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Large-amplitude turbulence -- characterized by a fluctuating magnetic field component, $\delta B$, that is stronger than the mean component, $B_0$ -- is generically intermittent, populated with intense localized structures such as sharp…

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As the next step toward an improved large scale Galactic magnetic field model, we present a simple comparison of polarised synchrotron and thermal dust emission on the Galactic plane. We find that the field configuration in our previous…

Mildly relativistic shocks in magnetized electron-ion plasmas are investigated with 2D kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of unprecedentedly high resolution and large scale for conditions that may be found at internal shocks in blazar…

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

Electrostatic oscillations in cold electron-positron plasmas can be coupled to a propagating electromagnetic mode if the background magnetic field is inhomogeneous. Previous work considered this coupling in the quasi-linear regime,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. R. Stark , D. A. Diver , A. A. da Costa

We report on the observation of the self-excited dust density waves in the dc discharge complex plasma. The experiments were performed under microgravity conditions in the Plasmakristall-4 facility on board the International Space Station.…

Strongly coupled plasmas in which the interaction energy exceeds the kinetic energy play an important role in many astrophysical and laboratory systems including compact stars, laser plasmas and dusty plasmas. They exhibit many unusual…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 M. Bonitz , H. Kählert , T. Ott , H. Löwen

In collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas, such as hot accretion flows onto compact objects, the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can differ significantly from the standard (collisional) MRI. In particular, pressure anisotropy with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Matthew W. Kunz

The formation of the gigantic dust-acoustic rouge waves (DARWs) in an electron depleted unmagnetized opposite polarity dusty plasma system is theoretically observed for the first time. The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (derived by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 J. N. Sikta , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , S. Sultana , A. A. Mamun

Two-plasmon decay instability emerges as the parametric decay of laser beams into two plasma waves which is expected for hohlraum in inertial confinement fusion. The behavior of this instability in magnetized plasma is investigated in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 S. S. Ghaffari-Oskooei , A. A. Molavi Choobini

A precise theoretical investigation has been made on dust-acoustic (DA) waves (DAWs) in a four components dusty plasma medium having inertial warm adiabatic dust grains and inertialess $q$-distributed electrons as well as isothermal ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 M. H. Rahman , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

In continuation of previous work, numerical results are presented, concerning relativistically counter-streaming plasmas. Here, the relativistic mixed mode instability evolves through, and beyond, the linear saturation -- well into the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Mark Eric Dieckmann

A standard nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation has been established by using the reductive perturbation method to investigate the propagation of electrostatic dust-acoustic waves, and their modulational instability as well as the formation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 R. K. Shikha , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

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…

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We explore streaming instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with relativistic and ultra-relativistic cosmic rays in the background magnetic field in the multi-fluid approach. Cosmic rays can be both electrons and ions. The drift speed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. K. Nekrasov

In this work, we present a linear stability analysis of fully-ionized rotating plasma disks with a temperature gradient and a sub-thermal background magnetic field (oriented towards the axial direction). We describe how the plasma reacts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alessio Franco , Giovanni Montani , Nakia Carlevaro

This paper presents a detailed study on the controlled experimental observation of drift wave instabilities in an inhomogeneous Six pole cusp magnetic field generated by an in-house developed Multi-pole line cusp magnetic field device (MPD)…

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The acceleration of cosmic rays up to PeV energies at supernova remnant shocks requires an amplification of the ambient magnetic field. The amplification mechanism must operate upstream of the shock, to prevent the escape of particles from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 S. Gabici , J. C. Raymond , A. Ciardi , P. Cristofari , S. Recchia , V. Tatischeff

The nonlinear state of a high-beta collisionless plasma is investigated when an imposed linear shear amplifies or diminishes a uniform magnetic field, driving pressure anisotropies and hence firehose/mirror instabilities. The evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 S. Melville , A. A. Schekochihin , M. W. Kunz

The dusty plasma liquid formed by micro-meter sized particles negatively charged and suspended in a low pressure discharge background is a good candidate to study the generic spatio-temporal dynamical behaviors at the kinetic level through…

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