ONE OF THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE KEPLER MISSION WAS THE DISCOVERY OF TRANSITING CIRCUMBINARY PLANETS. SUCH PLANETS LIKELY FORM IN CIRCUMBINARY DISKS. OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT SUCH DISKS MAY FORM MISALIGNED WITH RESPECT TO THE ORBITAL PLANE OF THE CENTRAL BINARY. WE PROPOSE TO FIRST STUDY THE EVOLUTION OF SUCH DISKS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF POSSIBLE INITIAL MASSES AND INCLINATIONS AND FOR A VARIETY OF ECCENTRICITIES OF THE CENTRAL BINARY. FOR SMALL INCLINATIONS EVOLUTION ULTIMATELY TOWARDS COPLANARITY IS EXPECTED. HOWEVER FOR ECCENTRIC ORBIT BINARIES THE EVOLUTION INVOLVES SECULAR TILT OSCILLATIONS TOWARDS AND AWAY FROM COPLANARITY BEFORE COPLANARITY IS ACHIEVED. FOR LARGER INCLINATIONS WE HAVE RECENTLY FOUND THAT AN INITIALLY MODERATELY MISALIGNED CIRCUMBINARY PROTOPLANETARY DISK AROUND AN ECCENTRIC BINARY CAN EVOLVE TO AN ORIENTATION THAT IS PERPENDICULAR TO THE ORBITAL PLANE OF THE BINARY (POLAR ALIGNMENT). WE PROPOSE TO CONTINUE OUR STUDIES OF THE TILT DISK EVOLUTION OF CIRCUMBINARY DISKS. FOR PLANETS FORMED IN SUCH DISKS WE WILL INVESTIGATE THEIR ORBITAL EVOLUTION DUE TO PLANET-DISK AND PLANET-BINARY INTERACTIONS. WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE THESE PROCESSES FOR A RANGE OF BINARY AND DISK PARAMETERS BY MEANS OF ANALYTIC ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS. THE RESULTS WILL PROVIDE INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGIN AND CURRENT STATE OF CIRCUMBINARY PLANETS.
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