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Pulsar bow-shock nebulae are a class of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) that form when the pulsar wind is confined by the ram pressure of the ambient medium, and are usually associated with old pulsars, that have already emerged from the…

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We propose that galactic shocks propagating through interstellar density fluctuations provide a mechanism for the intermittent replenishment, or "pumping," of the supersonic motions and internal density enhancements observed pervasively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Paul Kornreich , John Scalo

Asteroid shape inversion using photometric data has been a key area of study in planetary science and astronomical research.However, the current methods for asteroid shape inversion require extensive iterative calculations, making the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 YiJun Tang , ChenChen Ying , ChengZhe Xia , XiaoMing Zhang , XiaoJun Jiang

Runaway stars form bow shocks by sweeping up interstellar matter in their direction of motion. Theoretical models predict a spectrally wide non-thermal component reaching up to gamma-ray energies at a flux level detectable with current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Schulz , M. Haupt , S. Klepser , S. Ohm

We address the shocks from acoustic pulses and wave trains in general one-dimensional flows, with an emphasis on the application to super-Eddington outbursts in massive stars. Using approximate adiabatic invariants, we generalize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Christopher D. Matzner , Stephen Ro

We consider the Navier-Stokes system solution, based at parametric representation of desired function. This solution is unique and it show the velocity of a stream element as its density structure [{\rho}_S (x,y,z,t);{\rho}^\to_L (x,y,z,t)]…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Alexandr Fridrikson , Marina Kasatochkina

Internal dynamics and kinematics of galaxies have imprints on the line-of-sight velocity distribution~(LOSVD). Gauss-Hermite parametrisation allows one to identify the kinematics features of the system in terms of skewness~($h_3$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-09 Daria Zakharova , Iliya S. Tikhonenko , Natalia Ya. Sotnikova , A. Smirnov

A set of travelling wave solutions to a hyperbolic generalization of the convection-reaction-diffusion is studied by the methods of local nonlinear alnalysis and numerical simulation. Special attention is paid to displaying appearance of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-17 Vsevolod Vladimirov

A large class of stellar systems (e.g., planetary nebulae (PNe), supernova envelopes, LBV stars, young stars in formation) shows structures in their accretion/ejection phase that have similar characteristics. In particular, one currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel da Rocha , Laurent Nottale

We consider the problem of uniform steady supersonic Euler flows passing a straight conical body with attack angles, and study Radon measure solutions describing the infinite-thin shock layers, particularly for the Chaplygin gas and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Aifang Qu , Xueying Su , Hairong Yuan

The formation of stars occurs in the dense molecular cloud phase of the interstellar medium. Observations and numerical simulations of molecular clouds have shown that supersonic magnetised turbulence plays a key role for the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Andrew Lehmann , Christoph Federrath , Mark Wardle

A model based on disk-stability criteria to determine the number of spiral arms of a general disk galaxy with an exponential disk, a bulge and a dark halo described by a Hernquist model is presented. The multifold rotational symmetry of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Elena D'Onghia

We consider the Burgers equation posed on the outer communication region of a Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. Assuming spherical symmetry for the fluid flow under consideration, we study the propagation and interaction of shock waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Yuri Bakhtin , Philippe G. LeFloch

Context: Runaway stars produce bowshocks that are usually observed at infrared (IR) wavelengths. Non-thermal radio emission has been detected so far only from the bowshock of BD+43{\deg}3654, whereas the detection of non-thermal radiation…

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To model the propagation of large water waves and associated loads applied to offshore structures, scientists and engineers have a need of fast and accurate models. A wide range of models have been developped in order to predict wave-fields…

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Hele-Shaw flow at vanishing surface tension is ill-defined. In finite time, the flow develops cusp-like singularities. We show that the ill-defined problem admits a weak {\it dispersive} solution when singularities give rise to a graph of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-06-02 Seung-Yeop Lee , Razvan Teodorescu , Paul Wiegmann

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies are a significant astrophysical systematic affecting cosmological constraints from weak gravitational lensing. Obtaining numerical predictions from hydrodynamical simulations of expected survey volumes is…

In this thesis we study field theoretic viewpoints on certain fluid mechanical phenomena. In the Higgs mechanism, the weak gauge bosons acquire masses by interacting with a scalar field, leading to a vector boson mass matrix. On the other…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sachin Shyam Phatak

Hydrodynamic jets, underdense with respect to their environment by a factor of up to 10,000, were computed in axisymmetry as well as in 3D. They finally reached a size of up to 220 jet radii, corresponding to a 100 kpc sized radio galaxy.…

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