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Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

The turbulence driven by gravitational instabilities (GIs) can amplify magnetic fields in massive gaseous disks. This GI dynamo may appear in young circumstellar disks, whose weak ionization challenges other amplification routes, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 William Béthune , Henrik Latter

A self-gravitating, differentially rotating galactic disc under vertical hydrostatic equilibrium is supported by the vertical pressure gradient force against the gravitational collapse. Such discs are known to support various bending modes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-13 Sagar S. Goyary , Kanak Saha , H. Shanjit Singh , Suchira Sarkar

The origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields as well as the influence of the magnetic fields on the evolution of galaxies are unknown. Though not without challenges, the dynamo theory can explain the large-scale coherent magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 F. S. Tabatabaei , T. P. K. Martinsson , J. H. Knapen , J. E. Beckman , B. Koribalski , B. G. Elmegreen

(Abridged) Based on the rapidly increasing all-sky data of Faraday rotation measures and polarised synchrotron radiation, the Milky Way's magnetic field is now modelled with an unprecedented level of detail and complexity. We aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Oliver Gressel , Detlef Elstner , Udo Ziegler

Magneto-rotational instability (MRI) and gravitational instability (GI) are the two principle routes to turbulent angular momentum transport in accretion disks. Protoplanetary disks may develop both. This paper aims to reinvigorate interest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Min-Kai Lin

As was demonstrated in earlier studies, turbulence can result in a negative contribution to the effective mean magnetic pressure, which, in turn, can cause a large-scale instability. In this study, hydromagnetic mean-field modelling is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 K. Kemel , A. Brandenburg , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

The effect of cosmic rays on the Parker-Jeans instability in magnetized self-gravitating gaseous disks is studied by three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with cosmic rays taken as a massless fluid with notable pressure.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Takuhito Kuwabara , Chung Ming Ko

A fully three-dimensional computation of induction processes in a disk is performed to investigate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in gas-rich barred and spiral galaxies in the presence of field diffusion. As input parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. von Linden , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , H. Lesch , G. Skupniewicz

We present the results of linear analysis and two-dimensional local magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the Parker instability, including the effects of cosmic rays (CRs), in magnetized gas disks (galactic disks). As an unperturbed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takuhito Kuwabara , Kenji Nakamura , C. M. Ko

We consider the three-dimensional instability of a layer of horizontal magnetic field in a polytropic atmosphere where, contrary to previous studies, the field lines in the initial state are not unidirectional. We show that if the twist is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 B. F. N. Favier , L. Jouve , W. Edmunds , L. J. Silvers , M. R. E. Proctor

Recently, Silvers, Vasil, Brummell, & Proctor (2009), using numerical simulations, confirmed the existence of a double diffusive magnetic buoyancy instability of a layer of horizontal magnetic field produced by the interaction of a shear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lara J. Silvers , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Nicholas H. Brummell , Michael R. E. Proctor

The Rossby wave instability, associated with density bumps in differentially rotating discs, may arise in several different astrophysical contexts, such as galactic or protoplanetary discs. While the linear phase of the instability has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Meheut , R. V. E. Lovelace , D. Lai

Jetted astrophysical phenomena with black hole (BH) engines, including binary mergers, jetted tidal disruption events, and X-ray binaries, require a large-scale vertical magnetic field for efficient jet formation. However, a dynamo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , François Rincon , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Matthew Liska

Via amplification by turbulent dynamo, magnetic fields can be potentially important for the formation of the first stars. To examine the dynamo behavior during the gravitational collapse of primordial gas, we extend the theory of nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

Arguably the main challenge of galactic magnetism studies is to explain how the interstellar medium of galaxies reaches energetic equipartition despite the extremely weak cosmic primordial magnetic fields that are originally predicted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

This work examines the effect of the embedded magnetic field strength on the non-linear development of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) (with a field-aligned interface) in an ideal gas close to the incompressible limit in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jack Carlyle , Andrew Hillier

We investigate the build-up of the galactic dynamo and subsequently the origin of a magnetic driven outflow. We use a setup of an isolated disc galaxy with a realistic circum-galactic medium (CGM). We find good agreement of the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Benjamin P. Moster , Andreas Burkert , Almudena Prieto

We present results of three-dimensional, fully nonlinear MHD simulations of a large-scale magnetic field evolution in a barred galaxy. The model does not take into consideration the dynamo process. We find that the obtained magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Kulesza-Żydzik , K. Kulpa-Dybeł , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , G. Kowal , M. Soida

Low-mass galaxies radio observations show in many cases surprisingly high levels of magnetic field. The mass and kinematics of such objects do not favour the development of effective large-scale dynamo action. We attempted to check if the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Hubert Siejkowski , Marian Soida , Krzysztof T. Chyzy