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In this paper, results of 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations are reported for the magnetic reconnection of non-perfectly antiparallel magnetic fields. The magnetic field has a component perpendicular to the computational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiromitsu Kigure , Kunio Takahashi , Kazunari Shibata , Takaaki Yokoyama , Satoshi Nozawa

We examine the role of Alfven wave damping in heating the plasma in the magnetic funnels of magnetospheric accretion models of young stars. We study four different damping mechanisms of the Alfven waves: nonlinear, turbulent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. J. Vasconcelos , V. Jatenco-Pereira , R. Opher

Hot subdwarfs are helium burning objects in late stages of their evolution. These stars can develop winds driven by light absorption in the lines of heavier elements. The wind strength depends on chemical composition which can significantly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 J. Krticka , J. Janik , I. Krtickova , S. Mereghetti , F. Pintore , P. Nemeth , J. Kubat , M. Vuckovic

Massive protostars attain high luminosities as they are actively accreting and the radiation pressure exerted on the gas in the star's atmosphere may launch isotropic high-velocity winds. These winds will collide with the surrounding gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Anna L. Rosen

Context. It has been suggested that convection in Red Supergiant (RSG) stars gives rise to large-scale granules causing observable surface inhomogeneities. This convection is also extremely vigorous, and suspected to be one of the causes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Chiavassa , B. Plez , E. Josselin , B. Freytag

Alfv\'{e}nic component of MHD turbulence damps Alfv\'{e}nic waves. The consequences of this effect are important for many processes, from cosmic ray (CR) propagation to launching outflows and winds in galaxies and other magnetized systems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-17 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu

Interstellar bubbles around O stars are driven by a combination of the star's wind and ionizing radiation output. The wind contribution is uncertain because the boundary between the wind and interstellar medium is difficult to observe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-10 Jonathan Mackey , Vasilii V. Gvaramadze , Shazrene Mohamed , Norbert Langer

To understand magnetic diffusion, momentum transport, and mixing in the interior of the sun, we consider an idealized model of the tachocline, namely magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence on a $\beta$ plane subject to a large scale shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

Recent low-frequency array (LOFAR) radio signal detections bearing from the $\tau$ Bo\"otis system have been cautiously attributed to auroral emissions from the hot Jupiter $\tau$ Bo\"otis Ab. The auroral emissions are believed to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Dag Evensberget , Aline A. Vidotto , Filip Elekes , Sandra V. Jeffers , Rik T. Luisman

A significative fraction of all massive stars in the Milky Way move supersonically through their local interstellar medium (ISM), producing bow shock nebulae by wind-ISM interaction. The stability of these observed astrospheres around cool…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 D. M. -A. Meyer , A. Mignone , M. Petrov , K. Scherer , P. F. Velazquez , P. Boumis

According to dynamo theory, stars with convective envelopes efficiently generate surface magnetic fields, which manifest as magnetic activity in the form of starspots, faculae, flares, when their rotation period is shorter than their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Charlotte Gehan , Patrick Gaulme , Jie Yu

Massive stars lose a large fraction of their mass to radiation-driven winds throughout their entire life. These outflows impact both the life and death of these stars and their surroundings. Theoretical mass-loss rates of hot, massive stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 R. Björklund , J. O. Sundqvist , S. M. Singh , J. Puls , F. Najarro

In this paper we present the first set of 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations performed with the riemann geomesh code. We study the dynamics of the magnetically channeled winds of magnetic massive stars in full three dimensions using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Sethupathy Subramanian , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Asif ud-Doula , Marc Gagné

Many massive stars travel through the interstellar medium at supersonic speeds. As a result they form bow shocks at the interface between the stellar wind. We use numerical hydrodynamics to reproduce such bow shocks numerically, creating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Allard Jan van Marle , Leen Decin , Nick Cox , Zakaria Meliani

We study the evolution of the interstellar and circumstellar media around massive stars (M > 40M_{\odot}) from the main sequence through to the Wolf-Rayet stage by means of radiationhydrodynamic simulations. We use publicly available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. A. Toalá , S. J. Arthur

We present a comprehensive study about the phenomenological implications of the theory describing Galactic cosmic-ray scattering onto magnetosonic and Alfv\'enic fluctuations in the $\mathrm{GeV} - \mathrm{PeV}$ domain. We compute a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Ottavio Fornieri , Daniele Gaggero , Silvio Sergio Cerri , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Stefano Gabici

Using a three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation, we have reproduced the fast solar wind in a direct and self-consistent manner, based on the wave/turbulence driven scenario. As a natural consequence of Alfvenic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Munehito Shoda , Takeru Ken Suzuki , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi , Takaaki Yokoyama

Winds of AGB stars are thought to be driven by a combination of pulsation-induced shock waves and radiation pressure on dust. In dynamic atmosphere and wind models, the stellar pulsation is often simulated by prescribing a simple sinusoidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 S. Liljegren , S. Höfner , W. Nowotny , K. Eriksson

The escape of cosmic rays from the Galaxy leads to a gradient in the cosmic ray pressure that acts as a force on the background plasma, in the direction opposite to the gravitational pull. If this force is large enough to win against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 S. Recchia , P. Blasi , G. Morlino

We develop 3-D models of the structured winds of massive hot stars with the Wind3D radiative transfer (RT) code. We investigate the physical properties of large-scale structures observed in the wind of the B-type supergiant HD 64760 with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 A. Lobel , J. A. Toalá , R. Blomme