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The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is a ubiquitous physical process in ordinary fluids and plasmas, frequently observed also in space environments. In this paper, kinetic effects at proton scales in the nonlinear and turbulent stage of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 A. Settino , F. Malara , O. Pezzi , M. Onofri , D. Perrone , F. Valentini

In magnetized plasma turbulence, the couplings of perpendicular spatial scales that arise due to the nonlinear interactions are analyzed from the perspective of the free-energy exchanges. The plasmas considered here, with appropriate ion or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bogdan Teaca , Alejandro Bañón Navarro , Frank Jenko

The standard thin disk model predicts that when the accretion rate is over a small fraction of the Eddington rate, which corresponds to $L \ga 0.06 L_{Edd}$, the inner region of the disk is radiation-pressure-dominated and thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Sheng-Ming Zheng , Feng Yuan , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

The origin of the magnetic field in some systems like AGNs or GRBs is still an open question in astrophysics. A possible mechanism to explain the magnetic field generation is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, since it is able to transform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Oscar M. Pimentel , F. D. Lora-Clavijo

We study the stability of shear flows in a fully ionized plasma. Kelvin-Helmholtz is a well known, macroscopic and ideal shear-driven instability. In sufficiently low density plasmas, also the microscopic Hall magneto-shear instability can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-27 Daniel O. Gomez , Cecilia Bejarano , Pablo D. Mininni

We present a study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a weakly ionised, multifluid MHD plasma with parameters matching those of a typical molecular cloud. The instability is capable of transforming well-ordered flows into disordered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. C. Jones , T. P. Downes

We have shown that there exists low-frequency growing modes driven by a global temperature gradient in electron and ion plasmas, by linear perturbation analysis within the frame work of plasma Kinetic theory. The driving force of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Hattori , Keiichi Umetsu

In the study on nonlinear wave-wave processes in an ionosphere and a magnetosphere usually the main attention is paid to investigation of plasma turbulence at well developed stage, when the wide spectrum of plasma wave is present. On the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Volokitin , B. Atamaniuk

A complete analytical and numerical treatment of all magnetohydrodynamic waves and instabilities for radially stratified, magnetized accretion disks is presented. The instabilities are a possible source of anomalous transport. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Keppens , F. Casse , J. P. Goedbloed

We analyze the linear stability of an axially symmetric ideal plasma disk, embedded in a magnetic field and endowed with a differential rotation. This study is performed by adopting the magnetic flux function as the fundamental dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-26 G. Montani , F. Cianfrani , D. Pugliese

Plasma in the terrestrial magnetosheath is characterised by very weak particle-particle collisions, so kinetic microinstabilities are thought to be responsible for regulating the thermodynamics of the plasma. By exciting electromagnetic…

In the paradigm of magnetic acceleration of relativistic outflows, a crucial point is identifying a viable mechanism to convert the Poynting flux into the kinetic energy of the plasma, and eventually into the observed radiation. Since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri E. Lyubarsky

Linear analysis of the stability of diffuse clouds in the cold neutral medium with uniform magnetic field is performed. We consider that gas in equilibrium state is heated by cosmic rays, X-rays and electronic photoeffect on the surface of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander E. Dudorov , Constantine E. Stepanov , Sergey O. Fomin , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

I review recent analytical and numerical advances in the study of non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma physics. I concentrate on studies of the dynamics of plasmas which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. In contrast to locally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Strickland

We explore analytically the structure of relativistic shock and solitary wave solutions in collisionless plasmas. In the wave frame of reference, a cold plasma is flowing from one end and impacting on a low velocity plasma. First we show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Medvigy , Abraham Loeb

In this paper, we develop the analysis of a two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical configuration for an axially symmetric and rotating plasma (embedded in a dipole like magnetic field), modeling the structure of a thin accretion disk around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini

The cosmic rays non-resonant streaming instability is believed to be the source of substantial magnetic field amplification. In this work we investigate the effects of the ambient plasma temperature on the instability and derive analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexis Marret , Andrea Ciardi , Roch Smets , Julien Fuchs

We study a resistive tearing instability developing in a system evolving through the combined effect of Hall drift in the Electron-MHD limit and Ohmic dissipation. We explore first the exponential growth of the instability in the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-19 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Rainer Hollerbach

The influence of a constant uniform magnetic field on the thermodynamic properties of a partially ionized hydrogen plasma is studied. Using the method of Green' s function various interaction contributions to the thermodynamic functions are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 M. Steinberg , J. Ortner , W. Ebeling

The thermal stability of rotating, stratified, unmagnetized atmospheres is studied by means of linear-perturbation analysis, finding stability, overstability or instability, depending on the properties of the gas distribution, but also on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlo Nipoti