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Slow dynamical changes in magnetic-field strength and invariance of the particles' magnetic moments generate ubiquitous pressure anisotropies in weakly collisional, magnetized astrophysical plasmas. This renders them unstable to fast,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Rincon , A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

Observations of the cores of nearby galaxy clusters show H$\alpha$ and molecular emission line filaments. We argue that these are the result of {\em local} thermal instability in a {\em globally} stable galaxy cluster core. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Prateek Sharma , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert

We study the relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly and dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely Chiral MagnetoHydroDynamics (CMHD). We formulate CMHD as a low-energy effective theory based on a generalized derivative expansion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Koichi Hattori , Yuji Hirono , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

The possibility that the type of discontinuous flow changes as the conditions gradually (continuously) change is investigated in connection with the problems arising when the results of numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 L. S. Ledentsov , B. V. Somov

Both global dynamics and turbulence in magnetized weakly collisional cosmic plasmas are described by general magnetofluid equations that contain pressure anisotropies and heat fluxes that must be calculated from microscopic plasma kinetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , F. Rincon , M. S. Rosin

Employing linearized Vlasov-Maxwell system, the Weibel instability embedded in an ambient magnetic field is discussed for a semi-relativistic bi-Maxwellian distribution hoping such a scenario occurs in some relativistic environments e.g.,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 M. F. Bashir , S. Zaheer , Z. Iqbal , G. Murtaza

The fermion self-energy is calculated for a cold QED plasma with chiral chemical potential in a magnetic field. It is found that a momentum shift parameter dynamically generated in such a plasma leads to a modification of the chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 D. O. Rybalka

Cold ($T\sim 10^{4} \ \mathrm{K}$) gas is very commonly found in both galactic and cluster halos. There is no clear consensus on its origin. Such gas could be uplifted from the central galaxy by galactic or AGN winds. Alternatively, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-10 Suoqing Ji , S. Peng Oh , Michael McCourt

Magnetic helicity, and more broadly magnetic field line topology, impose constraints on the plasma dynamics. Helically interlocked magnetic rings are in a non-trivial topological state. It is harder to bring them into a topologically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Simon Candelaresi , Fabio Del Sordo

We study the influence of the chiral phase transition on the chiral magnetic effect. The chiral electric current density along the magnetic field, the electric charge difference between on each side of the reaction plane, and the azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu , Yue-liang Wu

The onset and evolution of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas is determined by several mechanisms, including instabilities, dynamo effects and ultra-high energy particle flows through gas, plasma and interstellar-media.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Flacco , J. Vieira , A. Lifschitz , F. Sylla , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , L. O. Silva , V. Malka

We have shown that there exists low-frequency growing modes driven by a global temperature gradient in electron and ion plasmas, by linear perturbation analysis within the frame work of plasma Kinetic theory. The driving force of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Hattori , Keiichi Umetsu

Plasma streaming instabilities play an important role in magnetic field amplification and particle acceleration in relativistic shocks and their environments. However, in the far shock precursor region where accelerated particles constitute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 J. Ryan Peterson , Siegfried Glenzer , Frederico Fiuza

Electron-scale surface waves are shown to be unstable in the transverse plane of a shear flow in an initially unmagnetized plasma, unlike in the (magneto)hydrodynamics case. It is found that these unstable modes have a higher growth rate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 E. P. Alves , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

In space plasmas kinetic instabilities are driven by the beaming (drifting) components and/or the temperature anisotropy of charged particles. The heat-flux instabilities are known in the literature as electromagnetic modes destabilized by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , P. H. Yoon , S. Poedts

We investigate the streaming and thermal instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with homogeneous cold cosmic rays drifting perpendicular to the background magnetic field in the multi-fluid approach. One-dimensional perturbations along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-27 Anatoly K. Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

The non-modal self-heating mechanism driven by the velocity shear in kinematically complex magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma flows is considered. The study is based on the full set of MHD equations including dissipative terms. The equations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zaza Osmanov , Andria Rogava , Stefaan Poedts

Cosmic ray (CR) currents through magnetised plasma drive strong instabilities producing amplification of the magnetic field. This amplification helps explain the CR energy spectrum as well as observations of supernova remnants and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-31 James H. Matthews , Anthony R. Bell , Katherine M. Blundell , Anabella T. Araudo

We show in experiments that a long, underdense, relativistic proton bunch propagating in plasma undergoes the oblique instability, that we observe as filamentation. We determine a threshold value for the ratio between the bunch transverse…

In a classical ideal plasma, a magnetic field is known to reduce the heat conductivity perpendicular to the field whereas it does not alter the one along the field. Here we show that, in strongly correlated plasmas that are observed at high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Torben Ott , Michael Bonitz , Zoltan Donko