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Both multiphase gas and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in astrophysics. However, the influence of magnetic fields on mixing of the different phases is still largely unexplored. In this study, we use both turbulent radiative mixing layer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-17 Hitesh Kishore Das , Max Gronke

I review recent results derived from numerical simulations of the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM), in particular concerning the nature and formation of turbulent clouds, methods for comparing the structure in simulations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni

We conduct a series of magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) disturbed by exploding stars. Each star deposits a randomly oriented, dipolar magnetic field into ISM. The simulations are performed in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 K. Kowalik , M. Hanasz

I discuss the role of self-gravity and radiative heating and cooling in shaping the nature of the turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy. The heating and cooling cause it to be highly compressible, and, in some regimes of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-22 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

We discuss the role of turbulence in cloud and star formation, as observed in numerical simulations of the interstellar medium. Turbulent compression at the interfaces of colliding gas streams is responsible for the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , T. Passot , A. Pouquet

Cosmic ray propagation is determined by the properties of interstellar turbulence. The multiphase nature of interstellar medium (ISM) and diversity of driving mechanisms give rise to spatial variation of turbulence properties. Meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Huirong Yan

Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to decay rapidly within a flow crossing time irrespective of the degree of magnetization. However, this general consensus of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Chang-Goo Kim , Shantanu Basu

Observations of non-thermal emission from several supernova remnants suggest that magnetic fields close to the blastwave are much stronger than would be naively expected from simple shock compression of the field permeating the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Luke O'C. Drury , Turlough P. Downes

Turbulence in the weakly collisional intracluster medium of galaxies (ICM) is able to generate strong thermal velocity anisotropies in the ions (with respect to the local magnetic field direction), if the magnetic moment of the particles is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 R. Santos-Lima , H. Yan , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields is still a mystery and several scenarios have been proposed so far: among them, primordial phase transitions, structure formation shocks and galactic outflows. In this work we investigate how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serena Bertone , Corina Vogt , Torsten Ensslin

We use three-dimensional MHD simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction to study turbulence due to the magnetothermal instability (MTI) in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. The MTI grows on timescales of ~1 Gyr and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian J. Parrish , Michael McCourt , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

Supernovae are the dominant energy source for driving turbulence within the interstellar plasma. Until recently, their effects on magnetic field amplification in disk galaxies remained a matter of speculation. By means of self-consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Gressel , Udo Ziegler , Detlef Elstner , Günther Rüdiger

High-resolution, 2-D hydrodynamical simulations with a large dynamic range are performed to study the turbulent nature of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galactic disks. The simulations are global, where the self-gravity of the ISM,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Keiichi Wada , Gerhardt Meurer , Colin A. Norman

Recent cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have suggested that the first stars in the universe often form as binary or multiple systems. However, previous studies typically overlooked the potential influence of magnetic fields during this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

The origin and structure of the magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies is investigated with 3D, non-ideal, compressible MHD simulations, including stratification in the galactic gravity field, differential rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-01 F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , G. R. Sarson , M. J. Mantere

We explore the structure and statistics of multiphase, magnetized ISM turbulence in the local Milky Way by means of driven periodic box numerical MHD simulations. Using the higher order-accurate piecewise-parabolic method on a local stencil…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-19 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

Barred galaxies are known to possess magnetic fields that may affect the properties of bar substructures such as dust lanes and nuclear rings. We use two-dimensional high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Woong-Tae Kim , James M. Stone

Theoretical approaches to low-frequency magnetized turbulence in collisionless and weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas are reviewed. The proper starting point for an analytical description of these plasmas is kinetic theory, not fluid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , W. Dorland

Gravitational instability (GI) features in several aspects of protostellar disk evolution, most notably in angular momentum transport, fragmentation, and the outbursts exemplified by FU Ori and EX Lupi systems. The outer regions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 A. Riols , H. Latter

Plasma turbulence occurs ubiquitously in space and astrophysical plasmas, mediating the nonlinear transfer of energy from large-scale electromagnetic fields and plasma flows to small scales at which the energy may be ultimately converted to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Gregory G. Howes , Sofiane Bourouaine