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The mechanisms of angular momentum transport and level of turbulence in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are crucial for understanding many aspects of planet formation. In the recent years, it has been realized that the magneto-rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

Cold ($T\sim 10^{4} \ \mathrm{K}$) gas is very commonly found in both galactic and cluster halos. There is no clear consensus on its origin. Such gas could be uplifted from the central galaxy by galactic or AGN winds. Alternatively, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-10 Suoqing Ji , S. Peng Oh , Michael McCourt

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

This paper studies the instability of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems on a sphere using analytical methods. The underlying flow consists of a zonal differential rotation and a toroidal magnetic field is present. Semicircle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chen Wang , Andrew D. Gilbert , Joanne Mason

We investigate a role of the Hall-effect in the current sheet evolution and onset of the secondary tearing (plasmoid) instability in the framework of the incompressible resistive Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The model under…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 G. Vekstein , K. Kusano

We analyze the linear stability of a dilute, hot plasma, taking into account the effects of stratification and anisotropic thermal conduction. The work is motivated by attempts to understand the dynamics of the intracluster medium in galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-04 Steven A. Balbus , Christopher S. Reynolds

Recent developments in non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary disks suggest that instead of being traditional turbulent (viscous) accretion disks, they have a largely laminar flow with accretion driven by large-scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Colin P. McNally , Richard P. Nelson , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Oliver Gressel , Wladimir Lyra

Role of the dissipative invariants in isotropic homogeneous MHD turbulence has been studied using the distributed chaos approach and results of direct numerical simulations. Effects of weak imposed mean magnetic field and magnetic fields in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 A. Bershadskii

Angular momentum in protostellar discs can be transported either radially, through turbulence induced by the magnetorotational instability (MRI), or vertically, through the torque exerted by a large-scale magnetic field. We present a model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raquel Salmeron , Arieh Königl , Mark Wardle

For a long time, gravitational instability in the disk of planetesimals has been suspected to be the main engine responsible for the beginning of dust growth, its advantage being that it provides for rapid growth. Its real importance in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Tanga , S. J. Weidenschilling , P. Michel , D. C. Richardson

Rossby wave instability (RWI) is considered the underlying mechanism to crescent-shaped azimuthal asymmetries, discovered in (sub-)millimeter dust continuum of many protoplanetary disks. Previous works on linear theory were conducted in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Can Cui , Ashutosh Tripathi , Cong Yu , Min-Kai Lin , Andrew Youdin

The stability of thin homogeneous gaseous disk with step discontinuity of velocity and density profile has been investigated analytically in the limitary case of large compressibility and numerically at spatially separated velocity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Bezborodov , J. V. Mustsevaya , V. V. Mustsevoy

Linear stability analysis of the axisymmetric interface of velocity and density discontinuity in rotating gaseous disk has been performed numerically and analytically. Physical mechanisms leading to development of centrifugal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Bezborodov , V. V. Mustsevoy

Plasma density gradients are known to drive magnetic shocks in electron-magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD). Previous slab modeling has been extended to cylindrical modeling of radially imploding shocks. The main new effect of the cylindrical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. S. Richardson , S. B. Swanekamp , S. L. Jackson , D. Mosher , P. F. Ottinger

The present study aims at studying the flow and field produced by a stellar radiative zone which is initially made to rotate differentially in the presence of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field threading the whole domain. We focus both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 L. Jouve , F. Lignières , M. Gaurat

Accretion discs that are tilted with respect to their compact hosts can warp out-of-plane through general relativistic frame-dragging. Warp influences disc dynamics in ways that have been studied extensively, especially as regards…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas Glampedakis

The planet-forming region of protoplanetary disks is cold, dense, and therefore weakly ionized. For this reason, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is thought to be mostly absent, and another mechanism has to be found to explain gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 William Béthune , Geoffroy Lesur , Jonathan Ferreira

We investigate the role of rotational instabilities in the context of black hole formation in relativistic stars. In addition to the standard scenario - an axially symmetric dynamical instability forming a horizon at the star's center - the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Burkhard Zink , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Ian Hawke , Christian D. Ott , Erik Schnetter , Ewald Mueller

In accretion disks with large-scale ordered magnetic fields, the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is marginally suppressed, so other processes may drive angular momentum transport leading to accretion. Accretion could then be driven by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Megan D. Marshall , Mark J. Avara , Jonathan C. McKinney

Stars form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. A dynamically important magnetic field presents a significant obstacle to the formation of protostellar disks. Recent studies have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Hsien Shang