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We simulate the multi-phase interstellar medium randomly heated and stirred by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters of the solar neighbourhood. Here we describe in detail both numerical and physical aspects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-03 F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , G. R. Sarson , M. J. Mantere

We examine the linear stability and nonlinear growth of the thermal instability in isobarically contracting gas with various metallicities and FUV field strengths. When the H2 cooling is suppressed by FUV fields (G_0>10^-3) or the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kazuyuki Omukai

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

The relationship between a decaying strong turbulence and kinetic instabilities in a slowly expanding plasma is investigated using two-dimensional (2-D) hybrid expanding box simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field…

The interstellar medium (ISM) is subject, on one hand, to heating and cooling processes that tend to segregate it into distinct phases due to thermal instability (TI), and on the other, to turbulence-driving mechanisms that tend to produce…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-06 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM) is driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets, by mergers, and in the wakes of infalling galaxies. It not only governs gas motion but also plays a key role in the ICM thermodynamics. Turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Mrinal Jetti , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath

The gas-phase metallicity affects heating and cooling processes in the star-forming galactic interstellar medium (ISM) as well as ionising luminosities, wind strengths, and lifetimes of massive stars. To investigate its impact, we conduct…

Context. Amongst many plasma processes potentially relevant to the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM), turbulence driven at observable scales by internal magnetised buoyancy instabilities like the magneto-thermal instability (MTI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-30 Jean M. Kempf , Francois Rincon , Nicolas Clerc

The effect of Alfv\'en waves on the thermal instability of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) is investigated both analytically and numerically. A stability analysis of a finite amplitude circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave propagating parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Hennebelle , T. Passot

(Shortened) Thermal instability of partially ionized plasma is investigated by linear perturbation analysis. According to the previous studies under the one fluid approach, the thermal instability is suppressed due to the magnetic pressure.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tsubasa Fukue , Hideyuki Kamaya

Several different methods are regularly used to infer the properties of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) using atomic hydrogen (H I) 21cm absorption and emission spectra. In this work, we study various techniques used for inferring ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-27 Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee , Nirupam Roy , Prateek Sharma , Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

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 use three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations to study phase transformations occurring in a clumpy interstellar gas exposed to time-dependent volumetric heating. To mimic conditions in the Galactic interstellar medium, we take…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks are prone to thermal instability (TI), which can significantly impact the thermal and dynamic evolution of planet-forming regions. Observable as episodic accretion outbursts, such periodic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Michael Cecil , Mario Flock

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

Turbulence in the weakly collisional intracluster medium of galaxies (ICM) is able to generate strong thermal velocity anisotropies in the ions (with respect to the local magnetic field direction), if the magnetic moment of the particles is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 R. Santos-Lima , H. Yan , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

Models fail to reproduce observations of the coldest parts of the Sun's atmosphere, where interactions between multiple ionized and neutral species prevent an accurate MHD representation. This paper argues that a meter-scale electrostatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Samuel Evans , Meers Oppenheim , Juan Martínez-Sykora , Yakov Dimant , Richard Xiao

The processes controlling the complex clump structure, phase distribution, and magnetic field geometry that develops across a broad range of scales in the turbulent interstellar medium remains unclear. Using unprecedentedly high resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Drummond B. Fielding , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

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

Context: The thermal instability is one of the dynamical agents for turbulence in the diffuse interstellar medium, where both, turbulence and thermal instability interact in a highly non-linear manner. Aims: We study basic properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Seifried , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer