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Evidence of fast variations in the Earth's core field are seen both in magnetic observatory and satellite records. We present here how they have been identified at the Earth's surface from ground-based observatory records and how their…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 V. Lesur , N. Gillet , M. D. Hammer , M. Mandea

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is considered to be a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. In contrast to accretion disks, radial buoyancy driven by entropy and lepton fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller

We consider a Taylor-Dean-type flow of an electrically conducting liquid in an annulus between two infinitely long perfectly conducting cylinders subject to a generally helical magnetic field. The cylinders are electrically connected…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-01 Jānis Priede

By constructing a global model based on 3D local magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations, we show that the disk wind driven by magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a significant role in the dispersal of the gas component of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Takayuki Muto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The outer protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can be subject to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and the vertical shear instability (VSI). While both processes can drive turbulence in the disk, existing numerical simulations have studied…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

Magnetars are highly magnetized neutron stars whose magnetic dipole ranges from $10^{14}$ to $10^{15}$ G. The MRI is considered to be a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast-rotating protoneutron stars and form…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Alexis Reboul-Salze , Jérôme Guilet , Raphaël Raynaud , Matteo Bugli

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a weakly ionized, differentially rotating, magnetized plasma disk is investigated in the multi-fluid framework. The disk is threaded by a uniform vertical magnetic field and charge is carried by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

We assess the importance of the magneto-rotational instability in core-collapse supernovae by an analysis of the growth rates of unstable modes in typical post-collapse systems and by numerical simulations of simplified models. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-18 M. Obergaulinger , P. Cerdà-Duràn , E. Müller , M. A. Aloy

All experiments, which have been proposed so far to model the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the laboratory, involve a Couette flow of liquid metals in a rotating annulus. All liquid metals have small magnetic Prandtl numbers, Pm,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Koichi Noguchi , Vladimir I. Pariev

Debris discs are commonly swathed in gas which can be observed in UV, in fine structure lines in FIR, and in resolved maps of CO emission. Carbon and oxygen are overabundant in such gas, but it is severely depleted in hydrogen. As a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Quentin Kral , Henrik Latter

The magneto-rotational decay instability (MRDI) of thin Keplerian discs threaded by poloidal magnetic fields is introduced and studied. The linear magnetohydrodynamic problem decouples into eigenvalue problems for in-plane slow- and fast-…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Yuri M. Shtemler , Michael Mond , Edward Liverts

We address the question whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can operate in the near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of the Sun and how it affects the interaction with the dynamo process. Using hydromagnetic mean-field simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Axel Brandenburg , Gustav Larsson , Fabio Del Sordo , Petri J. Käpylä

We analyze the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) effects on gravitational collapse and its influence on the instability critical scale. In particular, we study an axisymmetric nonstratified differentially rotating cloud, embedded in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Giovanni Montani , Giovanni Palermo , Nakia Carlevaro

The linear stability of global non-axisymmetric modes in differentially rotating, magnetized, non-ideal plasma is crucial for understanding turbulence and transport phenomena. We investigate the competition between the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Alexander Haywood , Fatima Ebrahimi

The mechanism behind angular momentum transport in protoplanetary disks, and whether this transport is turbulent in nature, is a fundamental issue in planet formation studies. Recent ALMA observations have suggested that turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , Kevin M. Flaherty , A. Meredith Hughes

We examine the properties of strongly magnetized accretion discs in a global framework, with particular focus on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities such as the magnetorotational instability (MRI). Work by Pessah and Psaltis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-13 Upasana Das , Mitchell C. Begelman , Geoffroy Lesur

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism for transportation of angular momentum and dissipation of energy within hot, ionized accretion discs. This instability is produced through the interactions of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Oscar M. Pimentel , P. Chris Fragile , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Bridget Ierace , Deepika Bollimpalli

The evolution of warped disks is governed by internal, oscillatory shear flows driven by their distorted geometry. However, these flows are known to be vigorously unstable to a hydrodynamic parametric instability. In many warped systems,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Callum W. Fairbairn , James M. Stone

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been suggested to have an important role on the dynamics of accretion disks. We investigate MRI as an alternative way for guiding the plasma from the disk to the funnel flow at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-08 S. Dogan , E. R. Pekunlu

We examine global incompressible axisymmetric perturbations of a differentially rotating MHD plasma with radial density gradients. It is shown that the standard magnetorotational instability, (MRI) criterion drawn from the local dispersion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jesse Pino , S. M. Mahajan