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We use analytic calculations and time-dependent spherically-symmetric simulations to study the properties of isothermal galactic winds driven by cosmic-rays (CRs) streaming at the Alfv\'en velocity. The simulations produce time-dependent…

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In present article we consider the problems of concentrated point force which is moving with constant velocity and oscillating with cyclic frequency in unbounded homogeneous anisotropic elastic two-dimensional medium. The properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Iovane , A. V. Nasedkin , M. Ciarletta

Blow-up solutions to a heat equation with spatial periodicity and a quadratic nonlinearity are studied through asymptotic analyses and a variety of numerical methods. The focus is on the dynamics of the singularities in the complexified…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-08 M. Fasondini , J. R. King , J. A. C. Weideman

From the the solar photosphere to the outer heliosphere, the Sun's plasma properties are fluctuating with a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. In fact, a turbulent cascade of energy from large to small scales is a frequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Steven R. Cranmer

The paper develops a theoretical relationship between the polytropic index and the temperature anisotropy that may characterize space plasmas. The derivation is based on the correlation among the kinetic energies of particles with…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 George Livadiotis , George Nicolaou

The theory of radiation-driven winds succeeded in describing terminal velocities and mass loss rates of massive stars. However, for A-type supergiants the standard m-CAK solution predicts values of mass loss and terminal velocity higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Cure , L. Cidale , A. Granada

The properties of the solar wind, as measured in situ throughout the heliosphere, depend both on the characteristics of its coronal source and on the intrinsic processes governing its interplanetary evolution. Recently, radial and Parker…

Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) are recurring structures in the solar wind, characterized by interactions between fast and slow solar wind streams that compress and heat plasma. This study investigates the polytropic behavior of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 M. A. Dayeh , M. J. Starkey , G. Livadiotis , S. Hart , A. A. Shmies , R. C. Allen , R. Bučik , H. Elliott

In contrast with the fast solar wind, that originates in coronal holes, the source of the slow solar wind is still debated. Often intermittent and enriched with low FIP elements -- akin to what is observed in closed coronal loops -- the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Victor Réville , Marco Velli , Alexis Rouillard , Benoit Lavraud , Anna Tenerani , Chen Shi , Antoine Strugarek

The solar corona and young solar wind may be characterized by critical surfaces -- the sonic, Alfv\'en, and first plasma-$\beta$ unity surfaces -- that demarcate regions where the solar wind flow undergoes certain crucial transformations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rohit Chhiber , Arcadi V. Usmanov , William H. Matthaeus , Melvyn L. Goldstein

In a magnetised plasma on scales well above ion kinetic scales, any constant-magnitude magnetic field, accompanied by parallel Alfv\'enic flows, forms a nonlinear solution in an isobaric, constant-density background. These structures, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Jonathan Squire , Alfred Mallet

In the solar wind an equipartition of kinetic energy densities can be easily established between thermal and suprathermal electrons and the instability conditions are markedly altered by the interplay of these two populations. The new…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , P. H. Yoon , S. Poedts

In the presence of self-gravity, we investigate the self-similar dynamics of a relativistically hot gas with or without shocks in astrophysical processes of stellar core collapse, formation of compact objects, and supernova remnants with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu-Qing Lou , Yi Cao

Aims: Our goal is to develop methodologies to seamlessly track transient solar wind flows viewed by coronagraphs or heliospheric imagers from rapidly varying viewpoints. Methods: We constructed maps of intensity versus time and elongation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 A. Nindos , S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , P. C. Liewer , P. Penteado , J. R. Hall

We combine different measurements of the polytropic index of the proton plasma in the heliosphere: i) near-adiabatic index in the inner heliosphere ~1AU, ii) subadiabatic indices in the outer heliosphere ~20-40AU, and iii) near-zero indices…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 George Livadiotis

Self-similar and semi-analytical solutions are found for the height-averaged equations govern the dynamical behavior of a polytropic, self-gravitating disk under the effects of winds, around the nascent object. In order to describe time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shahram Abbassi , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Mohsen Shadmehri

Clumping in the winds of massive stars may significantly reduce empirical mass-loss rates, and which in turn may have a large impact on our understanding of massive star evolution. Here, we investigate wind-clumping through the linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 Ben Davies , Jorick S. Vink , René D. Oudmaijer

In general, slow solar wind from the streamer belt forms a high plasma beta equatorial plasma sheet around the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) crossing, namely the heliospheric plasma sheet (HPS). Current Parker Solar Probe (PSP)…

We present a mathematical model for the propagation of the shock waves that occur during planetary collisions. Such collisions are thought to occur during the formation of terrestrial planets, and they have the potential to erode the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-19 Almog Yalinewich , Andrey Remorov

In this work we study the influence of isotropic and anisotropic fluids on the spherically symmetric warp metric. We evaluate the energy conditions and the influence of including a cosmological constant type term. We find that, considering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Gabriel Abellán , Nelson Bolívar , Ivaylo Vasilev