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Based on the exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation the self-consistent two-fluid model of the pulsar magnetosphere is developed. We concentrate on the low-mass limit of the model, taking into account the radiation damping. As a…

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A variety of studies of magnetised plasma turbulence invoke theories for the advection of a passive scalar by turbulent fluctuations. Examples include modelling the electron density fluctuations in the interstellar medium, understanding the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Joanne Mason , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo , Jean Carlos Perez

Clear evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of magnetic fluctuations in the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hantao Ji , Stephen Terry , Masaaki Yamada , Russell Kulsrud , Aleksey Kuritsyn , Yang Ren

It is pointed out that the unmagnetized inhomogeneous plasmas can support a low frequency electromagnetic ion wave as a normal mode like Alfven wave of magnetized plasmas. But this is a coupled mode produced by the mixing of longitudinal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Hamid Saleem

The radio, optical, X-ray and gamma-ray nebulae that surround many pulsars are thought to arise from synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. The energy powering this emission, as well as the magnetic fields and relativistic particles, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 J. G. Kirk

Dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave energy has been proposed as a viable heating mechanism in the solar chromospheric plasma. Here, we use a simplified one-dimensional model of the chromosphere to theoretically investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Roberto Soler , Marc Carbonell , Jose Luis Ballester

Following the basic principles of a charge separated pulsar magnetosphere \citep{goldreich1969}, we consider the magnetosphere be stationary in space, instead of corotating, and the electric field be uploaded from the potential distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 K. H. Tsui

We study the wave propagation modes in the relativistic streaming pair plasma of the magnetospheres of pulsars and magnetars, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization. We show that the combined plasma and vacuum polarization effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Wang , Dong Lai

Magnetohydrodynamic waves interact with structured plasmas and reveal the internal magnetic and thermal structures therein, thereby having seismological applications in the solar atmosphere. We investigate the evolution of fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Yuan , D. J. Pascoe , V. M. Nakariakov , B. Li , R. Keppens

The emission from the relativistically hot plasmas of high-energy astrophysical synchrotron sources, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) in particular, depends on the level of magnetic fluctuations. Recent observations by the X-ray polarimeter IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Landi

The Eulerian space-time correlation of strong Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in strongly magnetized plasmas is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations of Reduced MHD turbulence and phenomenological modeling. Two new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Jean C. Perez , Sofiane Bourouaine

In a previous work [16], a new model was introduced, taking into account the role of the Fermi weak force due to neutrinos coupled to magnetohydrodynamic plasmas. The resulting neutrino-magnetohydrodynamics was investigated in a particular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Fernando Haas , Kellen Alves Pascoal

At present, many works about magneto-hydrodynamics wave diagnostics in magnetic flux tubes are based on some pioneer works not considering the contributions of magnetic twist. Other works considered the effect on magneto-hydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Wei Wu , Robert Sych , Jie Chen , Jiang-tao Su

Kinetic Alfv\'en waves represent an important subject in space plasma physics, since they are thought to play a crucial role in the development of the turbulent energy cascade in the solar wind plasma at short wavelengths (of the order of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. L. Vasconez , F. Valentini , E. Camporeale , P. Veltri

We analyse the effects of the propagating Alfv\'en waves, arising due to non-zero mean magnetic fields, on the nonequilibrium steady states of three-dimensional (3d) homogeneous Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. In particular, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhik Basu , Jayanta K Bhattacharjee

We propose a phenomenological theory of strong incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong large-scale external magnetic field. We argue that in the inertial range of scales, magnetic-field and velocity-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev

MHD equations are presented for the mixture of superfluid neutrons, superconducting protons, and normal electrons believed to exist in the outer cores of neutron stars. The dissipative effects of electron viscosity and mutual friction due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gregory Mendell

Resonant scattering of fast particles off low frequency plasma waves is a major process determining transport characteristics of energetic particles in the heliosphere and contributing to their acceleration. Usually, only Alfv\'en waves are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Cedric Schreiner , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier

In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, the large-scale magnetic field sets a preferred local direction for the small-scale dynamics, altering the statistics of turbulence from the isotropic case. This happens even in the absence of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Joanne Mason

Previous studies revealed that electromagnetic cyclotron waves (ECWs) near the proton cyclotron frequency exist widely in the solar wind, and the majority of ECWs are left-handed (LH) polarized waves. Using the magnetic field data from the…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 G. Q. Zhao , H. Q. Feng , D. J. Wu , Y. H. Chu , J. Huang