Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-11-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
13 pages, 5 figures, accepted by RAA
Scientific paper
In this paper, the effect of self-gravity on the protoplanetary discs is investigated. The mechanisms of angular momentum transport and energy dissipation are assumed to be the viscosity due to turbulence in the accretion disc. The energy equation is considered in situation that the released energy by viscosity dissipation is balanced with cooling processes. The viscosity is obtained by equality of dissipation and cooling functions, and is used for angular momentum equation. The cooling rate of the flow is calculated by a prescription, $d u/d t=-u/\tau_{cool}$, that $u$ and $\tau_{cool}$ are internal energy and cooling timescale, respectively. The ratio of local cooling to dynamical timescales $\Omega \tau_{cool}$ is assumed as a constant and also as a function of local temperature. The solutions for protoplanetary discs show that in situation of $\Omega \tau_{cool} = constant$, the disc does not show any gravitational instability in small radii for a typically mass accretion rate, $\dot{M} = 10^{-6} M_{\odot} yr^{-1}$, while by choosing $\Omega \tau_{cool}$ as a function of temperature, the gravitational instability for this amount of mass accretion rate or even less can occur in small radii. Also, by study of the viscous parameter $\alpha$, we find that the strength of turbulence in the inner part of self-gravitating protoplanetary discs is very low. These results are qualitatively consistent with direct numerical simulations of protoplanetary discs.
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