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In this paper, we present a numerical simulation of an impulsively driven chromospheric jet in the solar atmosphere using the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations coupled with frequency- and angle-averaged radiation transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 J. J. González-Avilés

We investigate the evolution of a disk wind into a collimated jet under the influence of magnetic diffusivity. Using the ZEUS-3D code in the axisymmetry option we solve the time-dependent resistive MHD equations for a model setup of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cemeljic , Ch. Fendt

In weakly collisional extragalactic plasmas such as the intracluster medium, viscous stress and the rate of change of the magnetic-field strength are proportional to the local pressure anisotropy, so subject to constraints imposed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Federico Mogavero , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Star formation in our Galaxy occurs in molecular clouds that are self-gravitating, highly turbulent, and magnetized. We study the conditions under which cloud cores inherit large-scale magnetic field morphologies and how the field is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Chris McKee , Volker Springel

Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

We simulate the Galactic Center nonthermal filaments as magnetized wakes formed dynamically from amplification of a weak (tens of $\mu$G) global magnetic field through the interaction of molecular clouds with a Galactic Center wind. One of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Russell B. Dahlburg , Giorgio Einaudi , T. N. LaRosa , Steven N. Shore

We perform uniformly sampled large-scale cosmological simulations including magnetic fields with the moving mesh code AREPO. We run two sets of MHD simulations: one including adiabatic gas physics only; the other featuring the fiducial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor

Young stellar objects/planetary nebula outflow anisotropies usually involve wind-wind interactions and magnetic collimation, but detailed structures of wind and magnetic fields inside collimation region remain undetermined. We numerically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Tao Tao , Guangyue Hu , Ruxin Li , Zhizhan Xu , Jian Zheng

Energy deposition by active galactic nuclei jets into the ambient medium can affect galaxy formation and evolution, the cooling of gas flows at the centres of galaxy clusters, and the growth of the supermassive black holes. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg

Magnetic reconnection, a plasma process converting magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy, is often invoked to explain magnetic energy releases powering high-energy flares in astrophysical sources including pulsar wind nebulae and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Spin spirals form inside the magnetic layers of antiferromagnetic and noncollinearly-coupled magnetic multilayers in the presence of an external magnetic field. This spin structure can be modeled to extract the direct exchange stiffness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elliot Wadge , Afan Terko , George Lertzman-Lepofsky , Paul Omelchenko , Bret Heinrich , Manuel Rojas , Erol Girt

We revisit the radiative properties of 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) two-temperature magnetically arrested disk (MAD) models in which electrons are heated by a magnetic turbulent cascade. We focus on studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 M. Moscibrodzka

In this paper we present steady-state RMHD simulations that include a mass-load term to study the process of jet deceleration. The mass-load mimics the injection of a proton-electron plasma from stellar winds within the host galaxy into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Andreu Anglés-Castillo , Manel Perucho , José María Martí , Robert A. Laing

The impact of magnetic geometry on zonal-flow generation in ion temperature gradient driven turbulence is investigated by means of linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. The modulation of geodesic curvature on various configurations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Motoki Nakata , Seikichi Matsuoka

We investigate the process of formation and subsequent evolution of prominence plasma in a filament channel and its overlying arcade. We construct a three-dimensional time-dependent model of an intermediate quiescent prominence. We combine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Luna , J. T. Karpen , C. R. DeVore

When a laser field is incident on an overdense plasma it is unable to penetrate inside it. Nevertheless, a part of its energy gets transferred to the electrons through a variety of mechanisms (e.g. vacuum and $\vec{J}\times \vec{B}) heating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

We report on results of high resolution two fluid non-linear simulations of the Rayleigh Taylor Instability (RTI) at the interface between a solar prominence and the corona. These follow results reported earlier by Popescu Braileanu et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko

Magnetic clouds (MCs) are "magnetized plasma clouds" moving in the solar wind. MCs transport magnetic flux and helicity away from the Sun. These structures are not stationary but feature temporal evolution. Commonly, simplified MC models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Giorgi Dalakishvili , Andria Rogava , Giovanni Lapenta , Stefaan Poedts

The study of hot plasma expansion in a magnetic field is of interest for many laboratory and astrophysical applications. In this paper, an exactly solvable analytical model is proposed for an expanding resistive plasma in an external…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 H. B. Nersisyan , K. A. Sargsyan , D. A. Osipyan , M. V. Sargsyan

Disk accretion onto a magnetized star occurs in a variety of astrophysical contexts, from young stars to X-ray pulsars. The magnetohydrodynamic interaction between the stellar field and the accreting matter can have a strong effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Arieh Konigl , Christof Litwin