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The self-consistent interaction between energetic particles and self-generated hydromagnetic waves in a cosmic-ray pressure dominated plasma is considered. Using a three-dimensional hybrid MHD-kinetic code, which utilises a spherical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Reville , A. R. Bell

Magnetic fields on the order of 100 $\mu$G observed in young supernova remnants cannot be amplified by shock compression alone. To investigate the amplification caused by turbulent dynamo, we perform three-dimensional MHD simulations of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , James M. Stone , Alex Lazarian

Magnetic fields are ubiquitously observed in the interstellar medium (ISM) of present-day star-forming galaxies with dynamically relevant energy densities. Using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the supernova (SN)…

Supernova blast wave shock is a very important site of cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the detailed physical process of acceleration, in particular, non-linear interplay between cosmic-ray streaming and magnetic field amplification has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Alexandre Marcowith , Gwenael Giacinti

The evolution of shocks induced by massive stars does not depend only on the ambient magnetic field strength, but also on its orientation. In the present work, the dynamics of a magnetized blast wave is investigated under the influence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Antoine Gintrand , Quentin Moreno-Gelos

We investigate shock acceleration in a realistic astrophysical environment with density inhomogeneities. The turbulence induced by the interaction of the shock precursor with upstream density fluctuations amplifies both upstream and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

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

We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the propagation dynamics and morphology of overdense, radiatively cooling, supermagnetosonic jets, with the help of fully three-dimensional SPMHD simulations. Evaluated for a set of parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adriano H. Cerqueira , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

This article presents the study of the effects of magnetic fields on non-distributed nuclear burning fronts as a possible solution to a fundamental problem for the thermonuclear explosion of a Chandrasekhar mass ($M_{Ch}$) white dwarf (WD),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Boyan Hristov , David C. Collins , Peter Hoeflich , Charles A. Weatherford , Tiara R. Diamond

Feedback from supernovae is an essential aspect of galaxy formation. In order to improve subgrid models of feedback we perform a series of numerical experiments to investigate how supernova explosions power galactic winds. We use the Flash…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Creasey , Tom Theuns , Richard G. Bower

We investigate the impact of strong initial magnetic fields in core-collapse supernovae of non-rotating progenitors by simulating the collapse and explosion of a 16.9 Msun star for a strong- and weak-field case assuming a twisted-torus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Vishnu Varma , Bernhard Mueller , Fabian R. N. Schneider

We investigate the influence of parametric magnetic field configurations of a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) on electromagnetic (EM) observables, specifically the kilonova lightcurves and nucleosynthesis yields. We perform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 Sebastiaan de Haas , Pablo Bosch , Philipp Mösta , Sanjana Curtis , Nathanyel Schut

We investigate the magnetic field evolution in a series of galaxy minor mergers using the N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code \textsc{Gadget}. The simulations include the effects of radiative cooling, star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Annette Geng , Hanna Kotarba , Florian Bürzle , Klaus Dolag , Federico Stasyszyn , Alexander Beck , Peter Nielaba

In star forming disk galaxies, matter circulation between stars and the interstellar gas, and, in particular the energy input by random and clustered supernova explosions, determine the dynamical and chemical evolution of the ISM, and hence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Based on the new findings on the turbulent dynamo in \citet{XL16}, we examine the magnetic field amplification in the context of supernova remnants. Due to the strong ion-neutral collisional damping in the weakly-ionized interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

We use hydrodynamical simulations in a $(256\;{\rm pc})^3$ periodic box to model the impact of supernova (SN) explosions on the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) for initial densities $n = 0.5-30$ cm$^{-3}$ and SN rates $1-720$…

We simulate time-dependent particle acceleration in the blast wave of a young supernova remnant (SNR), using a Monte Carlo approach for the diffusion and acceleration of the particles, coupled to an MHD code. We calculate the distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 K. M. Schure , A. Achterberg , R. Keppens , Jacco Vink

Observations show that the magnetic field in young supernova remnants (SNRs) is significantly stronger than can be expected from the compression of the circumstellar medium (CSM) by a factor of four expected for strong blast waves.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-05 K. M. Schure , J. Vink , A. Achterberg , R. Keppens