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Plasma turbulence is the dominant transport mechanism for heat and particles in magnetized plasmas in linear devices and tokamaks, so the study of turbulence is important in limiting and controlling this transport. Linear devices provide an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Jarrod Leddy , Ben Dudson

In this paper we show results of numerical simulations for the turbulence in the interstellar medium. These results were obtained using a Riemann solver-free numerical scheme for high-Mach number hyperbolic equations. Here we especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Kissmann , J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , R. Grauer

ALMA observations revealed recently polarised radiation of several protoplanetary disks in the (sub-)millimetre wavelength range. Besides self-scattering of large particles, thermal emission by elongated grains is a potential source for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Florian Kirchschlager , Gesa H. -M. Bertrang , Mario Flock

A previous study (Paper I) investigated the polarization properties of a variety of simple convex grain shapes, some of which were found to be consistent with the observed polarization properties of interstellar dust from far-ultraviolet to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 B. T. Draine

Polarized Galactic synchrotron emission is an undesirable foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments observing at frequencies $< 150$ GHz. We perform a combined analysis of observational data at 1.4, 2.3, 23, 30 and 33 GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Janet L. Weiland , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Mark Halpern , Gary Hinshaw

Dust polarization orientations in molecular clouds often tend to be close to tangential to the Stokes $I$ dust continuum emission contours. The magnetic field and the emission gradient orientations, therefore, show some correlation. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the injection scale of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Constraining turbulence in disks is key towards understanding their evolution through the transport of angular momentum. Until now measurements of high turbulence have remained elusive and methods for estimating turbulence relay mostly on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 T. Paneque-Carreño , A. F. Izquierdo , R. Teague , A. Miotello , E. A. Bergin , R. Loomis , E. F. van Dishoeck

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous and a fundamental ingredient underlying many astrophysical phenomena. The multiphase nature of interstellar medium and diversity of driving mechanisms give rise to spatial variation of…

Observational cosmology is entering an era in which high precision will be required in both measurement and data analysis. Accuracy, however, can only be achieved with a thorough understanding of potential sources of contamination from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-19 Assaf Ben-David , Sebastian von Hausegger , Andrew D. Jackson

Using 3D dust maps and Planck polarized dust emission data, we investigate the influence of the 3D geometry of the nearby interstellar medium (ISM) on the statistics of the dust polarization on large ($80'$) scales. We test recent models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 George Halal , S. E. Clark , Mehrnoosh Tahani

Electrostatic gyrokinetic instabilities and turbulence in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator are studied. Particular attention is paid to the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) instability and its character close to marginal stability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 L. Podavini , A. Zocco , J. M. García-Regaña , M. Barnes , F. I. Parra , A. Mishchenko , P. Helander

Linearly polarized emission is described, in general, in terms of the Stokes parameters $Q$ and $U$, from which the polarization intensity and polarization angle can be determined. Although the polarization intensity and polarization angle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 C. A. Herron , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

Our aim is to study the polarization of thermal dust emission to see if the alignment of grain by radiative torques could explain the observed relation between the degree of polarization and the intensity in dense cores. Predictions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. -M. Pelkonen , M. Juvela , P. Padoan

In order to investigate the origin of the interstellar turbulence, detailed observations in the CO J=1--0 and 3--2 lines have been carried out in an interacting region of a molecular cloud with an HII region. As a result, several 1,000 to…

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a dynamically important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The $\sim$GeV CRs that carry most CR energy and pressure are likely confined by self-generated turbulence, leading them to stream along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Matt L. Sampson , James R. Beattie , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

Structures in the magnetoionic medium exist across a wide range of angular sizes owing to large-scale magnetic fields coherent over the Galactic spiral arms combined with small-scale fluctuations in the magnetic field and electron density…

Spatially resolved observations of molecular line emission have the potential to yield unique constraints on the nature of turbulence within protoplanetary disks. Using a combination of local non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jacob B. Simon , A. Meredith Hughes , Kevin M. Flaherty , Xue-Ning Bai , Philip J. Armitage

Understanding how the Galactic magnetic field threads the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) remains a considerable challenge, as different magnetic field tracers probe dissimilar phases and field components. We search for evidence of a…

Polarization carries information about the magnetic fields in interstellar clouds. The observations of polarized dust emission are used to study the role of magnetic fields in the evolution of molecular clouds and the initial phases of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 V. -M. Pelkonen , M. Juvela , P. Padoan