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Magnetic fields are a dynamically important agent for regulating structure formation in the interstellar medium. The study of the relative orientation between the local magnetic field and gas (column-) density gradient has become a powerful…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Bastian Körtgen , Juan D. Soler

The local axisymmetric stability of hydrodynamical and magnetized, nearly-Keplerian gaseous accretion disks around non-rotating black holes is examined in the vicinity of the classical marginally-stable orbit (at radii ~ R_ms). An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Kristen Menou

The radiation force on dust grains may be dynamically important in driving turbulence and outflows in rapidly star-forming galaxies. Recent studies focus on the highly optically-thick limit relevant to the densest ultra-luminous galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Benjamin D. Wibking , Todd A. Thompson , Mark R. Krumholz

The influence of strong, large-scale magnetic fields on the structure and temperature distribution in white dwarf atmospheres is investigated. Magnetic fields may provide an additional component of pressure support, thus possibly inflating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ch. Fendt , D. Dravins

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Magnetic fields likely play a key role in the dynamics and evolution of protoplanetary discs. They have the potential to efficiently transport angular momentum by MHD turbulence or via the magnetocentrifugal acceleration of outflows from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mark Wardle

We examine the dependence between hydrogen total mass $M_{HI}$ and rotation speed $V_{rot}$, optical size $D_{25}$ or disc radial scale $R_0$ for two samples of late-type galaxies: a) isolated galaxy (AMIGA sample), and b) the edge-on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Analoty V. Zasov , Natalia A. Zaitseva

The observed scale heights of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) layers exceed their thermal scale heights by a factor of a few in the Milky Way and other nearby edge-on disk galaxies. Here, we test a dynamical equilibrium model of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Erin Boettcher , Ellen G. Zweibel , J. S. Gallagher , Robert A. Benjamin

When the ion mean free path much exceeds the Larmor radius in a plasma, the viscous stress tensor is altered dramatically, and depends only upon quantities measured along the field lines. This regime corresponds to typical interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven A. Balbus

We study stationary free boundary configurations of an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic fluid possessing nested flux surfaces. In 2D simply connected domains, we prove that if the magnetic field and velocity field are never…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Peter Constantin , Theodore D. Drivas , Daniel Ginsberg

Magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized solar chromosphere is studied in 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations including radiative cooling and ambipolar diffusion. A Harris current sheet with and without a guide field is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Lei Ni , Bernhard Kliem , Jun Lin , Ning Wu

We perform idealised numerical simulations of magnetic buoyancy instabilities in a model of the solar tachocline. We introduce a simplified model of magnetic flux pumping in an upper layer (the convection zone), and study the effects of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Adrian J. Barker , Lara J. Silvers , Michael R. E. Proctor , Nigel O. Weiss

We studied the magnetic field structures and dynamics of magnetized multiphase gas on parsec scales around supermassive black holes by using global 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. We considered the effect of radiative cooling and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuki Kudoh , Keiichi Wada , Colin Norman

We investigate the dynamics of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies by performing 3D MHD simulations of galactic discs subject to a spiral potential. Recent hydrodynamic simulations have demonstrated the formation of inter-arm spurs as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. L. Dobbs , D. J. Price

Recent hydrodynamic (HD) simulations have shown that galactic disks evolve to reach well-defined statistical equilibrium states. The star formation rate (SFR) self-regulates until energy injection by star formation feedback balances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Helioseismology has revealed the internal density and rotation profiles of the Sun. Yet, knowledge of its magnetic fields and meridional circulation is confined much closer to the surface, and latitudinal entropy gradients are below…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 Lee Gunderson , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Magnetic flux is continuously being removed and replenished on the solar surface. To understand the removal process we carried out 3D radiative MHD simulations of the evolution of patches of photospheric magnetic field with equal amounts of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert Cameron , Alexander Voegler , Manfred Schuessler

In a previous paper, we calculated numerical hydrodynamic models of the interstellar medium in the Galaxy, which suggested that hot gas (T $\ge$ 3 $\times$ 10$^5$ K) has a filling factor near 50\% in the midplane (Rosen \& Bregman 1995, ApJ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Rosen , Joel N. Bregman , Daniel D. Kelson

We study the stability of a compressible differentially rotating flows in the presence of the magnetic field, and we show that the compressibility profoundly alters the previous results for a magnetized incompressible flow. The necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bonanno , V. Urpin

The strength of the total magnetic field in our Milky Way from radio Zeeman and synchrotron measurements is about 6 muG near the Sun and several mG in dense clouds, pulsar wind nebulae, and filaments near the Galactic Center. Diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck