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Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. The total intensity traces the strength and distribution of total magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

Probing magnetic fields in Giant Molecular Clouds is often challenging. Fortunately, recently simulations show that analysis of velocity gradients (the Velocity Gradient Technique) can be used to map out the magnetic field morphology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Yue Hu , Ka Ho Yuen , A. Lazarian , Laura M. Fissel , P. A. Jones , M. R. Cunningham

We study the magnetic field structures in six giant filaments associated with the spiral arms of the Milky Way by applying the Velocity Gradient technique (VGT) to the 13CO spectroscopic data from GRS, Fugin, and SEDIGSM surveys. Compared…

The large abundance of electrically neutral particles has a remarkable impact on the dynamics of many astrophysical plasmas. Here, we use a two-fluid model that includes charge-neutral elastic collisions and Hall's current to study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 David Martínez-Gómez

We discuss a long-standing problem of how turbulence can be studied using observations of Doppler broadened emission and absorption lines. The focus of the present review is on two new techniques, the Velocity-Channel Analysis (VCA), which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 A. Lazarian

Compressible turbulence, especially the magnetized version of it, traditionally has a bad reputation with researchers. However, recent progress in theoretical understanding of incompressible MHD as well as that in computational capabilities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Measuring the 3D spatial distribution of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium and the intracluster medium is crucial yet challenging. The probing of 3D magnetic field's 3D distribution, including the field plane-of-sky orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-28 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

In this presentation we review the link between the statistics of intensity fluctuations in spectral line data cubes with underlying statistical properties of turbulence in the interstellar medium. Both the formalism of Velocity Channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri Pogosyan , Alex Lazarian

Alfv\'{e}nic component of MHD turbulence damps Alfv\'{e}nic waves. The consequences of this effect are important for many processes, from cosmic ray (CR) propagation to launching outflows and winds in galaxies and other magnetized systems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-17 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu

We report analysis of sub-Alfv\'enic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) perturbations in the low-\b{eta} radial-field solar wind using the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft data from 31 October to 12 November 2018. We calculate wave vectors using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 S. Q. Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Mijie Shi

We present a new model of magnetic reconnection in the presence of turbulence, applicable when the magnetic helicity is non-zero. The new model differs from the Lazarian-Vishniac turbulent reconnection theory by emphasizing the role of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexander J. B. Russell

We review the use of velocity centroids statistics to recover information of interstellar turbulence from observations. Velocity centroids have been used for a long time now to retrieve information about the scaling properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 A. Esquivel , A. Lazarian

The role of magnetic helicity is investigated in kinetic Alfv\'en wave and oblique whistler turbulence in presence of a relatively intense external magnetic field $b_0 {\bf e_\parallel}$. In this situation, turbulence is strongly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Galtier , R. Meyrand

Recent studies provide evidence for the multi-scale nature of magnetic turbulence in the plasma sheet. Wavelet methods represent modern time series analysis techniques suitable for the description of statistical characteristics of…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 W. Baumjohann , R. Nakamura , A. Runov , M. Volwerk , T. L. Zhang , A. Balogh

Convection has been discussed in the field of accretion discs for several decades, both as a means of angular momentum transport and also because of its role in controlling discs' vertical structure via heat transport. If the gas is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Loren E. Held , Henrik N. Latter

We study the effects of projection of three-dimensional (3D) data onto the plane of the sky by means of numerical simulations of turbulence in the interstellar medium including the magnetic field, parameterized cooling and diffuse and…

We discuss magnetic pressure and density fluctuations in strongly turbulent isothermal MHD flows in "1+2/3" dimensions. We first consider "simple" nonlinear MHD waves, which allow us show that the slow and fast modes have different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Passot , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Linearly polarized emission from dust grains and molecular spectroscopy is an effective probe of the magnetic field topology in the interstellar medium and molecular clouds. The longstanding Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-13 Junhao Liu , Qizhou Zhang , Keping Qiu

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for substantial revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to calculate the scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian
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