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We investigate the stability to nonaxisymmetric perturbations of an accretion disc in which a poloidal magnetic field provides part of the radial support against gravity. Interchange instability due to radial gradients in the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. C. Spruit , R. Stehle , J. C. B. Papaloizou

We carried out global three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of galactic gaseous disks to investigate how the galactic magnetic fields are amplified and maintained. We adopt a steady axisymmetric gravitational potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiromitsu Nishikori , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

We consider the radial buoyancy of vertical magnetic field lines in radiation and gas pressure dominated accretion disks. We find that in addition to radial drift driven by turbulent diffusion and biased by the global field geometry, there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Seok Jae Park , Ethan T. Vishniac

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

For over 30 years, the Magneto-Rotational Instability has been accepted as the mechanism driving accretion disk turbulence. Its physical basis is well understood, where an interplay between centrifugal forces and magnetic tension transfers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-31 Nicolas Brughmans , Rony Keppens

To power gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy events, large-scale magnetic fields are required to extract rotational energy from compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Alexis Reboul-Salze , Loren E. Held , Kenta Kiuchi

We examine the MHD instabilities arising in the radiation zone of a differentially rotating star, in which a poloidal field of fossil origin is sheared into a toroidal field. We focus on the non-axisymmetric instability that affects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -P. Zahn , A. S. Brun , S. Mathis

(Abriged) The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to be an efficient way to transport angular momentum in accretion discs. It has also been suggested as a way to amplify magnetic fields in discs, the instability acting as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lesur , G. I. Ogilvie

Magnetars are highly magnetized neutron stars that can produce X-ray and soft gamma-ray emissions and that have a dipole of $10^{14}$ G to $10^{15}$ G. A promising mechanism for explaining magnetar formation is magnetic field amplification…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-22 Alexis Reboul-Salze , Jérôme Guilet , Raphaël Raynaud , Matteo Bugli

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

By performing a global magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation for the Milky Way with an axisymmetric gravitational potential, we propose that spatially dependent amplification of magnetic fields possibly explains the observed noncircular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Takeru K. Suzuki , Yasuo Fukui , Kazufumi Torii , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , Kensuke Kakiuchi

We study the effect of large-scale magnetic fields on the non-axisymmetric Rossby wave instability (RWI) in accretion discs. The instability develops around a density bump, which is likely present in the transition region between the active…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Cong Yu , Dong Lai

Irregular galaxies are usually smaller and less massive than their spiral, S0, and elliptical counterparts. Radio observations indicate that a magnetic field is present in irregular galaxies whose value is similar to that in spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Siejkowski , M. Soida , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Hanasz , D. J. Bomans

Magnetorotational turbulence and magnetically driven disc winds are often considered as separate processes. However, realistic astrophysical discs are expected to be subject to both effects, although possibly at different times and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Geoffroy Lesur , Jonathan Ferreira , Gordon Ogilvie

Radio continuum observations allow to reveal the magnetic field structure in the disk and halo of nearby spiral galaxies, their magnetic field strength and vertical scale heights. The spiral galaxies studied so far show a similar magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-08 Marita Krause

Recent spectropolarimetric surveys of main-sequence intermediate-mass stars have exhibited a dichotomy in the distribution of the observed magnetic field between the kG dipoles of Ap/Bp stars and the sub-Gauss magnetism of Vega and Sirius.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Mathieu Gaurat , Laurène Jouve , François Lignières , Thomas Gastine

We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in magnetized and differentially rotating stars in full general relativity. Our focus is on the effects that magnetic fields have on the dynamics and the onset…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Luca Franci , Roberto De Pietri , Kyriaki Dionysopoulou , Luciano Rezzolla

Previous theoretical work has speculated about the existence of double-diffusive magnetic buoyancy instabilities of a dynamically evolving horizontal magnetic layer generated by the interaction of forced vertically sheared velocity and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Lara J. Silvers , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Nicholas H. Brummell , Michael R. E. Proctor

We generalize the mean field magnetic dynamo to include local evolution of the mean vorticity in addition to the mean magnetic field. The coupled equations exhibit a general mean field dynamo instability that enables the transfer of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric G. Blackman , Tom Chou

We study global non-axisymmetric stationary perturbations of aligned and unaligned logarithmic spiral configurations in an axisymmetric composite differentially rotating disc system of scale-free stellar and isopedically magnetized gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Xiang-Gruess , Y. -Q. Lou , W. J. Duschl