English
Related papers

Related papers: The Parker instability in axisymmetric filaments: …

200 papers

We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

A linear stability analysis of a multi-component and magnetized Galactic disk model is presented. The disk model uses the observed stratifications for the gas density and gravitational acceleration at the solar neighborhood and, in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Kim , Jose Franco , S. S. Hong , Alfredo Santillan , Marco A. Martos

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

We model the Parker instability in vertically stratified isothermal gas using non-ideal MHD three-dimensional simulations. Rotation, especially differential, more strongly and diversely affects the nonlinear state than the linear stage…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-08 Devika Tharakkal , Anvar Shukurov , Frederick A. Gent , Graeme R. Sarson , Andrew Snodin

Using an isothermal MHD code, we have performed three-dimensional, high-resolution simulations of the Parker instability. The initial equilibrium system is composed of exponentially-decreasing isothermal gas and magnetic field (along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jongsoo Kim , S. S. Hong , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

We examine the evolution of the Parker instability in galactic disks using 3D numerical simulations. We consider a local Cartesian box section of a galactic disk, where gas, magnetic fields and cosmic rays are all initially in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov , Paul J. Bushby , Andrew Fletcher

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

We present a detailed study of the growth of the Parker instability in a differentially rotating disk embedded in an azimuthal equilibrium magnetic field, such as the interstellar gas or an accretion disk. Basic properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Foglizzo , M. Tagger

This study investigates Parker instability in an interstellar medium (ISM) near the Galactic plane using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Parker instability arises from the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-06 Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko , Chih-Yueh Wang

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

The aim of this paper is to clarify the stabilities of neutron stars with strong toroidal magnetic fields against non-axisymmetric perturbation. The motivation comes from the fact that super magnetized neutron stars of $\sim 10^{15}$G,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-21 Kenta Kiuchi , Shijun Yoshida , Masaru Shibata

We investigate the effects of rotation on the evolution of the Parker instability in an exponentially-stratified and uniformly-rotating magnetized gas disk by carrying out three-dimensional numerical simulations with an isothermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

The effect of the magnetic skew on the Parker instability is investigated by means of the linear stability analysis for a gravitationally stratified gas layer permeated by a horizontal magnetic field. When the magnetic field is skewed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Hanawa , R. Matsumoto , K. Shibata

We analyze an axisymmetric equilibrium of a plasma endowed with toroidal and poloidal velocity fields, with the aim to characterize the influence of the global motion on the morphology of the magnetic confinement. We construct our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Giovanni Montani , Matteo Del Prete

To examine how non-uniform nature of the Galactic gravity might affect length and time scales of the Parker instability, we took three models of gravity, uniform, linear and realistic ones. To make comparisons of the three gravity models on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jongsoo Kim , S. S. Hong

The Parker instability is considered to play important roles in the evolution of the interstellar medium. Most studies on the development of the instability so far have been based on an initial equilibrium system with a uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu

We investigate the nonlinear effects of uniform rotation on the Parker instability in an exponentially-stratified disk through high-resolution simulations. During the linear stage, the speed of gas motion is subsonic and the evolution with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

We present 2D, ideal-MHD numerical simulations of the Parker instability in a multi-component warm disk model. The calculations were done using two numerical codes with different algorithms, TVD and ZEUS-3D. The outcome of the numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alfredo Santillan , Jongsoo Kim , Jose Franco , Marco Martos , S. S. Hong , Dongsu Ryu

Astrophysical discs which are sufficiently massive and cool are linearly unstable to the formation of axisymmetric structures. In practice, linearly stable discs of surface density slightly below the threshold needed for this instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Joshua J. Brown , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We study global non-axisymmetric stationary perturbations of aligned and unaligned logarithmic spiral configurations in an axisymmetric composite differentially rotating disc system of scale-free stellar and isopedically magnetized gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Xiang-Gruess , Y. -Q. Lou , W. J. Duschl
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›