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Accretion disks around compact stars are formed due to turbulence driven by magnetorotational instability. Despite over thirty years of numerous computational studies on magnetorotational turbulence, the properties of fluctuations in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Yohei Kawazura , Shigeo S. Kimura

Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic turbulence are: weakness of collisional dissipation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Olga Alexandrova , Christopher H. K. Chen , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Timothy S. Horbury , Stuart D. Bale

Observations of radio signals from distant pulsars provide a valuable tool for investigation of interstellar turbulence. The time-shapes of the signals are the result of pulse broadening by the fluctuating electron density in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl R. Gwinn

Solar wind magnetic fluctuation spectra exhibit a significant power law steepening at frequencies f>1Hz. The origin of this multi-scaling is investigated through dispersive Hall magnetohydrodynamics. We perform three-dimensional numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Galtier , E. Buchlin

Supernova explosions inject a considerable amount of energy into the interstellar medium (ISM) in regions with high to moderate star formation rates. In order to assess whether the driving of turbulence by supernovae is also important in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Sami Dib , C. Jakob Walcher , Mark Heyer , Edouard Audit , Laurent Loinard

We study the variation of average powers and spectral indices of electric field fluctuations with respect to the angle between average flow direction and the mean magnetic field in solar wind turbulence. Cluster spacecraft data from the…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Deepali Deepali , Supratik Banerjee

The polarized diffuse Galactic radio emission, mainly synchrotron emission, is expected to be one of the most relevant source of astrophysical contamination at low and moderate multipoles in cosmic microwave background polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Burigana , L. La Porta

Narrow, elongated regions of very low polarized intensity -- so-called canals -- have recently been observed by several authors at decimeter wavelengths in various directions in the Milky Way, but their origin remains enigmatic. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anvar Shukurov , Elly M. Berkhuijsen

In this paper, we investigate the statistical features of the fully developed, forced, rapidly rotating, {turbulent} system using numerical simulations, and model {the} energy {spectrum} that {fits} well with the numerical data. Among the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-05 Manohar K. Sharma , Mahendra K. Verma , Sagar Chakraborty

The flux of turbulent kinetic energy from large to small spatial scales is measured in a small domain B of varying size R. The probability distribution function of the flux is obtained using a time-local version of Kolmogorov's four-fifths…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mahesh Bandi , Walter Goldburg , John Cressman , Alain Pumir

In order to investigate the universality of magnetic turbulence in space plasmas we analyze seven time periods in the free solar wind of different origin, slow or fast, and under different plasma conditions. The orientation of magnetic…

Measurements of the energy spectrum and of the vortex-density fluctuation spectrum in superfluid turbulence seem to contradict each other. Using a numerical model, we show that at each instance of time the total vortex line density can be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-05 Andrew W. Baggaley , Jason Laurie , Carlo F. Barenghi

Recent measurements of cosmic gamma ray intensities up to TeV energies have been used to estimate the spectral shape of the parent cosmic ray particles present in the interstellar medium. The case is made for the particle spectrum in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Anatoly D. Erlykin , Arnold W. Wolfendale

We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the injection scale of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Plasma turbulence cascading from MHD to kinetic scales in the heliospheric plasma is believed to play a key role in coronal heating and fast solar wind acceleration, but the properties of the turbulence remain poorly constrained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Alexander Pitna

A model-independent first-principle first-order investigation of the shape of turbulent density-power spectra in the ion-inertial range of the solar wind at 1 AU is presented. De-magnetised ions in the ion-inertial range of quasi-neutral…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann , Yasuhito Narita

In this paper, we investigate inertially forced isothermal quantum turbulence (coflow of normal and superfluid components) at temperatures of 1.6 and 2 K. The experiments are carried out in a large optical cryostat, where quasi-isotropic,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Clément Bret , Pantxo Diribarne , Jérôme Duplat , Bernard Rousset

Turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical systems like galaxies, galaxy clusters and possibly even the IGM filaments. We study fluctuation dynamo action in turbulent systems focusing on one observational signature; the Faraday rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study the magnetic fields in galaxy clusters through Faraday rotation measurements crossing systems in different dynamical states. We confirm that magnetic fields are present in those systems and analyze the difference between relaxed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 Federico A. Stasyszyn , Martín de los Rios

Magnetic fields permeate the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way, and are essential to explain the dynamical evolution and current shape of the Galaxy. Magnetic fields reveal themselves via their influence on the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Marijke Haverkorn , Philipp Frank , Nergis C. Raycheva , Torsten A. Enßlin