Warping and tearing of misaligned circumbinary disks around eccentric supermassive black hole binaries
Warping and tearing of misaligned circumbinary disks around eccentric supermassive black hole binaries
We study the warping and tearing of a geometrically thin, non-self-gravitating disk surrounding binary supermassive black holes on an eccentric orbit. The circumbinary disk is significantly misaligned with the binary orbital plane, and is subject to the time-dependent tidal torques. In principle, such a disk is warped and precesses, and …