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The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been suggested to have an important role on the dynamics of accretion disks. We investigate MRI as an alternative way for guiding the plasma from the disk to the funnel flow at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-08 S. Dogan , E. R. Pekunlu

We present a general linear dispersion relation which describes the coupled behavior of magnetorotational, photon bubble, and convective instabilities in weakly magnetized, differentially rotating accretion disks. We presume the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Omer Blaes , Aristotle Socrates

We consider the accretion process in a disk with magnetic fields that are dragged in from the interstellar medium by gravitational collapse. Two diffusive processes are at work in the system: (1) "viscous" torques exerted by turbulent and…

Activity of the nuclei of galaxies and stellar mass systems involving disk accretion to black holes is thought to be due to (1) a small-scale turbulent magnetic field in the disk (due to the magneto-rotational instability or MRI) which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 R. V. E. Lovelace , D. M. Rothstein , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We consider the evolution of accretion discs that contain some turbulence within a disc dead zone, a region about the disc midplane of a disc that is not sufficiently ionised for the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) to drive turbulence.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

This review article summarizes two decades of laboratory research aimed at understanding the dynamics of accretion disks, with particular emphasis on magnetohydrodynamic experiments involving liquid metals and plasmas. First, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Christophe Gissinger

The Tayler instability (TI) is a non-axisymmetric linear instability of an axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field in magneto-hydrostatic equilibrium (MHSE). Spruit (1999, 2002) has proposed that in a differentially rotating radiative region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 J. Goldstein , R. H. D. Townsend , E. G. Zweibel

The saturation level of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is adopted and the vertical component of gravity is ignored, so that the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Neal J. Turner , James M. Stone

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

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is considered to be a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. In contrast to accretion disks, radial buoyancy driven by entropy and lepton fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller

Gravitational instability (GI) features in several aspects of protostellar disk evolution, most notably in angular momentum transport, fragmentation, and the outbursts exemplified by FU Ori and EX Lupi systems. The outer regions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 A. Riols , H. Latter

The linear stability of global non-axisymmetric modes in differentially rotating, magnetized, non-ideal plasma is crucial for understanding turbulence and transport phenomena. We investigate the competition between the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Alexander Haywood , Fatima Ebrahimi

We construct stationary global configurations of both aligned and unaligned logarithmic spiral perturbations in a composite disc system of stellar and isopedically magnetized gaseous singular isothermal discs (SIDs) coupled by gravity. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Q. Lou , Y. Wu

Recently, the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an attractive purely hydrodynamic candidate for the anomalous angular momentum transport required for weakly ionized accretion disks. In direct three-dimensional numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Giovanni Picogna , Wilhelm Kley

Layered accretion is one of the inevitable ingredients in protoplanetary disks when disk turbulence is excited by magnetorotational instabilities (MRIs). In the accretion, disk surfaces where MRIs fully operate have a high value of disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Taku Takeuchi

Many accreting systems are modeled as geometrically thin disks. Simulations of accretion disks cannot be extended to this regime, although local models can address the behavior of narrow annuli. A global model needs to account for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Yossef Zenati , Ethan T. Vishniac , Amir Jafari

Using only physical mechanisms, i.e., 3D MHD with no phenomenological viscosity, we have simulated the dynamics of a moderately thin accretion disk subject to torques whose radial scaling mimics those produced by lowest-order post-Newtonian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

The aim of this paper is to clarify the stabilities of neutron stars with strong toroidal magnetic fields against non-axisymmetric perturbation. The motivation comes from the fact that super magnetized neutron stars of $\sim 10^{15}$G,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-21 Kenta Kiuchi , Shijun Yoshida , Masaru Shibata

The evolution of large-scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies is investigated numerically. The gasdynamical simulations in a disk perturbed by spiral or bar potential are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Chiba

A linear but global numerical model for the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in disk geometry is considered to estimate the instability parameters for galaxies. Similarity rules suggested by a local analysis are applied to reveal a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 L. L. Kitchatinov , G. Rüdiger