双星盘演化的主要方法。许多环双星模拟还需要使用数值质量汇:源项,通过以给定的速率去除气体来防止气体在模拟的点质量周围非物理地积累。然而,在从这种模拟中得出物理结论时必须特别小心,以确保结果不会受到数值伪影的影响。我们演示了如何使用改进的汇方法减少了一些这些潜在的偏见,在垂直集成的模拟纵横比0.1吸积盘周围的质量比在0.1和1之间的二进制文件。具体地说,我们证明了不减小气体相对于吸积体的角动量的下沉项:1)减小了双星上的力矩、双星组分间吸积分布和双星半长轴演化等物理量对下沉率的依赖; 2)减小下沉率对双星周围吸积盘结构的影响; 3)改变双星上吸积的推断变化,使其在时间上更有规律。我们还调查了其他潜在的系统误差的来源,如精确的重力软化和以前采用的简化粘性应力张量。由于双星的轨道演化强烈依赖于双星组件之间的扭矩和质量分布,所采用的汇方法可以对双星的轨道演化产生显着影响。

英文摘要:

Numerical experiments are the primary method of studying the evolution of circumbinary disks due to the strong nonlinearities involved. Many circumbinary simulations also require the use of numerical mass sinks: source terms which prevent gas from unphysically accumulating around the simulated point masses by removing gas at a given rate. However, special care must be taken when drawing physical conclusions from such simulations to ensure that results are not biased by numerical artifacts. We demonstrate how the use of improved sink methods reduces some of these potential biases in vertically-integrated simulations of aspect ratio 0.1 accretion disks around binaries with mass ratios between 0.1 and 1. Specifically, we show that sink terms that do not reduce the angular momentum of gas relative to the accreting object: 1) reduce the dependence on the sink rate of physical quantities such as the torque on the binary, distribution of accretion between binary components, and evolution of the binary semi-major axis; 2) reduce the degree to which the sink rate affects the structure of the accretion disks around each binary component; 3) alter the inferred variability of accretion onto the binary, making it more regular in time. We also investigate other potential sources of systematic error, such as the precise from of gravitational softening and previously employed simplifications to the viscous stress tensor. Because of the strong dependence of the orbital evolution of the binary on both the torque and distribution of mass between binary components, the sink methods employed can have a significant effect on the inferred orbital evolution of the binary.

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