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Gravitational waves provide a unique and powerful opportunity to constrain the dynamics in the interior of proto-neutron stars during core collapse supernovae. Convective motions play an important role in generating neutron stars magnetic…

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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 present two-dimensional MHD numerical simulations for the interaction of high-velocity clouds with both magnetic and non-magnetic Galactic thick gaseous disks. For the magnetic models, the initial magnetic field is oriented parallel to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alfredo Santillan , Jose Franco , Marco Martos , Jongsoo Kim

The non-thermal filament (NTF) radio structures clustered within a few hundred parsecs of the Galactic Center (GC) are apparently unique to this region of the Galaxy. Recent radio images of the GC using MeerKAT at 1 GHz have revealed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Dylan M. Paré , Cornelia C. Lang , Mark R. Morris

Most cool core clusters of galaxies possess active galactic nuclei (AGN) in their centers. These AGN inflate buoyant bubbles containing non-thermal radio emitting particles. If such bubbles efficiently confine cosmic rays (CR) then this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Ruszkowski , T. A. Ensslin , M. Bruggen , M. C. Begelman , E. Churazov

We show that HI clouds in the Magellanic Clouds are stripped by the ram-pressure due to the halo and disk gases of the Galaxy. Molecular clouds are swept to the edge of the LMC, showing an eccentric distribution. The stripped HI clouds form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiaki SOFUE

Synchrotron-emitting, nonthermal filaments (NTFs) have been observed near the Galactic center for nearly four decades, yet their physical origin remains unclear. Here we investigate the possibility that NTFs are produced by the destruction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon , Adam Ginsburg

We have extended our earlier study (Heard & Warwick 2013, Paper I) of the X-ray emission emanating from the central 100 pc x 100 pc region of our Galaxy to an investigation of several features prominent in the soft X-ray (2-4.5 keV) band.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 V. Heard , R. S. Warwick

In X-rays, the Galactic Centre (GC) Region appears as a complex of diffuse thermal and non-thermal X-ray emission intermixed with a population of luminous discrete sources. Here we present some new findings from the XMM-Newton GC survey,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masaaki Sakano , Robert S. Warwick , Anne Decourchelle

We present the result of a study of the X-ray emission from the Galactic Centre (GC) Molecular Clouds (MC) within 15 arcmin from Sgr A*. We use XMM-Newton data (about 1.2 Ms of observation time) spanning about 8 years. The MC spectra show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Gabriele Ponti , Regis Terrier , Andrea Goldwurm , Guillaume Belanger , Guillaume Trap

Molecular clouds in the Galactic center (GC) reprocess radiation from past outbursts of nearby high-energy sources, generating a bright Fe K-alpha fluorescence at 6.4 keV. The closest clouds to the GC are only $\simeq 1.5$ pc from Sgr A*,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 G. Stel , G. Ponti , F. Haardt

We have performed unbiased spectral line surveys at 3 mm band toward the Galactic circumnuclear disk (CND) and Sgr A* using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) 45 m radio telescope. The target positions are two tangential points of the CND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Shunya Takekawa , Tomoharu Oka , Kunihiko Tanaka , Shinji Matsumura , Kodai Miura , Daisuke Sakai

Neutron stars are among the most fascinating astrophysical sources, being characterized by strong gravity, densities about the nuclear one or even above, and huge magnetic fields. Their observational signatures can be extremely diverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-06 L. Del Zanna , A. G. Pili , B. Olmi , N. Bucciantini , E. Amato

Waves launched from the neutron star surface or inner magnetosphere propagate through the magnetosphere as small perturbations, but can grow relative to the background magnetic field and steepen into ``monster shocks'' -- ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Michael P. Grehan , Bart Ripperda , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Christopher Thompson , Elias R. Most

We describe a population of small, high velocity, atomic hydrogen clouds, loops, and filaments found above and below the disk near the Galactic Center. The objects have a mean radius of 15 pc, velocity widths of $\sim 14$ km/s and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 N. M. McClure-Griffiths , J. A. Green , A. S. Hill , F. J. Lockman , J. M. Dickey , B. M. Gaensler , A. J. Green

New high-resolution, wide-field 90 cm VLA observations of the Galactic Center region by Nord et al. have revealed twenty nonthermal filament (NTF) candidates. We report 6 cm polarization observations of six of these. All of the candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. N. LaRosa , Michael E. Nord , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Namir E. Kassim

Tentative evidence suggests that the cores of massive neutron stars consist of deconfined quark matter. We argue that the formation of such a quark matter core during a galactic supernova could be accompanied by the emission of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Katarina Bleau , Joachim Kopp , Jiheon Lee , Jorinde van de Vis

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

We perform numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the gravitational collapse and fragmentation of a cylindrical molecular cloud with the help of the FLASH code. The cloud collapses rapidly along its radius without any signs of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-15 I. M. Sultanov , S. A. Khaibrakhmanov

MHD waves can be responsible for plasma fluctuations and short-term variations of the pulsar emission. We consider the properties of plane and cylindrical waves that can exist in the force-free magnetosphere. Waves are considered by means…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Urpin