par Watkins, S.;Bhattal, A. S.;Boffin, Henri 
;Francis, N.;Whitworth, A. P.
Référence Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 300, 4, page (1205-1213)
Publication Publié, 1998-11
;Francis, N.;Whitworth, A. P.Référence Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 300, 4, page (1205-1213)
Publication Publié, 1998-11
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | It is expected that an average protostar will undergo at least one impulsive interaction with a neighbouring protostar whilst a large fraction of its mass is still in a massive, extended disc. Such interactions must have a significant impact upon the evolution of the protostars and their discs. We have carried out a series of simulations of coplanar encounters between two stars, each possessing a massive circumstellar disc, using an SPH code that models gravitational, hydrodynamic and viscous forces. We find that during a coplanar encounter, disc material is swept up into a shock layer between the two interacting stars, and the layer then fragments to produce new protostellar condensations. The truncated remains of the discs may subsequently fragment; and the outer regions of the discs may be thrown off to form circumbinary disc-like structures around the stars. Thus coplanar disc-disc encounters lead efficiently to the formation of multiple star systems and small-N clusters, including substellar objects. |
