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We present results from N-body + magnetohydrodynamical simulations of merging clusters of galaxies. We find that cluster mergers cause various characteristic magnetic field structures because of the strong bulk flows in the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Motokazu Takizawa

Sunspots are concentrations of magnetic field on the visible solar surface that strongly affect the convective energy transport in their interior and surroundings. The filamentary outer regions (penumbrae) of sunspots show systematic radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 M. Rempel , M. Schüssler , R. H. Cameron , M. Knölker

Combined action of helical motions of plasma (the $\alpha$ effect) and non-uniform (differential) rotation is a key dynamo mechanism of solar and galactic large-scale magnetic fields. Dynamics of magnetic helicity of small-scale fields is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We find an instability resulting in generation of large-scale vorticity in a fast rotating small-scale turbulence or turbulent convection with inhomogeneous fluid density along the rotational axis in anelastic approximation. The large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-11 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin

Using two dimensional simulations, we study the formation of structures with a high-density contrast by magnetohydrodynamic waves in regions in which the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure is small. The initial state is a uniform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Van Loo , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist

We present magnetohydrodynamic simulations aimed at studying the effect of the magnetic suppression of turbulence (generated through various instabilities during the formation of molecular clouds by converging) on the subsequent star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-08 Zamora-Avilés Manuel , Vázquez-Semadeni Enrique , Körtgen Bastian , Banerjee Robi , Hartmann Lee

Large-scale magnetic fields in galaxies are thought to be generated by a turbulent dynamo. However the same turbulence also leads to a small-scale dynamo which generates magnetic noise at a more rapid rate. The efficiency of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 K. Subramanian

A hypothesis for sunspot formation is the buoyant emergence of magnetic flux tubes created by the strong radial shear at the tachocline. In this scenario, the magnetic field has to exceed a threshold value before it becomes buoyant and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 G. Guerrero , P. Käpylä

We numerically study a mesoscopic system consisting of magnetic nanorings in the presence of thermal magnetization fluctuations. We find the formation of dipolar-field-mediated ``bonds" promoting the formation of annuli clusters, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Samuel D. Slöetjes , Matías P. Grassi , Vassilios Kapaklis

Sunspot proper motions and flares of a super active region NOAA 5395, which was the biggest and the most flare-active region in the 22nd sunspot cycle, were analyzed in details. We measured sunspot proper motions by using the H-alpha - 5.0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takako T. Ishii , Hiroki Kurokawa , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

Magnetic fields vary in complexity for different stars. The stability of dipolar magnetic fields is known to depend on different quantities, e.g., the stellar rotation, the stratification, and the intensity of convective motions. Here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Bonnie Zaire , Laurene Jouve

Observations of rapidly rotating solar-like stars show a significant mixture of opposite-polarity magnetic fields within their polar regions. To explain these observations, models describing the surface transport of magnetic flux demand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Holzwarth , D. H. Mackay , M. Jardine

We examine the settled particle layers of planet forming disks in which the streaming instability (SI) is thought to be either weak or inactive. A suite of low-to-moderate resolution three-dimensional simulations in a $0.2H$ sized box,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Debanjan Sengupta , Orkan M. Umurhan

Nuclear rings at the centers of barred galaxies are known to be strongly magnetized. To explore the effects of magnetic fields on star formation in these rings and nuclear gas flows, we run magnetohydrodynamic simulations in which there is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-13 Sanghyuk Moon , Woong-Tae Kim , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

The tilt of bipolar magnetic region (BMR) is crucial in the Babcock--Leighton process for the generation of the poloidal magnetic field in Sun. Based on the thin flux tube model of the BMR formation, the tilt is believed to be caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Bidya Binay Karak , Sudip Mandal , Dipankar Banerjee

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

Structure formation in turbulence is effectively an instability of "plasma" formed by fluctuations serving as particles. These "particles" are quantumlike; namely, their wavelengths are non-negligible compared to the sizes of background…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Vasileios Tsiolis , Yao Zhou , Ilya Y. Dodin

Results from a numerical and analytical investigation of the solution of a nonlinear axially symmetric diffusion equation for the magnetic field are presented for the case when the nonlinear dependence of the diffusivity nu(B) on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Petrovay , F. Moreno-Insertis

Decay and dispersal of the tilted Bipolar Magnetic Regions (BMRs) on the solar surface are observed to produce large-scale poloidal field, which acts as the seed for the toroidal field and, thus, the next sunspot cycle. However, various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Pawan Kumar , Bidya Binay Karak , Anu Sreedevi

Recent direct numerical simulations (DNS) of large-scale turbulent dynamos in strongly stratified layers have resulted in surprisingly sharp bipolar structures at the surface. Here we present new DNS of helically and non-helically forced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-24 Sarah Jabbari , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii