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We investigate the stability of partially ionised, differentially rotating, diffusive disc threaded by both azimuthal and vertical magnetic field. The general stability criterion of such a disc in the presence of axisymmetric fluctuations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

We use three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations to study the formation of a corona above an initially weakly magnetized, isothermal accretion disk. We also describe a modification to time-explicit numerical algorithms for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. A. Miller , J. M. Stone

In accretion disks with large-scale ordered magnetic fields, the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is marginally suppressed, so other processes may drive angular momentum transport leading to accretion. Accretion could then be driven by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Megan D. Marshall , Mark J. Avara , Jonathan C. McKinney

In this paper, we analyze the linear stability of a stellar accretion disk, having a stratified morphology. The study is performed in the framework of ideal magneto-hydrodynamics and therefore it results in a characterization of the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Montani , D. Pugliese

We present a general linear dispersion relation which describes the coupled behavior of magnetorotational, photon bubble, and convective instabilities in weakly magnetized, differentially rotating accretion disks. We presume the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Omer Blaes , Aristotle Socrates

Debris discs are commonly swathed in gas which can be observed in UV, in fine structure lines in FIR, and in resolved maps of CO emission. Carbon and oxygen are overabundant in such gas, but it is severely depleted in hydrogen. As a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Quentin Kral , Henrik Latter

We study the magnetorotational instability (MRI) using nonmodal stability techniques. Despite the spectral instability of many forms of the MRI, this proves to be a natural method of analysis that is well-suited to deal with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

The standard magnetorotational instability (SMRI) is widely believed to be responsible for the observed accretion rates in astronomical disks. It is a linear instability triggered in the differentially rotating ionized disk flow by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-05 Yin Wang , Fatima Ebrahimi , Hongke Lu , Jeremy Goodman , Erik P. Gilson , Hantao Ji

Hot accretion tori around a compact object are known to be susceptible to a global hydrodynamical instability, the so-called Papaloizou-Pringle (PP) instability, arising from the interaction of non-axisymmetric waves across the corotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-11 Wen Fu , Dong Lai

We investigate whether triggering of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary discs can account for the wide diversity of observed accretion outbursts. We show that short-lived, relatively low accretion rate events probably…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jacob Cleaver , Lee Hartmann , Jaehan Bae

Clusters of galaxies are embedded in halos of optically thin, gravitationally stratified, weakly magnetized plasma at the system's virial temperature. Due to radiative cooling and anisotropic heat conduction, such intracluster medium (ICM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 C. Nipoti , L. Posti , S. Ettori , M. Bianconi

We present two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of the fully kinetic collisionless magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly magnetized (high $\beta$) pair plasma. The central result of this numerical analysis is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Giannandrea Inchingolo , Thomas Grismayer , Nuno F. Loureiro , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

We examine whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can serve as a mechanism of angular momentum transport in circumplanetary disks. For the MRI to operate the ionization degree must be sufficiently high and the magnetic pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuri I. Fujii , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Using numerical MHD simulations, we have studied the evolution of the magnetorotational instability in stratified accretion disks in which the ionization fraction (and therefore resistivity) varies substantially with height. This model is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Timothy Fleming , James M. Stone

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of differential rotation under the simultaneous presence of axial and azimuthal components of the (current-free) magnetic field is considered. For rotation with uniform specific angular momentum the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guenther Ruediger , Manfred Schultz

We present a linear analysis of the vertical structure and growth of the magnetorotational instability in stratified, weakly ionised accretion discs, such as protostellar and quiescent dwarf novae systems. The method includes the effects of…

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

The saturation level of the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in a strongly radiation dominated accretion disk is studied using a new Godunov radiation MHD code in the unstratified shearing box approximation. Since vertical gravity is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-09 Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis

This paper studies the response of a thin accretion disk to an external radial magnetic field. Our focus is on protoplanetary disks (PPDs), which are exposed during their later evolution to an intense, magnetized wind from the central star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Matthew Russo , Christopher Thompson

We analyzed the effects of a toroidal magnetic field in the formation of several magnetized accretion tori, dubbed as ringed accretion disks (RADs), orbiting around one central Kerr supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) in AGNs, where both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 D. Pugliese , G. Montani

We report new global ideal MHD simulations for thin accretion disks (with thermal scale height H/R=0.1 and 0.05) threaded by net vertical magnetic fields. Our computations span three orders of magnitude in radius, extend all the way to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone