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The magnetorotational instability (MRI) triggers turbulence and enables outward transport of angular momentum in hydrodynamically stable accretion discs. By using the WKB approximation and methods of singular function theory, we resolve two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

We re-analyze the physical conditions for Magneto-rotational Instability (MRI) within a steady axisymmetric stratified disk of plasma, in order to account for the so-called isorotation theory (the spatial profile of differential angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Francesco Cianfrani , Giovanni Montani

We consider the evolution of accretion discs that contain some turbulence within a disc dead zone, a region about the disc midplane of a disc that is not sufficiently ionised for the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) to drive turbulence.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

In this paper, we develop the analysis of a two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical configuration for an axially symmetric and rotating plasma (embedded in a dipole like magnetic field), modeling the structure of a thin accretion disk around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini

We conduct a linear analysis of axisymmetric magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a magnetized cylindrical Taylor-Couette (TC) flow for its standard version (SMRI) with a purely axial background magnetic field and two further types --…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-07 A. Mishra , G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani

Hydromagnetic stresses in accretion discs have been the subject of intense theoretical research over the past one and a half decades. Most of the disc simulations have assumed a small initial magnetic field and studied the turbulence that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Johansen , Yuri Levin

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is one of the most important and most common instabilities in astrophysics, it is widely accepted that it serves as a source of turbulent viscosity in accretion disks -- the most energy efficient objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Szklarski

It has recently been suggested that conduction-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities may operate at all radii within an intracluster medium (ICM), and profoundly affect the structure of a cluster's magnetic field. Where MHD…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tamara Bogdanovic , Christopher Reynolds , Richard Massey

Strongly magnetized accretion discs around black holes have attractive features that may explain enigmatic aspects of X-ray binary behaviour. The structure and evolution of these discs are governed by a dynamo-like mechanism, which channels…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Greg Salvesen , Jacob B. Simon , Philip J. Armitage , Mitchell C. Begelman

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most promising mechanism behind accretion in low-mass protostellar disks. Here we present the first analysis of the global structure and evolution of non-ideal MRI-driven T-Tauri disks on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Russell Landry , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Neal J. Turner , Greg Abram

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to play a key role in the formation of stars and black holes by sustaining the turbulence in hydrodynamically stable Keplerian accretion discs. In previous experiments the MRI was observed…

We explore the effect magnetic fields have on self-gravitating accretion disks around spinning black holes via numerical evolutions in full dynamical magnetohydrodynamic spacetimes. The configurations we study are unstable to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Erik Wessel , Vasileios Paschalidis , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

Linear instability of two equilibrium configurations with either poloidal (I) or toroidal (II) dominant magnetic field components are studied in thin vertically-isothermal Keplerian discs. Solutions of the stability problem are found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuri M. Shtemler , Michael Mond , Edward Liverts

We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

We venture for the comparison between growth rates for magnetorotational instability (MRI) and hydrodynamics instability in the presence of an extra force in the local Keplerian accretion flow. The underlying model is described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-27 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The influence of the Hall effect on the global stability of cool Kepler disks under the influence of an axial magnetic field is considered. For sufficiently large magnetic Reynolds numbers Rm the magnetorotational instability (MRI) exists…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ruediger , L. L. Kitchatinov

The structure and dynamics of diffuse gas in the Milky Way and other disk galaxies may be strongly influenced by thermal and magnetorotational instabilities (TI and MRI) on scales of about 1-100 pc. We initiate a study of these processes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

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

We report on the first global three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of disk accretion onto a rotating magnetized star through the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The star has a dipole field misaligned relative to the rotation axis by a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Marina M. Romanova , Akshay K. Kulkarni , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been suggested to lead a rapid growth of the magnetic field in core collapse supernovae and produce departures from spherical syymmetry that can be important in determining the explosion mechanism. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Urpin