Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-17-2021

Publication Title

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume

508

Issue

1

First page number:

392

Last page number:

407

Abstract

GW Ori is a hierarchical triple star system with a misaligned circumtriple protoplanetary disc. Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations have identified three dust rings with a prominent gap at 100 au and misalignments between each of the rings. A break in the gas disc may be driven by the torque from either the triple star system or a planet that is massive enough to carve a gap in the disc. Once the disc is broken, the rings nodally precess on different time-scales and become misaligned. We investigate the origins of the dust rings by means of N-body integrations and 3D hydrodynamic simulations. We find that for observationally motivated parameters of protoplanetary discs, the disc does not break due to the torque from the star system. We suggest that the presence of a massive planet (or planets) in the disc separates the inner and outer discs. We conclude that the disc breaking in GW Ori is likely caused by undetected planets – the first planet(s) in a circumtriple orbit.

Keywords

Accretion; Accretion discs; Hydrodynamics; Planet–disc interactions; Stars: individual: GW Ori

Disciplines

Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy | The Sun and the Solar System

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5258 KB

Language

English

Comments

This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2021 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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