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The transport of angular momentum by magnetic fields is a crucial physical process in formation and evolution of stars and disks. Because the ionization degree in star forming clouds is extremely low, non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kengo Tomida , Satoshi Okuzumi , Masahiro N. Machida

With a test-particle simulation, we investigate the effect of large-scale coronal magnetic fields on electron acceleration at an outward-propagating coronal shock with a circular front. The coronal field is approximated by an analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Xiangliang Kong , Yao Chen , Fan Guo , Shiwei Feng , Guohui Du , Gang Li

In this paper, we study shock structures of collisionless shocks in partially ionized plasmas by means of two-dimensional hybrid simulations, where the shock is a perpendicular shock with shock velocity Vsh ~ 40 Va ~ 1333 km/s and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Yutaka Ohira

Radiative shocks, behind which gas cools faster than the dynamical time, play a key role in many astrophysical transients, including classical novae and young supernovae interacting with circumstellar material. The dense layer behind high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Elad Steinberg , Brian D. Metzger

Magnetic field strengths inferred for relativistic outflows including gamma-ray bursts (GRB) and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are larger than naively expected by orders of magnitude. We present three-dimensional relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew MacFadyen , Peng Wang

Using relativistic, axisymmetric, ideal MHD, we examine the outflow from a disk around a compact object, taking into account the baryonic matter, the electron-positron/photon fluid, and the large-scale electromagnetic field. Focussing on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nektarios Vlahakis , Arieh Konigl

In this work we extend the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver in the moving mesh code AREPO to include the Hall effect. The core of our algorithm is based on an estimation of the magnetic field gradients by a least-square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Oliver Zier , Alexander C. Mayer , Volker Springel

Cool weakly ionized gaseous rotating disk, are considered by many models as the origin of the evolution of protoplanetary clouds. Instabilities against perturbations in such disks play an important role in the theory of the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Liverts , M. Mond , A. D. Chernin

Ab-initio numerical study of collisionless shocks in electron-ion unmagnetized plasmas is performed with fully relativistic particle in cell simulations. The main properties of the shock are shown, focusing on the implications for particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 S. F. Martins , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva , W. B. Mori

The electron dynamics and the mechanisms of power absorption in radio-frequency (RF) driven, magnetically enhanced capacitively coupled plasmas (MECCPs) at low pressure are investigated. The device in focus is a geometrically asymmetric…

Very strong magnetic fields can arise in non-central heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies, which may not decay quickly in a conducting plasma. We carry out relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulations to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-11 Arpan Das , Shreyansh S. Dave , P. S. Saumia , Ajit M. Srivastava

Strong non-relativistic shocks are known to accelerate particles up to relativistic energies. However, for Diffusive Shock Acceleration electrons must have a highly suprathermal energy, implying a need for very efficient pre-acceleration.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Karol Fulat , Artem Bohdan , Gabriel Torralba Paz , Martin Pohl

We investigate the density-shear instability in Hall-MHD via numerical simulation of the full non-linear problem, in the context of magnetar activity. We confirm the development of the instability of a plane-parallel magnetic field with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Todor Kondic , Maxim Lyutikov , Rainer Hollerbach

An ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) was used to investigate the interactions of fast-mode shocks with self-gravitating, isothermal cores with mass-to-flux ratios that are somewhat below the minimum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Vaidya , T. W. Hartquist , S. A. E. G. Falle

We perform a numerical-simulation study of the acceleration of electrons at shocks that propagate through a prespecified, kinematically defined turbulent magnetic field. The turbulence consists of broadband magnetic fluctuations that are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone

Bright transient objects in different wave bands have been discovered in recent years. To explain these short (from ms to s), and very powerful events different models, galactic and extragalactic, have been considered. One of popular model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , I. A. Kondratyev , S. G. Moiseenko

Large-scale shocks formed by clustered feedback of young OB stars are considered an important source of mechanical energy for the ISM and a trigger of molecular cloud formation. Their interaction sites are locations where kinetic energy and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Evangelia Ntormousi , Joanne R. Dawson , Patrick Hennebelle , Katharina Fierlinger

Non-relativistic collisionless shock waves are widespread in space and astrophysical plasmas and are known as efficient particle accelerators. However, our understanding of collisionless shocks, including their structure and the mechanisms…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 T. Liseykina , G. Dudnikova , V. Vshivkov , M. Malkov

We present global 3D MHD simulations of disks of gas and solids, aiming at developing models that can be used to study various scenarios of planet formation and planet-disk interaction in turbulent accretion disks. A second goal is to show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Lyra , A. Johansen , H. Klahr , N. Piskunov

Helical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with Hall effects is ubiquitous in heliophysics and plasma physics, such as star formation and solar activities, and its intrinsic mechanisms are still not clearly explained. Direct numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Running Hu , Jin-Han Xie , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu , Yuan Hu , Jianchun Wang , Shiyi Chen