The effect of an isothermal atmosphere on the propagation of three-dimensional waves in a thermally stratified accretion disk

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1998-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805254v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/307037

We extend our analysis of the three-dimensional response of a vertically polytropic disk to tidal forcing at Lindblad resonances by including the effects of a disk atmosphere. The atmosphere is modeled as an isothermal layer that joins smoothly on to an underlying polytropic layer. The launched wave progressively enters the atmosphere as it propagates away from the resonance. The wave never propagates vertically, however, and the wave energy rises to a (finite) characteristic height in the atmosphere. The increase of wave amplitude associated with this process of wave channeling is reduced by the effect of the atmosphere. For waves of large azimuthal mode number m generated by giant planets embedded in a disk, the increase in wave amplitude is still substantial enough to be likely to dissipate the wave energy by shocks for even modest optical depths (tau greater than about 10) over a radial distance of a few times the disk thickness. For low-m waves generated in circumstellar disks in binary stars, the effects of wave channeling are less important and the level of wave nonlinearity increases by less than a factor of 10 in going from the disk edge to the disk center. For circumbinary disks, the effects of wave channeling remain important, even for modest values of optical depth.

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