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Gravitational and hydrodynamical perturbations are analysed in a relativistic plasma containing a mixture of interacting fluids characterized by a non-negligible bulk viscosity coefficient. The energy-momentum transfer between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Massimo Giovannini

We study the effects of bulk viscosity on pT spectra and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. For this purpose we compute the dissipative correction df to the single particle distribution functions in leading-log QCD, and in several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kevin Dusling , Thomas Schaefer

Motivated by the finding that the observed surface brightness profile of many galactic nuclei are well fit by double-power-laws, we explore a range of spherical self-consistent dynamical models with this light profile. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 HongSheng Zhao

We have used the STOKES radiative transfer code, to model polarization induced by dust scattering in the polar regions of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We discuss the wavelength-dependence of the spectral intensity and polarization over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rene W. Goosmann , C. Martin Gaskell , M. Shoji

This paper is devoted to a statistical analysis of the fluctuations of velocity and acceleration produced by a random distribution of point vortices in two-dimensional turbulence. We show that the velocity probability density function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Clément Sire

Two dimensional stochastic time model of scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulent transport is studied. Instability arisen in the system with respect to the stochastic perturbations of both either density or vorticity reveals itself in the strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Volchenkov , R. Lima

Experiments on 2D random water wave propagation in a large wave tank are analyzed when the effect of dispersion changes. A stereoscopic profilometry technique is used to measure the water surface displacement resolved in both time and space…

Double-peaked \oiii~profiles could potentially indicate kiloparsec-scale dual AGNs. We analyze long-term optical light curves of 35 type 1 AGNs with such features from our recent catalog in Zheng et al. (2025). These light curves are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-04 Qi Zheng , Xingyv Zhu , Xueguang Zhang , Qirong Yuan

We introduce a shell (``GOY'') model for turbulent binary fluids. The variation in the concentration between the two fluids acts as an active scalar leading to a redefined conservation law for the energy, which is incorporated into the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Mogens H. Jensen , Poul Olesen

In this paper we examine time-dependent and three-dimensional perturbations of spherical accretion flow onto a neutron star close to its Eddington limit. Our treatment assumes a Schwarzschild geometry for the spacetime outside the neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Guy S. Miller , Myeong-Gu Park

We have adapted the anelastic spectral code of Barranco & Marcus (2006) to simulate a turbulent convective layer with the intention of studying the effectiveness of turbulent eddies in dissipating external shear (e.g. tides). We derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kaloyan Penev , Joseph Barranco , Dimitar Sasselov

We examine a model for the observed temporal variability of powerful blazars in the $\gamma$-ray band in which the dynamics is described in terms of a stochastic differential equation, including the contribution of a deterministic drift and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli , G. Galanti

We present a numerical framework for the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN), which links the variability of AGN over a broad range of timescales and luminosities to the observed properties of the AGN population as a whole, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Lia F. Sartori , Benny Trakhtenbrot , Kevin Schawinski , Neven Caplar , Ezequiel Treister , Ce Zhang

This work develops application techniques for stochastic modelling of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) variability as a probe of accretion disk physics. Stochastic models, specifically Continuous Auto-Regressive Moving Average (CARMA) models,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Jackeline Moreno , Michael S. Vogeley , Gordon T. Richards

The variability of the continuum spectral energy distribution has been analyzed for a complete magnitude-limited sample of quasars in Selected Area 57, observed at two epochs in the photographic $U$, $B_J$, $F$ and $N$ bands with the Mayall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dario Trevese , Richard G. Kron , Alessandro Bunone

Previous studies have shown that star formation depends on the driving of molecular cloud turbulence, and differences in the driving can produce an order of magnitude difference in the star formation rate. The turbulent driving is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 C. A. Herron , C. Federrath , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , Blakesley Burkhart

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) at relativistic shocks is widely thought to be an important acceleration mechanism in various astrophysical jet sources, including radio-loud active galactic nuclei such as blazars. Such acceleration can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthew G. Baring , Markus Böttcher , Errol J. Summerlin

The nonlinear evolution of a vortex sheet driven by the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability is characterized by the formation of a spiral possessing complex stretching and intensity patterns. We show that the power energy spectrum of a single…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Malek Abid , Alberto Verga

The study of velocity fields of the hot gas in galaxy clusters can help to unravel details of microphysics on small-scales and to decipher the nature of feedback by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Likewise, magnetic fields as traced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel

Various radio galaxies show signs of having gone through episodic jet outbursts in the past. An example is the class of double-double radio galaxies (DDRGs). However, to follow the evolution of an individual source in real-time is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Sander Walg , Abraham Achterberg , Sera Markoff , Rony Keppens , Oliver Porth