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Magnetar magnetospheres are believed to be strongly twisted, due to shearing of the stellar crust by internal magnetic stresses. We present time-dependent axisymmetric simulations showing in detail the evolution of relativistic force-free…

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Recent research has shown that distinct physical regions in the Venusian induced magnetosphere are recognizable from the variations of strength of the magnetic field and its wave/fluctuation activity. In this paper the statistical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Z. Vörös , T. L. Zhang , M. P. Leubner , M. Volwerk , M. Delva , W. Baumjohann

Shock waves play an important role in turbulent astrophysical media by compressing the gas and dissipating the turbulent energy into the thermal energy. We here study shocks in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence using high-resolution…

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We study the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence taking into account the chiral anomaly effect. This chiral magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma is expected to be relevant for temperatures comparable to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Petar Pavlović , Günter Sigl

Plasma turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales and affects energetic particle transport. Recent advances in the understanding of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Ka Ho Yuen , Mijie Shi

The magnetopause marks the outer edge of the Earth's magnetosphere and a distinct boundary between solar wind and magnetospheric plasma populations. In this letter, we use global magnetohydrodynamic simulations to examine the response of…

The presence of turbulent phenomena in the outer solar atmosphere is a given. However, because we are reduced to remotely sensing the atmosphere of a star with instruments of limited spatial and/or spectral resolution, we can only infer the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Scott W. McIntosh , Christian Bethge , James Threlfall , Ineke De Moortel , Robert J. Leamon , Hui Tian

System-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves within Earth's magnetosphere are often understood theoretically using box models. While these have been highly instructive in understanding many fundamental features of the various wave modes…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 M. O. Archer , D. J. Southwood , M. D. Hartinger , L. Rastaetter , A. N. Wright

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in magnetized astrophysical plasmas, and it radically changes a great variety of astrophysical processes. In this review, we give the concept of MHD turbulence and explain the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Elena Popova , Alexandre Lazarian

We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in an expanding cosmic plasma. For this purpose we present a comprehensive theoretical model to consider the evolution of MHD turbulence that can be used over a wide range of physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Alexander G. Tevzadze

The interstellar turbulence is magnetized and thus anisotropic. The anisotropy of turbulent magnetic fields and velocities is imprinted in the related observables, rotation measures (RMs), and velocity centroids (VCs). This anisotropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Siyao Xu , Yue Hu

Understanding the nature of compressible fluctuations in a broad range of turbulent plasmas, from the intracluster medium to the solar wind, has been an active field of research in the past decades. Theoretical frameworks for weakly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , James R. Beattie , Amitava Bhattacharjee

A planet's magnetosheath extends from downstream of its bow shock up to the magnetopause where the solar wind flow is deflected around the magnetosphere and the solar wind embedded magnetic field lines are draped. This makes the region an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 A. H. Sulaiman , A. Masters , M. K. Dougherty , X. Jia

Recent research has shown that distinct physical regions in the Venusian induced magnetosphere are recognizable from the variations of strength and of wave/fluctuation activity of the magnetic field. In this paper the statistical properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Z. Vörös , T. L. Zhang , M. P. Leubner , M. Volwerk , M. Delva , W. Baumjohann , K. Kudela

Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic turbulence are: weakness of collisional dissipation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Olga Alexandrova , Christopher H. K. Chen , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Timothy S. Horbury , Stuart D. Bale

A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

We analyze the development and influence of turbulence in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause with parameters based on observations of an electron diffusion region by the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 L. Price , M Swisdak , J. F. Drake , D. B. Graham

Plasma turbulence is a ubiquitous dynamical process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales in astrophysical and space plasma systems. Although the theory of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Ka Ho Yuen , Huizi Wang

Models for GRB outflows invoke turbulence in relativistically hot magnetized fluids. In order to investigate these conditions we have performed high-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations of relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-29 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

The nature of MHD turbulence is analyzed through both temporal and spatial magnetic fluctuation spectra. A magnetically turbulent plasma is produced in the MHD wind-tunnel configuration of the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX). The…

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