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Context. Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is a component of interstellar medium emission peaking at 10-60 GHz. Its polarization is both a CMB foreground and a probe of the alignment physics of very small dust grains. Aims. We quantify…

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Angular momentum transport and particle acceleration during the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a collisionless accretion disk are investigated using three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. We show that the kinetic MRI…

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A precise theoretical investigation has been made on dust-acoustic (DA) waves (DAWs) in a four components dusty plasma medium having inertial warm adiabatic dust grains and inertialess $q$-distributed electrons as well as isothermal ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 M. H. Rahman , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

Previous theoretical works have shown that in optically thin disks, dust grains are photoelectrically stripped of electrons by starlight, heating nearby gas and possibly creating a dust clumping instability, the photoelectric instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Alexander J. W. Richert , Wladimir Lyra , Marc Kuchner

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

Dust concentration in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) is the first step towards planetesimal formation, a crucial yet highly uncertain stage in planet formation. Although the streaming instability (SI) is widely recognized as a powerful…

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In the evolutionary path of interstellar medium inquiry, many new species of interstellar dust have been modeled and discovered. The modes by which these species interact and evolve are beginning to be understood, but in recent years a…

The streaming instability, a promising mechanism to drive planetesimal formation in dusty protoplanetary discs, relies on aerodynamic drag naturally induced by the background radial pressure gradient. This gradient should vary in disks, but…

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Weakly collisional space plasmas are rarely in local thermal equilibrium and often exhibit non-Maxwellian electron and ion velocity distributions that lead to the growth of microinstabilities, that is, enhanced electric and magnetic fields…

Employing an attenuated oscillation method, the anisotropic interaction force between two vertically aligned dust particles located in the sheath of a complex plasma was measured experimentally based on a linear approximation to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jie Kong , Truell W. Hyde , Brandon Harris , Ke Qiao , Jorge Carmona Reyes

We use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of a collisionless, electron-ion plasma with a decreasing background magnetic field, $B$, to study the effect of velocity-space instabilities on the viscous heating and thermal conduction of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-27 Mario Riquelme , Eliot Quataert , Daniel Verscharen

The naturally persistent flow of hundreds of dust particles is experimentally achieved in a dusty plasma system with the asymmetric sawteeth of gears on the electrode. It is also demonstrated that the direction of the dust particle flowcan…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Ya-feng He , Bao-quan Ai , Chao-xing Dai , Chao Song , Rui-qi Wang , Wen-tao Sun , Fu-cheng Liu , Yan Feng

We report the finding of a new, local diffusion instability in a protoplanetary disk, which can operate in a dust fluid, subject to mass diffusion, shear viscosity, and dust-gas drag, provided diffusivity, viscosity, or both decrease…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Konstantin Gerbig , Min-Kai Lin , Marius Lehmann

The peculiar motion of the Earth causes a dipole anisotropy modulation in the distant galaxy distribution due to the aberration effect. However, the amplitude and angular direction of the effect is not necessarily the same as those of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Kazuhiro Yahata , Masahiro Takada

Complex plasmas consist of microparticles embedded in a low-temperature plasma and allow investigating various effects by tracing the motion of these microparticles. Dust density waves appear in complex plasmas as self-excited acoustic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 P. Bajaj , S. Khrapak , V. Yaroshenko , M. Schwabe

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability driven by a flowing dusty plasma when it cross through a static (target) dusty plasma (the so-called permeating dusty plasma) are investigated when the components of the dusty plasma obey the…

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In this work we study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a quark-gluon plasma, as created in heavy-ion collisions. We investigate how big of a role plasma instabilities can play in the isotropization and equilibration of a quark-gluon plasma.…

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In this paper, the collective dynamics of the large aspect ratio dusty plasma is studied over a wide range of discharge parameters. An inductively coupled diffused plasma, which creates an electrostatic trap to confine the negatively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Mangilal Choudhary , S. Mukherjee , P. Bandyopadhyay

Using numerical simulations, we examine the structure and diffusion of a two-dimensional dusty plasma (2DDP) in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic substrate (1DPS) as a function of increasing substrate strength. Both the pair…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Kang Wang , Wei Li , Dong Huang , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt , M. S. Murillo , Yan Feng

Scattering of re-emitted flux is considered to be at least partially responsible for the observed polarisation in the (sub-)millimetre wavelength range of several protoplanetary disks. Although the degree of polarisation produced by…

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