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We have investigated an influence of the r-mode instability on hypercritically accreting ($\dot{M}\sim 1M_\odot {y}^{-1}$) neutron stars in close binary systems during their common envelope phases based on the scenario proposed by Bethe et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

Recent high-angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed rich information about protoplanetary disks, including ubiquitous substructures and three-dimensional gas kinematics at different emission layers. One interpretation of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

Magnetic reconnection plays a critical role in many astrophysical processes where high energy emission is observed, e.g. particle acceleration, relativistic accretion powered outflows, pulsar winds and probably in dissipation of Poynting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 G. C. Murphy , Rachid Ouyed , Guy Pelletier

Radiation-pressure instability was identified soon after the seminal classical accretion disk models of Shakura-Sunyaev and Novikov-Thorne, yet its full implications remain an active area of investigation. These models form the backbone of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Pulkit Ojha , Yuri Cavecchi , Federico Vincentelli

The magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (mRTI) is a key process in inertial confinement fusion and is thought to be widespread in the interstellar medium, where it can concentrate plasma into discrete structures. We present resistive MHD…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-25 Xin Bian , Riccardo Betti , Dongxiao Zhao , Hussein Aluie

Global three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of turbulent accretion disks are presented which start from fully equilibrium initial conditions in which the magnetic forces are accounted for and the induction equation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. R. Parkin , G. V. Bicknell

In this paper we present the first set of 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations performed with the riemann geomesh code. We study the dynamics of the magnetically channeled winds of magnetic massive stars in full three dimensions using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Sethupathy Subramanian , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Asif ud-Doula , Marc Gagné

We present results from fully general relativistic (GR), three-dimensional (3D), neutrino-radiation magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of stellar core collapse of a 20 M$_\odot$ star with spectral neutrino transport. Our focus is to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Shota Shibagaki , Takami Kuroda , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Tobias Fischer

The origins of the various outbursts of hard X-rays from magnetars (highly magnetized neutron stars) are still unknown. We identify instabilities in relativistic magnetospheres that can explain a range of X-ray flare luminosities. Crustal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , V. Mewes , B. Ripperda , E. R. Most , L. Sironi

We carry out three-dimensional MHD simulations of star formation in turbulent, magnetized clouds, including ambipolar diffusion and feedback from protostellar outflows. The calculations focus on relatively diffuse clouds threaded by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

Magnetic fields are expected to play a key role in the dynamics and the ejection mechanisms that accompany the merger of two neutron stars. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations offer a unique opportunity to unravel the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 C. Palenzuela , R. Aguilera-Miret , F. Carrasco , R. Ciolfi , J. V. Kalinani , W. Kastaun , B. Miñano , D. Viganò

Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities are investigated in a computationally tractable two-dimensional model of the solar tachocline. The model's differential rotation yields stability in the absence of a magnetic field, but if a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Abigail Plummer , J. B. Marston , S. M. Tobias

Using zoom-simulations carried out with the adaptive mesh-refinement code RAMSES with a dynamic range of up to $2^{27} \approx 1.34 \times 10^8$ we investigate the accretion profiles around six stars embedded in different environments…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Michael Kuffmeier , Søren Frimann , Sigurd S. Jensen , Troels Haugbølle

Building on our previous hydrodynamic study of the angular momenta of cloud cores formed during gravitational collapse of star-forming molecular gas in our previous work, we now examine core properties assuming ideal magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aleksandra Kuznetsova , Lee Hartmann , Fabian Heitsch

We investigate the significance of large scale azimuthal, magnetic and velocity modes for the MRI turbulence in accretion disks. We perform 3D global ideal MHD simulations of global stratified proto-planetary disk models. Our domains span…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Flock , N. Dzyurkevich , H. Klahr , N. Turner , Th. Henning

Substructures in PPDs, whose ubiquity was unveiled by recent ALMA observations, are widely discussed regarding their possible origins. We carry out global full magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations in axisymmetry, coupled with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Xiao Hu , Lile Wang , Satoshi Okuzumi , Zhaohuan Zhu

Convection has been discussed in the field of accretion discs for several decades, both as a means of angular momentum transport and also because of its role in controlling discs' vertical structure via heat transport. If the gas is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Loren E. Held , Henrik N. Latter

The MHD instabilities can generate complex field topologies even if the initial field configuration is a very simple one. We consider the stability properties of magnetic configurations containing a toroidal and an axial field. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

By performing local three-dimensional MHD simulations of stratified accretion disks, we investigate disk winds driven by MHD turbulence. Initially given weak vertical magnetic fields are effectively amplified by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. K. Suzuki , S. Inutsuka
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