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We submit that non thermalized support for the outer intracluster medium in relaxed galaxy clusters is provided by turbulence, driven by inflows of intergalactic gas across the virial accretion shocks. We expect this component to increase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi , R. Fusco-Femiano

We extend earlier models of turbulent dynamos with an upper, nearly force-free exterior to spherical geometry, and study how flux emerges from lower layers to the upper ones without being driven by magnetic buoyancy. We also study how this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg , Dhrubaditya Mitra

In this paper we explore the relationship between protostellar outflows and turbulence in molecular clouds. Using 3-D numerical simulations we focus on the hydrodynamics of multiple outflows interacting within a parsec scale volume. We…

The heat transport in the solar wind is dominated by the suprathermal electron populations, i.e., a tenuous halo and a field-aligned beam/strahl, with high energies and antisunward drifts along the magnetic field. Their evolution may offer…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 R. A. López , M. Lazar , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , P. S. Moya

We study the effects of externally imposed turbulence on the thermal properties of galaxy cluster cores, using three-dimensional numerical simulations including magnetic fields, anisotropic thermal conduction, and radiative cooling. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

Incompressible and isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in plasms can be described by an exact relation for the energy flux through the scales. This Yaglom-like scaling law has been recently observed in the solar wind above the solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Carbone , R. Marino , L. Sorriso-Valvo , A. Noullez , R. Bruno

Observations of nearby molecular clouds detect "shells", which are likely caused by winds from young main sequence stars. However, the progenitors of these observed features are not well characterized and the mass-loss rates inferred from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 S. S. R. Offner , H. G. Arce

Stochastic heating is a non-linear heating mechanism driven by the violation of magnetic moment invariance due to large-amplitude turbulent fluctuations producing diffusion of ions towards higher kinetic energies in the direction…

Freshly injected interstellar Pickup Ions (PUIs) are expected to exhibit a simple, torus-shaped velocity distribution function. The PUI velocity in the solar wind frame depends on the velocity of the interstellar neutral (ISN) population at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Duncan Keilbach , Verena Heidrich-Meisner , Lars Berger , Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

The flux transport dynamo, in which the poloidal magnetic field is generated by the Babcock--Leighton mechanism and the meridional circulation plays a crucial role, has emerged as an attractive model for the solar cycle. Based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Planetary habitability is in part determined by the atmospheric evolution of a planet; one key component of such evolution is escape of heavy ions to space. Ion loss processes are sensitive to the plasma environment of the planet, dictated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hilary Egan , Riku Jarvinen , David Brain

Plasma turbulence cascading from MHD to kinetic scales in the heliospheric plasma is believed to play a key role in coronal heating and fast solar wind acceleration, but the properties of the turbulence remain poorly constrained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Alexander Pitna

The connection between turbulence and solar-wind acceleration, long known in space physics, is further developed in this Letter by establishing a robust empirical law that relates the bulk-flow speed to the magnetohydrodynamic-scale…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rohit Chhiber , Yanwen Wang , Manuel E. Cuesta , Jiaming Wang , Sohom Roy

The $\textit{Parker Solar Probe}$ ($\textit{PSP}$) mission has observed near-continuous power in parallel ion cyclotron waves (PICWs) in the young, fast solar wind. These waves are unlikely to be directly produced by the turbulent cascade…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Evan L. Yerger , Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Vincent David , Trevor A. Bowen , Stuart D. Bale

The coupling of Jupiter's magnetosphere and ionosphere plays a vital role in creating its auroral emissions. The strength of these emissions is dependent on the difference in speed of the rotational flows within Jupiter's high-latitude…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. N. Yates , N. Achilleos , P. Guio

It is widely reported that the power spectra of magnetic field and velocity fluctuations in the solar wind have power law scalings with inertial-range spectral indices of -5/3 and -3/2 respectively. Studies of solar wind turbulence have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Trevor A. Bowen , Alfred Mallet , John W. Bonnell , Stuart D. Bale

We propose that inward, subsonic flows arise from the local dissipation of turbulent motions in molecular clouds. Such "turbulent cooling flows" may account for recent observations of spatially extended inward motions towards dense cores.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Myers , A. Lazarian

In hot and ultra-hot Jupiters, stellar irradiation is a primary driver of atmospheric circulation and the wave structures that sustain it. We aim to investigate how variations in radiative and dynamical timescales influence global flow…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 C. Akın , K. Heng , J. M. Mendonça , R. Deitrick , L. Gkouvelis

We use three-dimensional MHD simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction to study turbulence due to the magnetothermal instability (MTI) in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. The MTI grows on timescales of ~1 Gyr and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian J. Parrish , Michael McCourt , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

We rewrite Poynting's theorem, already used in a previous publication (Treumann & Baumjohann 2017) to derive relations between the turbulent magnetic and electric power spectral densities, to make explicit where the mechanical contributions…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann