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The effect of magnetic shear and shear flow on local gravitationally induced instabilities is investigated. A simple model is constructed allowing for an arbitrary entropy gradient and a shear plasma flow in the Boussinesq approximation. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gregory G. Howes , Steven C. Cowley , James C. McWilliams

We demonstrate that in a chiral plasma subject to an external magnetic field, the chiral vortical effect can induce a new type of magnetohydrodynamic instability which we refer to as the {\it chiral magnetovortical instability}. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-14 Shuai Wang , Xu-Guang Huang

We analyze the stability of a thin plasma disk which is rotating around a compact astrophysical object and is embedded in the strong magnetic field of such a source. The aim of this study is the determination of a new type of unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini , Nakia Carlevaro , Alessio Franco

We consider the possible mechanical instability of an ultracold Fermi gas due to the attractive interactions between fermions of different species. We investigate how the instability, predicted by a mean field calculation for an homogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Leyronas , R. Combescot

A linear stability analysis has been performed onto a self-gravitating magnetized gas disk bounded by external pressure. The resulting dispersion relation is fully explained by three kinds of instability: a Parker-type instability driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Min Lee , Seung Soo Hong

A new neutrino magnetohydrodynamics (NMHD) model is formulated, where the effects of the charged weak current on the electron-ion magnetohydrodynamic fluid are taken into account. The model incorporates in a systematic way the role of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Fernando Haas , Kellen Alves Pascoal , José Tito Mendonça

A new transverse mode in a two-stream magnetized quantum plasma is studied by means of a quantum hydrodynamic model, under non-relativistic and ideal Fermi gas assumptions. It is found that Fermi pressure effects induce a minimum cutoff…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Fernando Haas , Bengt Eliasson

The fundamental higher-order Landau plasma modes are known to be generally heavily damped. We show that these modes for the ion component in a weakly ionized plasma can be substantially modified by ion-neutral collisions and a dc electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Roman Kompaneets , Alexei V. Ivlev , Sergey V. Vladimirov , Gregor E. Morfill

In this paper, we revisit the governing equations for linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities existing within a magnetized, plane-parallel, self-gravitating slab. Our approach allows for fully non-uniformly magnetized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 J. -B. Durrive , R. Keppens , M. Langer

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

We investigate thermal instability in an electron-ion magnetized plasma relevant to galaxy clusters, solar corona, and other two-component astrophysical objects. We apply the multicomponent plasma approach when the dynamics of all the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

The formation of self-consistent crystalline structure is a well-known phenomenon in complex plasmas. In most experiments the pressure and rf power are the main controlling parameters in determining the phase of the system. We have studied…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 S. Jaiswal , T. Hall , S. LeBlanc , R. Mukherjee , E. Thomas

The electromagnetic instabilities excited by the temperature anisotropy have been always one of the interesting issues in real high-density physical systems, where the relativistic and quantum effects due to spin can be important. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 M. Mahdavi , H. Khanzadeh

We study the linear stability of weakly magnetized differentially rotating plasmas in both collisionless kinetic theory and Braginskii's theory of collisional, magnetized plasmas. We focus on the very weakly magnetized limit that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Eliot Quataert , Tobias Heinemann , Anatoly Spitkovsky

An analysis of the gravitational instability in presence of dissipative effects is addressed. In particular, the standard Jeans Mechanism and the generalization in treating the Universe expansion are both analyzed when bulk viscosity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani

In this paper we study the gravitational instability in presence of viscosity. In particular, the standard Jeans Mechanism is analyzed taking into account bulk-viscosity effects in the first-order Newtonian dynamics. We show how the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-28 Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani

Traditionally the effects of MHD instabilities and micro-instabilities on plasma confinement are investigated separately. However, these two instabilities often occur simultaneously, with the overlap of the dynamics on a broad range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-07-06 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuri Miura

The filamentation instability of the electromagnetic (EM) beam in an underdense plasma with high level of degeneracy is examined by means of the momentum equation, continuity equation and Maxwell's equations. It has been demonstrated that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 R. M. Goshadze , V. I. Berezhiani , Z. Osmanov

The concept of Jeans gravitational instability is rediscussed in the framework of nonextensive statistics and its associated kinetic theory. A simple analytical formula generalizing the Jeans criterion is derived by assuming that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. S. Lima , R. Silva , J. Santos