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The features for the unsteady process of thermal equilibration ("the fast motions") in a one-dimensional harmonic crystal lying in a viscous environment (e.g., a gas) are under investigation. It is assumed that initially the displacements…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-16 Serge N. Gavrilov , Anton M. Krivtsov

We study the instability of de Sitter space-time (dS) under thermal radiation in different vacua. We argue that the mode function solution of a scalar field in four-dimensional dS can be separated into the incoming and outgoing modes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Min-Seok Seo

During the last decade it has become evident that the magnetorotational instability is at the heart of the enhanced angular momentum transport in weakly magnetized accretion disks around neutron stars and black holes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin E. Pessah , Dimitrios Psaltis

We study black holes in AdS-like spacetimes, with the horizon given by an arbitrary positive curvature Einstein metric. A criterion for classical instability of such black holes is found in the large and small black hole limits. Examples of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Sean A. Hartnoll

This study investigates Parker instability in an interstellar medium (ISM) near the Galactic plane using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Parker instability arises from the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-06 Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko , Chih-Yueh Wang

Self-similar solutions provide good descriptions for the gravitational collapse of spherical clouds or stars when the gas obeys a polytropic equation of state, $p=K\rho^\gamma$ (with $\gamma\le 4/3$). We study the behaviors of nonradial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dong Lai

We study the thermal equilibrium and stability of isobaric, spherical structures having a radiation source located at its center. The thermal conduction coefficient, external heating and cooling rates are represented as power laws of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Nestor Sanchez , Eugenio Lopez

This letter expands the stability criterion for radially stratified, vertically {unstratified} accretion disks incorporating thermal relaxation. We find a linear amplification of epicyclic oscillations in these disks that depends on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hubert Klahr , Alexander Hubbard

We study the linear response of relativistic superfluids with a non-zero superfluid velocity. For sufficiently large superflow, an instability develops via the crossing of a pole of the retarded Green's functions to the upper half complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Daniel Areán , Blaise Goutéraux , Eric Mefford , Filippo Sottovia

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is carried out to identify the conditions for stability as functions of the wave vector, the dissipation, and the density. In contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vicente Garzo

We discuss the temperature distribution in a two-dimensional, thermally unstable numerical simulation of the warm and cold gas in the Galactic disk, including the magnetic field, self-gravity, the Coriolis force, stellar energy injection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Gazol , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , J. Scalo

We analytically study the dynamical and thermal properties of the optically-thin gases at the parsec-scale when they are spherically accreted onto low luminous active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs). The falling gases are irradiated by the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Han-Wen Sun , Xiao-Hong Yang

The stability of a dilute plasma to local convective and rotational disturbances is examined. A subthermal magnetic field and finite thermal conductivity along the field lines are included in the analysis. Stability criteria similar in form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Steven A. Balbus

Thermal instability (TI) is a trigger mechanism, which can explain the formation of small condensations through some regions of the interstellar clouds. The instability criterion for flat geometry approximations has been investigated in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

We have shown that there exists low-frequency growing modes driven by a global temperature gradient in electron and ion plasmas, by linear perturbation analysis within the frame work of plasma Kinetic theory. The driving force of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Hattori , Keiichi Umetsu

We investigate electromagnetic buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach when the momentum equations are solved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Anatoly Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

An analytical model of high frequency oscillations of the kinetic and potential energies in a one-dimensional harmonic crystal with a substrate potential is obtained by introducing the nonlocal energies [1]. A generalization of the kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 Mikhail B. Babenkov , Anton M. Krivtsov , Denis V. Tsvetkov

The back-reaction of the perturbed thermal equilibrium in the solar corona on compressive perturbations, also known as the effect of wave-induced thermal misbalance, is known to result in thermal instabilities chiefly responsible for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Joseph B. Fihosy

Linear gyro-kinetic stability calculations predict unstable toroidal Ion Temperature Gradient modes with normalised poloidal wave vectors well above one ($k_\theta \rho_i > 1$) for standard parameters and with adiabatic electrons. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Pierluigi Migliano , Yann Camenen , Francis Casson , William Hornsby , Arthur Peeters

In previous papers, we have shown that, as the rotation of a neutron star slows down, it will be internally heated as a consequence of the progressively changing mix of particles (rotochemical heating). In previously studied cases…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-13 Cristobal Petrovich , Andreas Reisenegger