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Binary-Disk Interaction. II. Gap-opening Criteria for Unequal-mass Binaries

  • Authors: Luciano del Valle and Andrés Escala

del Valle & Escala 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 780 84.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Same as Figure  1, but with q-dependent thresholds for our ellipsoidal gap-opening criterion. The dashed curves are the threshold between the opened simulations and the closed simulations predicted by our flat spiral gap-opening criterion (see Section 5). For all panels, the flat spiral gap-opening criterion successfully separates the closed simulations from the opened simulations. In (a), for the equal-mass binaries ( q = 1) both the flat spiral gap-opening criterion and the ellipsoidal gap-opening criterion successfully separate the closed from the opened simulations.

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