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Planar acoustically dominated magneto\-hydro\-dynamic waves are initiated at the high-$\beta$ base of a simulated 2D isothermal stratified atmosphere with potential magnetic field exhibiting both open and closed field regions as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Jamon D. Pennicott , Paul S. Cally

Many stars across all classes possess strong enough magnetic fields to influence dynamical flow of material off the stellar surface. For the case of massive stars (O and B types), about 10\% of them harbour strong, globally ordered (mostly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Asif ud-Doula , Stan Owocki

In order to understand the star formation process under the influence of HII regions, we have carried out extensive investigations to well selected star-forming regions which all have been profoundly affected by existing massive O type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Jin-Zeng Li , Jinghua Yuan , Hong-Li Liu , Yuefang Wu , Ya-Fang Huang

The outer envelopes of massive ($M\gtrsim10\,M_{\odot}$) stars exhibit large increases in opacities from forests of lines and ionization transitions (particularly from iron and helium) that trigger near-surface convection zones.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 William Schultz , Lars Bildsten , Yan-Fei Jiang

In an X-ray binary system, the companion star feeds the compact neutron star with plasma materials via accretions. The spinning neutron star is likely covered with a thin "magnetized ocean" and may support {\it magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu-Qing Lou

We consider the generation of gravitational waves by primordial helical inverse cascade magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence produced by bubble collisions at the electroweak phase transition. We extend the previous study \cite{kgr08} by…

The Padoan and Nordlund model of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is derived from low order statistics of supersonic turbulence, neglecting gravity (e.g. gravitational fragmentation, accretion and merging). In this work the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Paolo Padoan , AAke Nordlund , Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman , Pak Shing Li

Astrophysical turbulence is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) in its nature. We discuss fundamental properties of MHD turbulence. In particular, we discuss the generation of compressible MHD waves by Alfvenic turbulence and show that this process…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Mid-infrared (MIR) shells or bubbles around expanding H II regions have received much attention due to their ability to initiate a new generation of star formation. We present multi-wavelength observations around two bubbles associated with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 L. K. Dewangan , D. K. Ojha , B. G. Anandarao , S. K. Ghosh , S. Chakraborti

Phase mixing of standing continuum Alfv\'en waves and/or continuum slow waves in atmospheric magnetic structures such as coronal arcades can create the apparent effect of a wave propagating across the magnetic field. We observe a prominence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 J. O. Raes , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Baes , A. N. Wright

Using radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar atmospheric layers from the upper convection zone to the lower corona, we investigate the self-consistent excitation of slow magneto-acoustic body waves (slow modes) in a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Yoshiaki Kato , Osker Steiner , Viggo Hansteen , Boris Gudiksen , Sven Wedemeyer , Mats Carlsson

We present a systematic theoretical and numerical investigation of the propagation properties of linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in a spatially periodic magnetic field, referred to as a magneto-lattice. Two types of central…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shiyu Sun , Peifeng Fan , Yulei Wang , Qiang Chen , Xingkai Li , Weihua Wang

The role of MHD turbulence in astrophysical environments is still highly debated. An important question that permeates this debate is the transport of magnetic flux. This is particularly important, for instance, in the context of star…

Turbulence is thought to be a primary driving force behind the early stages of star formation. In this framework large, self gravitating, turbulent clouds fragment into smaller clouds which in turn fragment into even smaller ones. At the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-17 David Guszejnov , Philip F. Hopkins

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama

Shock waves are simulated passing through the Alfv\'en-acoustic equipartition layer in a stratified isothermal magneto-atmosphere. The recent ray-theoretic calculations of N\'u\~nez (2019) predicted smoothing of the shock through this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Jamon D. Pennicott , Paul S. Cally

We propose a mechanism to make gravitational waves (GWs) visible in the electromagnetic domain. Gravitational waves that propagate through a strongly magnetized plasma interact with the plasma through its anisotropic stress-energy tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

We investigate the propagation of a shock wave into a warm neutral medium and cold neutral medium by one-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations with detailed treatment of thermal and chemical processes. Our main result shows that thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka

Recent observations of ram pressure stripped spiral galaxies in clusters revealed details of the stripping process, i.e., the truncation of all interstellar medium (ISM) phases and of star formation (SF) in the disk, and multiphase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Roediger , M. Brüggen , M. S. Owers , H. Ebeling , M. Sun

Magnetosonic waves are low-frequency, linearly polarized magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves commonly found in space, responsible for many well-known features, such as heating of the solar corona. In this work, we report observations of…