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Waves launched from the neutron star surface or inner magnetosphere propagate through the magnetosphere as small perturbations, but can grow relative to the background magnetic field and steepen into ``monster shocks'' -- ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Michael P. Grehan , Bart Ripperda , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Christopher Thompson , Elias R. Most

We perform direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional freely decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. For helical magnetic fields an inverse cascade effect is observed in which power is transfered from smaller scales to larger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mattias Christensson , Mark Hindmarsh , Axel Brandenburg

Recent observations of neutral Galactic interstellar medium showed that filamentary structures of HI clouds are aligned with the interstellar magnetic field. Many interesting applications are proposed based on the alignment such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional magnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations conducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er , Lorenzo Sironi , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Convection is one of the most important mixing processes in stellar interiors. Hydrodynamic mass entrainment can bring fresh fuel from neighboring stable layers into a convection zone, modifying the structure and evolution of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 G. Leidi , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. K. Röpke

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a key ingredient of galaxies and their evolution, consisting of multiphase, turbulent dust and gas. Some of the star-forming regions in our Galaxy originate from cloud-cloud and wind-cloud collisions, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Sebastián Navarrete , Bryan J. Pinargote , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

Composed of shocked solar wind, the Earth's magnetosheath serves as a natural laboratory to study the transition of turbulence from low Alfv{\'e}n Mach number, $M_\mathrm{A}$, to high $M_\mathrm{A}$. The simultaneous observations of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Hui Li , Wence Jiang , Chi Wang , Daniel Verscharen , Chen Zeng , C. T. Russell , B. Giles , J. L. Burch

Turbulent diffuse molecular clouds can exhibit complicated morphologies caused by the interactions among radiation, chemistry, fluids, and fields. We performed full 3D simulations for turbulent diffuse molecular interstellar media,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Nannan Yue , Lile Wang , Thomas Bisbas , Donghui Quan , Di Li

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regulates the transfer of energy from large to small scales in many astrophysical systems, including the solar atmosphere. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations with unprecedentedly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Timothy A. Sandstrom , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We argue that the recently reported Kolmogorov-like magnetic turbulence spectrum in the cool core of the Hydra A galaxy cluster can be understood by kinetic energy injection by active galaxies that drives a turbulent non-helical magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. A. Ensslin , C. Vogt

We perform three-dimensional radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations and investigate the impact of the Hall effect on the angular momentum evolution in the collapsing cloud cores in which the magnetic field $\magB$ and angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Satoshi Okuzumi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We use a one dimensional hydrodynamical code to study the evolution of spherically symmetric perturbations in the framework of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The code evolves spherical gaseous shells in an expanding Universe by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adi Nusser , Etienne Pointecouteau

Magnetic fields are an important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) and exhibit strongly varying field strengths and a non-trivial correlation with the gas density. Its dynamical impact varies between individual regions of the ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-20 Philipp Girichidis

The nonlinear evolution of unstable C-type shocks in weakly ionized plasmas is studied by means of time-dependent magnetohydrodynamical simulations. This study is limited to shocks in magnetically dominated plasmas (in which the Alfven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James M. Stone

The interaction between a supersonic stellar wind and a (super-)sonic interstellar wind has recently been viewed with new interest. We here first give an overview of the modeling, which includes the heliosphere as an example of a special…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Klaus Scherer , Horst Fichtner , Jens Kleimann , Tobias Wiengarten , Dominik J. Bomans , Kerstin Weis

Motivated by observations of outflowing galaxies, we investigate the combined impact of magnetic fields and radiative cooling on the evolution of cold clouds embedded in a hot wind. We perform a collection of three-dimensional adaptive mesh…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 J'Neil Cottle , Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Bruggen , Wladimir Banda-Barragan , Christoph Federrath

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

We investigate how different magnetohydrodynamic models of propagation of a weak (Mach number ~1.2) shock in the core of a galaxy cluster affect its observational appearance, using the Perseus cluster as our fiducial model. In particular,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 S. Komarov , C. Reynolds , E. Churazov

We investigate the evolution of interfaces among phases of the interstellar medium with different temperature. It is found that, for some initial conditions, the dynamical effects related to conductive fronts are very important even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , Yuri Shchekinov

We investigate the interaction between a shock-driven hot wind and a cold multi-cloud layer, for conditions commonly found in interstellar and circumgalactic gas. We present a method for identifying distinct clouds using a…