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Analogue systems are a powerful instrument to investigate and understand in a controlled setting many general-relativistic effects. Here, we focus on superradiant-triggered instabilities and quasi-normal modes. We consider a compressible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-06 Leandro A. Oliveira , Vitor Cardoso , Luís C. B. Crispino

Radiative equilibrium temperatures are calculated for the troposphere of a tidally locked Super-Earth based on a simple greenhouse model, using Solar System data as a guideline. These temperatures provide in combination with a Newtonian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 Ludmila Carone , Rony Keppens , Leen Decin

General circulation models of the atmosphere of hot Jupiters have shown the existence of a supersonic eastward equatorial jet. In this paper, we investigate the effects of compressibility on the atmospheric dynamics by solving the standard…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sébastien Fromang , Jérémy Leconte , Kevin Heng

Various models of solar sub-surface stratification are tested in the global EULAG-MHD solver to simulate diverse regimes of near-surface convective transport. Sub- and superadiabacity are altered at the surface of the model ($ r >…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-19 Andrey M. Stejko , Gustavo Guerrero , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

We study the axisymmetric, time-dependent hydrodynamics of rotating flows that are under the influence of supermassive black hole gravity and radiation from an accretion disk surrounding the black hole. This work is an extension of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Proga , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Ryuichi Kurosawa

A series of stellar models of spectral type G is computed to study the rotation laws resulting from mean-field equations. The rotation laws of the slowly rotating Sun, the fast rotating MOST stars epsilon Eri and kappa1 Cet and the rapid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Küker , G. Rüdiger , L. L. Kitchatinov

Recent studies found that atmospheric superrotation (i.e., west-to-east winds over the equator) on tidally locked planets can modify the phase of planetary waves. But, a clear relationship between the superrotation and the magnitude of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Shuang Wang , Jun Yang

Context. Be stars are presently viewed as B-type stars surrounded by a disc fueled by the star itself during episodicexcretion events. The origin of these events are poorly understood.Aims. This article aims to determine whether or not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 T. Boismard , M. Rieutord

Convection in rotating spherical geometries is an important physical process in planetary and stellar systems. Using continuation methods at low Prandtl number, we find both strong equatorially asymmetric and symmetric polar nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 F. Garcia , F. R. N. Chambers , A. L. Watts

Enceladus is believed to have a saltwater global ocean with a mean depth of at least 30~km, heated from below at the ocean-core interface and cooled at the top, where the ocean loses heat to the icy lithosphere above. This scenario suggests…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Ana H. Lobo , Andrew F. Thompson , Steven D. Vance , Saikiran Tharimena

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

The intense turbulence present in the solar convection zone is a major challenge to both theory and simulation as one tries to understand the origins of the striking differential rotation profile with radius and latitude that has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

We investigate the global transition from a turbulent state of superfluid vorticity to a laminar state, and vice versa, in the outer core of a neutron star. By solving numerically the hydrodynamic Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Peralta , A. Melatos , M. Giacobello , A. Ooi

The equatorial jets dominating the dynamics of the Jovian planets exhibit two distinct types of zonal flows: strongly eastward in the gas giants (superrotation) and strongly westward in the ice giants (subrotation). Existing theories…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Keren Duer-Milner , Nimrod Gavriel , Eli Galanti , Eli Tziperman , Yohai Kaspi

Equatorial Kelvin waves can be affected by subtropical Rossby wave dynamics. Previous research has demonstrated the Kelvin wave growth in response to subtropical forcing and the resonant growth due to eddy momentum flux convergence.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-30 Katharina M. Holube , Frank Lunkeit , Sergiy Vasylkevych , Nedjeljka Žagar

Three-dimensional numerical simulations show that large-scale latent heating resulting from condensation of water vapor can produce multiple zonal jets similar to those on the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and ice giants (Uranus and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuan Lian , Adam P. Showman

Existence of a stationary mode for a Hamiltonian dynamic system of two point vortexes with different signs on different latitudes of a uniform rotating sphere complying with observed data is stated. It is shown that such mode realization is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-22 I. I. Mokhov , S. G. Chefranov , A. G. Chefranov

Of profound astrobiological interest, Enceladus appears to have a global subsurface ocean that is salty, indicating water-rock reaction at present or in the past, important for its habitability. Here, we investigate how salinity and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Wanying Kang , Tushar Mittal , Suyash Bire , Jean-Michel Campin , John Marshall

Asynchronous rotation and orbital eccentricity lead to time-dependent irradiation of the close-in gas giant exoplanets -- the hot Jupiters. This time-dependent surface heating gives rise to fluid motions which propagate throughout the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Phil Arras , Aristotle Socrates

Global and semi-global convective dynamo simulations of solar-like stars are known to show a transition from an anti-solar (fast poles, slow equator) to solar-like (fast equator, slow poles) differential rotation (DR) for increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 M. Viviani , M. J. Käpylä , J. Warnecke , P. J. Käpylä , M. Rheinhardt