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The impact of the magnetic field on postbounce supernova dynamics of non-rotating stellar cores is studied by performing three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spectral neutrino transport. The explodability of strongly and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-19 Jin Matsumoto , Yuta Asahina , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

Abridged. It is important for the star formation process to understand the collapse of a prestellar dense core. We investigate the effect of the magnetic field during the first collapse up to the formation of the firstcore, focusing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , S. Fromang

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) (Balbus and Hawley 1991, Hawley and Balbus 1991) transports angular momentum radially outwards in accretion discs through the distortion of the magnetic field lines that connect fluid elements. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

Strong magnetic fields make neutron stars potential sources of detectable electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals. Hence, inferring these magnetic fields is critical to understand the emissions of neutron stars. However, due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Gravitational waves provide a unique and powerful opportunity to constrain the dynamics in the interior of proto-neutron stars during core collapse supernovae. Convective motions play an important role in generating neutron stars magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 Raphaël Raynaud , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Jérôme Guilet

We present results of new three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of rapidly rotating strongly magnetized core collapse. These simulations are the first of their kind and include a microphysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-18 P. Mösta , S. Richers , C. D. Ott , R. Haas , A. L. Piro , K. Boydstun , E. Abdikamalov , C. Reisswig , E. Schnetter

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) can destabilize hydrodynamically stable rotational flows, thereby allowing angular momentum transport in accretion disks. A notorious problem for MRI is its questionable applicability in regions with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

In this paper, we present the results of 3-dimensional collapse simulations of rotating stars for a range of stellar progenitors. We find that for the fastest spinning stars, rotation does indeed modify the convection above the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Fryer , M. S. Warren

Accretion disks are highly unstable to magnetic instabilities driven by shear flow, where classically, the axisymmetric, weak-field Magneto-Rotational Instability (MRI) has received much attention through local WKB approximations. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-21 Nicolas Brughmans , Rony Keppens , Hans Goedbloed

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be considered one of the most effective techniques in both clinical diagnostic medical field and biomedicine, as it allows to obtain images anatomy of the body and its various parts and information…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-02 Stefania Nicolosi

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a key process for driving efficient angular momentum transport in astrophysical disks. Understanding its non-linear saturation constitutes a fundamental problem in modern accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-25 Martin E. Pessah

A full-relativistic approach is used to compute the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), the Keplerian, frame-dragging, precession and oscillation frequencies of the radial and vertical motions of neutral test particles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Andres F. Gutierrez-Ruiz , Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo , Leonardo A. Pachon

There is increasing evidence that, in the very late phase of stellar evolution before core collapse, massive stars have winds with large mass loss rates that give rise to a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) surrounding the progenitor star.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Nick Ekanger , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kazumi Kashiyama

Although the magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been widely accepted as a powerful accretion mechanism in magnetized accretion disks, it has not been realized in the laboratory. The possibility of studying MRI in a rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hantao Ji , Jeremy Goodman , Akira Kageyama

All experiments, which have been proposed so far to model the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the laboratory, involve a Couette flow of liquid metals in a rotating annulus. All liquid metals have small magnetic Prandtl numbers, Pm,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Koichi Noguchi , Vladimir I. Pariev

Core-collapse supernovae are the endproducts of massive stars, and yield radio events whose brightness depends on the intensity of the interaction experienced by the supernova ejecta with the circumstellar presupernova wind material. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-01 Miguel A. Perez-Torres

It is widely believed that in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) a supermassive black hole with an accretion disk is surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick torus at sub-parsec scale. However, it is not clear how is the mass supply…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-24 Yuki Kudoh , Keiichi Wada

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered to be one of the most powerful sources of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable quasi-Keplerian flows, such as those governing accretion disk flows. Although the linear stability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-21 A. Guseva , R. Hollerbach , A. P. Willis , M. Avila

Turbulence and dynamo induced by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) are analyzed using quasi-linear statistical simulation methods. It is found that homogenous turbulence is unstable to a large scale dynamo instability, which saturates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs). These signals propagate essentially unobstructed, providing a unique probe of the supernova central engine. In this work, we investigate parameter…