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When magnetohydrodynamic turbulence evolves in the presence of a large-scale mean magnetic field, an anisotropy develops relative to that preferred direction. The well-known tendency is to develop stronger gradients perpendicular to the…

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It is shown that a first-order relativistic perturbation theory for the open, flat or closed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe admits one, and only one, gauge-invariant quantity which describes the perturbation to the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-25 P. G. Miedema

The applicability of a linearized perturbed FLRW metric to the late, lumpy universe has been subject to debate. We consider in an elementary way the Newtonian limit of the Einstein equations with this ansatz for the case of structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-18 Andreas Finke

The turbulence driven by gravitational instabilities (GIs) can amplify magnetic fields in massive gaseous disks. This GI dynamo may appear in young circumstellar disks, whose weak ionization challenges other amplification routes, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 William Béthune , Henrik Latter

We show that the difference between the theoretically expected and measured by WMAP amplitude of the quadrupole fluctuations of CMB can be related to the impact of the anisotropic curvature of the homogeneous universe dominated by the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Demiański , A. G. Doroshkevich

Density perturbations in the cosmic microwave background within general $f(R,\phi)$ models of gravity are investigated. The general dynamical equations for the tensor and scalar modes in any $f(R,\phi)$ gravity model are derived. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Fayçal Hammad

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

The axes of gyroscopes experimentally define non-rotating frames. But what physical cause governs the time-evolution of gyroscope axes? Starting from an unperturbed, spatially flat FRW cosmology, we consider cosmological vorticity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Schmid

We study the Jeans instability of a self-gravitating fluid in the context of alternative gravitational theories. Our formulation accommodates arbitrary corrections to the Newtonian potential, providing a versatile approach to analyzing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Ryan Khaled , Kamel Ourabah

Cosmological solitons are widely predicted by scenarios of the early Universe. In this work, we investigate the isotropic background and anisotropies of gravitational waves (GWs) induced by soliton isocurvature perturbations, especially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Di Luo , Yan-Heng Yu , Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang

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

We investigate anisotropic fluid cosmology in a situation where the spacetime metric back-reacts in a local, time-dependent way to the presence of inhomogeneities. We derive exact solutions to the Einstein field equations describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Mariano Cadoni , Andrea P. Sanna

We investigate the global nonaxisymmetric Rossby vortex instability in a differentially rotating, compressible magnetized accretion disk with radial density structures. Equilibrium magnetic fields are assumed to have only the toroidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Cong Yu , Hui Li

We study field equations for a weak anisotropic model on the tangent Lorentz bundle $TM$ of a spacetime manifold. A geometrical extension of General Relativity (GR) is considered by introducing the concept of local anisotropy, i.e. a direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-01 A. Triantafyllopoulos , P. C. Stavrinos

In a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model with zero spatial curvature, we consider the interaction of the gravitational waves with the plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field. Using the relativistic hydromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 D. B. Papadopoulos

We generalize the total angular momentum method for computing Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies to Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spaces with arbitrary geometries. This unifies the treatment of temperature and polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Wayne Hu , Uros Seljak , Martin White , Matias Zaldarriaga

Aside from primordial gravitational instability of the cosmological fluid, various mechanisms have been proposed to generate large-scale structure at relatively late times, including, e.g., ``late-time'' cosmological phase transitions. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrew H. Jaffe , Albert Stebbins , Joshua A. Frieman

The evolution of inhomogeneities in a spherical collapse model is studied by expanding the Einstein equation in powers of inverse radial parameter. In the linear regime, the density contrast is obtained for flat, closed and open universes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elcio Abdalla , Roya Mohayaee

This paper investigates the energy bounds in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity with anisotropic background. Locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type ${I}$ cosmological model in $f(R,G)$ gravity is considered to meet this aim. Primarily, a…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 M. Farasat Shamir , Ayesha Komal

We investigate the global stability of a differentially rotating fluid shell threaded by vertical and azimuthal magnetic fields to linear, axisymmetric perturbations. This system, which models a thick accretion disk in the vicinity of its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Charles Curry , Ralph E. Pudritz