Ruiqi Yang (杨锐祺), Jeremy L. Smallwood, Hongping Deng (邓洪平), Ya-Ping Li (李亚平), Alessia Franchini, Ruobing Dong (董若冰), and Shang-Fei Liu (刘尚飞)
Apr 15, 2026
We show that, circumbinary accretion might serve as a potential observational diagnostic for binary-disc misalignment, and has implications for circumbinary planets formation.
Ruiqi Yang (杨锐祺), Jeremy L. Smallwood, Shang-Fei Liu (刘尚飞), and Alessia Franchini
2026 · The Astrophysical Journal (accepted)
Three-dimensional simulations of an eccentric, equal-mass binary show how the timing of its two accretion pulses changes as the circumbinary disk is tilted.
Two-dimensional viscous circumbinary disk simulations exploring binary eccentricity and thermal relaxation.
Publications
- Ruiqi Yang, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Hongping Deng, Ya-Ping Li, Alessia Franchini, Ruobing Dong, and Shang-Fei Liu. “Misaligned circumbinary discs around unequal-Mass eccentric binaries: alignment, morphology, and binary accretion variability.”. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stag731.
- Ruiqi Yang, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Shang-Fei Liu, and Alessia Franchini. “Pulsed Accretion onto Eccentric Binaries in Highly Misaligned Circumbinary Disks.” 2026, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. arXiv:2609.30782.