Abstract
We use three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to show that a highly
misaligned accretion disk around one component of a binary system can exhibit
global Kozai-Lidov cycles, where the inclination and eccentricity of the disk
are interchanged periodically. This has important implications for accreting
systems on all scales, for example, the formation of planets and satellites in
circumstellar and circumplanetary disks, outbursts in X-ray binary systems and
accretion on to supermassive black holes.
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