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Magnetic fields grow quickly even at early cosmological times, suggesting the action of a small-scale dynamo (SSD) in the interstellar medium of galaxies. Many studies have focused on idealized turbulent driving of the SSD. Here we simulate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Kapyla , Nishant K. Singh

We present a brief summary of asphericity effects in thermonuclear and core collapse supernovae (SN), and how to distinguish the underlying physics by their observable signatures. Electron scattering is the dominant process to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hoeflich , C. Gerardy , R. Quimby

Galaxies comprise intricate networks of interdependent processes which together govern their evolution. Central among these are the multiplicity of feedback channels, which remain incompletely understood. One outstanding problem is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Brent Tan , Drummond B. Fielding

Supersonic turbulence is an essential element in understanding how structure within interstellar gas is created and shaped. In the context of star formation, many computational studies show that the mass spectrum of density and velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Ralph E. Pudritz , N. K. -R. Kevlahan

We conduct a series of numerical experiments into the nature of three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamics in the postbounce stalled-shock phase of core-collapse supernovae using 3D general-relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 E. Abdikamalov , C. D. Ott , D. Radice , L. F. Roberts , R. Haas , C. Reisswig , P. Moesta , H. Klion , E. Schnetter

Planetary and magnetohydrodynamic drift-wave turbulence is observed to self-organize into large scale structures such as zonal jets and coherent vortices. In this Letter we present a non-equilibrium statistical theory, the Stochastic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Nikolaos A. Bakas , Petros J. Ioannou

Supernova explosions, active galactic nuclei jets, galaxy--galaxy interactions and cluster mergers can drive turbulence in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and in the intracluster medium (ICM). However, the exact nature of turbulence forced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

We present results of large-scale three-dimensional simulations of weakly magnetized supersonic turbulence at grid resolutions up to 1024^3 cells. Our numerical experiments are carried out with the Piecewise Parabolic Method on a Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-13 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

We explore what dominant physical mechanism sets the kinetic energy contained in neutral, atomic (HI) gas. We compare the HI line widths predicted from turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and magneto-rotational instability (MRI)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Tamburro , H. -W. Rix , A. K. Leroy , M. -M. Mac Low , F. Walter , R. C. Kennicutt , E. Brinks , W. J. G. de Blok

Turbulence and angular momentum transport in accretion disks remains a topic of debate. With the realization that dead zones are robust features of protoplanetary disks, the search for hydrodynamical sources of turbulence continues. A…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 W. Lyra , H. Klahr

Nonequilibrium condensate systems such as exciton-polariton condensates are capable of supporting a spontaneous vortex nucleation. The spatial inhomogeneity of pumping field or/and disordered potential creates velocity flow fields that may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-08 Natalia G. Berloff

In the interstellar medium the turbulence is believed to be forced mostly through supernova explosions. In a first approximation these flows can be written as a gradient of a potential being thus devoid of vorticity. There are several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-19 Fabio Del Sordo , Axel Brandenburg

The link between turbulence in star formatting environments and protostellar jets remains controversial. To explore issues of turbulence and fossil cavities driven by young stellar outflows we present a series of numerical simulations…

Magnetic reconnection and turbulence are deeply intertwined in magnetohydrodynamic flows, yet how reconnection self-generates turbulence remains unclear. Using an ensemble of high-resolution three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Nick Williams , Alessandro De Rosis , Alex Skillen

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to provide the energy that prevents runaway cooling of gas in the cores of galaxy clusters. However, how this energy is transported and thermalized throughout the Intracluster Medium (ICM) remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

It has recently been proposed that global or local turbulence models can be used to simulate core-collapse supernova explosions in spherical symmetry (1D) more consistently than with traditional approaches for parameterised 1D models.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Bernhard Müller

Supernovae are the dominant source of chemical enrichment of galaxies, and they are an important source of energy to heat the interstellar medium and accelerate cosmic rays. Our knowledge of supernovae in the Milky Way is based mostly on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Sill Verberne , Jacco Vink

We show that turbulence in core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) which has been shown recently to ease shock revival might also lead to the formation of intermittent thick accretion disks, or accretion belts, around the newly born neutron star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Avishai Gilkis , Noam Soker

The injection of turbulence in the circum-galactic medium at redshift z = 2 is investigated using the mesh-based hydrodynamic code Enzo and a subgrid-scale (SGS) model for unresolved turbulence. Radiative cooling and heating by a uniform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Luigi Iapichino , Matteo Viel , Stefano Borgani

Pinning of superfluid vortices to magnetic flux tubes in the outer core of a neutron star supports a velocity difference of $\sim 10^5$ \cms\ between the neutron superfluid and the proton-electron fluid as the star spins down. Under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bennett Link