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Weak turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in strongly magnetized plasma is studied when the thermal pressure is less than the magnetic field pressure. In this situation the main nonlinear mechanism is the resonance scattering of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Evgenii A. Kuznetsov

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical state of astrophysical plasmas and a primary agent in the redistribution, dissipation, and conversion of energy into particle populations. Yet turbulence is still most often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Loukas Vlahos

Energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is known to be highly intermittent in space, being concentrated in sheet-like coherent structures. Much less is known about intermittency in time, another fundamental aspect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Stanislav Boldyrev

We study wave propagation in strongly nonlinear 1D diatomic granular crystals under an impact load. Depending on the mass ratio of the `light' to `heavy' beads, this system exhibits rich wave dynamics from highly localized traveling waves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 E. Kim , R. Chaunsali , H. Xu , J. Jaworski , J. Yang , P. Kevrekidis , A. F. Vakakis

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and magnetic field resonance acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Liu , X. T. He , S. G. Chen , W. Y. Zhang

Turbulence in highly magnetized plasma can be relativistic and induce an electric field comparable to the background magnetic field. Such a strong electric field can affect the emission process of non-thermal electrons. As the first step…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano

We numerically study the diffusion and scattering of cosmic rays (CRs) together with their acceleration processes in the framework of the modern understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Based on the properties of compressible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 Nana Gao , Jianfu Zhang

High-energy particles stream during coronal mass ejections or flares through the plasma of the solar wind. This causes instabilities, which lead to wave growth at specific resonant wave numbers, especially within shock regions. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-01 Sebastian Lange , Felix Spanier , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio , Timo Laitinen

We discuss the phenomenon of energization of relativistic charged particles in three-dimensional (3D) incompressible MHD turbulence and the diffusive properties of the motion of the same particles. We show that the random electric field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-05 Oreste Pezzi , Pasquale Blasi , William H. Matthaeus

We develop a theory of particle acceleration inside relativistic rotating electron-positron force-free jets with spiral magnetic fields. We considered perturbation of the stationary magnetic field structure and found that acceleration takes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. Beresnyak , Ya. N. Istomin , V. I. Pariev

Based on a recent communication by the present authors the question of energy dissipation in magneto hydrodynamical waves in an inflating background in general relativity is examined. It is found that the expanding background introduces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-03 Ajanta Das , S. Chatterjee

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

We study the acceleration of charged grains by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM). We begin with revisiting gyroresonance acceleration by taking into account the fluctuations of grain guiding center along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Thiem Hoang , A. Lazarian , R. Schlickeiser

Turbulent, relativistic nonthermal plasmas are ubiquitous in high-energy astrophysical systems, as inferred from broadband nonthermal emission spectra. The underlying turbulent nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA) processes have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Kai W. Wong , Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

We study the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) in a uniformly magnetized plasma at arbitrary angles to the magnetic field. No a priori assumptions are made about the temperature, and we consider both a plasma at rest and a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

There is a growing evidence that extended radio halos are most likely generated by electrons reaccelerated via some kind of turbulence generated in the cluster volume during major mergers. It is well known that Alfv\'en waves channel most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Gianfranco Brunetti , Pasquale Blasi , Rossella Cassano , Stefano Gabici

Many astrophysical sources of high energy emission, such as black hole magnetospheres, superstrongly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars), and probably relativistic jets in Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma Ray Bursts involve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Komissarov , M. Barkov , M. Lyutikov

The effect of electrostatic microturbulence on fast particles rapidly decreases at high energy, but can be significant at moderate energy. Previous studies found that, in addition to changes in the energetic particle density, this results…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 George J. Wilkie

Gravitational waves (GW) propagating through a magnetised plasma excite low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In this paper we investigate whether these waves can produce observable radio emission at higher frequencies by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a central role in many astrophysical processes in the interstellar medium (ISM), including star formation and cosmic-ray transport and acceleration. MHD turbulence can be decomposed into three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Jiyao Zhang , Yue Hu