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The acceleration of energetic particle transport in high amplitude magnetosonic and Alfvenic turbulence is considered using the method of Monte Carlo particle simulations, involving integration of particle equations of motion. We derive the…

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Magnetized oblique shocks are of interest in various plasmas, including in astrophysical systems, magneto-inertial confinement fusion experiments, and in aerospace applications. Through experiments on the COBRA pulsed power facility…

We analyze a suite of thin sheet magnetohydrodynamical simulations based on the formulation of Basu, Ciolek, Dapp & Wurster. These simulations allow us to examine the observational consequences to a star-forming region of varying the input…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Helen Kirk , Doug Johnstone , Shantanu Basu

Understanding the time scales for diffusive processes and their degree of anisotropy is essential for modelling cosmic-ray transport in turbulent magnetic fields. We show that the diffusion time scales are isotropic over a large range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 P. Reichherzer , J. Becker Tjus , E. G. Zweibel , L. Merten , M. J. Pueschel

With Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 observations of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, we examine the interaction of an interstellar cloud with the blast wave on physical scales of 10^15 cm. The shock front is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. A. Levenson , James R. Graham

Magnetars are a subclass of neutron stars with ultra-strong surface magnetic fields. Some magnetars exhibit persistent hard X-ray emission, characterized by power-law tails with photon indices around 1--1.5, extending from ${\sim}$10 keV to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Kun Hu , Nicholas Rackers , Alexander Y. Chen

We present detailed spectral and temporal characteristics over the whole X-ray band. For this purpose data have been used from INTEGRAL, RXTE and XMM-Newton. The INTEGRAL hard X-ray (>10 keV) time-averaged total spectrum, can be described…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. R. den Hartog , L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen

We demonstrate the utility of the bispectrum, the Fourier three-point correlation function, for studying driving scales of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the interstellar medium. We calculate the bispectrum by implementing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Michael J. O'Brien , Blakesley Burkhart , Michael J. Shelley

We observe the magnetic field morphology towards a nearby star-forming filamentary cloud, G202.3+2.5, by the JCMT/POL-2 850 {\mu}m thermal dust polarization observation with an angular resolution of 14.4" (~0.053 pc). The average magnetic…

The Ha peak intensity, velocity shift and velocity dispersion maps of the giant HII region NGC 604 in M 33, obtained by two dimensional high spatial resolution Fabry-Perot observations with TAURUS II at the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. A. Medina Tanco , N. Sabalisck , V. Jatenco-Pereira , R. Opher

We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of linearly polarized 870 $\mu$m continuum emission at a resolution of $\sim$0.2$^{\prime\prime}$ (2000 au) toward the two massive clumps, Clump 1 and Clump 4,…

We have measured the angular sizes of radio cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and analyzed their sky distributions and frequency dependencies to study synchrotron opacity in AGN jets and the strength of angular broadening in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev

Multiscaling analysis of differential flux dissipation rate of galactic cosmic rays (Carbon nuclei) is performed in the energy ranges: 56.3-73.4 Mev/nucleon and 183.1-198.7 MeV/nucleon, using the data collected by ACE/CRIS spacecraft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bershadskii

Knowing the lengthscales at which turbulent fluctuations dissipate is key to understanding the nature of weakly compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We use radio wavelength interferometric imaging observations which measure the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 K. Sasikumar Raja , Prasad Subramanian , Madhusudan Ingale , R. Ramesh

The purpose of this work was to obtain diffusion coefficient for the magnetic angular momentum transport and material transport in a rotating solar model. We assumed that the transport of both angular momentum and chemical elements caused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-26 W. M. Yang , S. L. Bi

The motions of small-scale magnetic flux elements in the solar photosphere can provide some measure of the Lagrangian properties of the convective flow. Measurements of these motions have been critical in estimating the turbulent diffusion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-27 Piyush Agrawal , Mark P. Rast , Milan Gosic , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Matthias Rempel

We present the first interferometric polarization map of the W51 e1/e2 molecular cores obtained with the BIMA array at 1.3 mm wavelength with approximately 3 arcsecond resolution. The polarization angle varies smoothly across the double…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Shih-Ping Lai , Richard M. Crutcher , Jose M. Girart , Ramprasad Rao

We study the magnetic field to density ($B-\rho$) relation in turbulent molecular clouds with dynamically important magnetic fields using nonideal three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Our simulations show that there is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Sayantan Auddy , Shantanu Basu , Takahiro Kudoh

We examine the role of the interstellar magnetic field to modulate the orientation of turbulent flows within the Taurus molecular cloud using spatial gradients of thin velocity slices of 12CO and 13CO antenna temperatures. Our analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 M. Heyer , J. D. Soler , B. Burkhart

We investigate the aperiodic variability for a relatively large sample of accreting neutron stars and intermediate polars, focusing on the properties of the characteristic break commonly observed in power spectra of accreting objects. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-04 Juhani Mönkkönen , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Victor Doroshenko , Valery F. Suleimanov , Juri Poutanen