Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008mnras.388.1372o&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 388, Issue 3, pp. 1372-1380.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Accretion, Accretion Discs, Hydrodynamics, Circumstellar Matter, Stars: Emission-Line, Be
Scientific paper
One-armed oscillation modes in the circumstellar discs of Be stars may explain the cyclical variations in their emission lines. We show that a 3D effect, involving vertical motion and neglected in previous treatments, profoundly influences the dynamics. Using a secular theory of eccentric discs that reduces the problem to a second-order differential equation, we show that confined prograde modes are obtained for all reasonable disc temperatures and stellar rotation rates. We confirm these results using a numerical analysis of the full set of linearized equations for 3D isothermal discs including viscous terms that couple the horizontal motions at different altitudes. In order to make these modes grow, viscous damping must be overcome by an excitation mechanism such as viscous overstability.
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