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We present high resolution simulations with RAMSES of supersonic colliding stellar winds. The collision results in a double shock structure which is subject to different instabilities. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) introduces some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-18 Astrid Lamberts , Sebastien Fromang , Guillaume Dubus , Geoffroy Lesur

The conditions of thermochemical and radiative non-equilibrium attained in nitrogen shocked flows were quantified using a vibronic state-specific model. This model, being described in a companion paper, was implemented in Euler…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Élio Pereira , Jorge Loureiro , Mário Lino da Silva

We present a study of the X-ray emission from numerical simulations of hot bubbles in planetary nebulae (PNe). High-resolution, two-dimensional, radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of hot bubbles in PNe, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 J. A. Toalá , S. J. Arthur

For pulsars born in supernovae, the expansion of the shocked pulsar wind nebula is initially in the freely expanding ejecta of the supernova. While the nebula is in the inner flat part of the ejecta density profile, the swept-up,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 John M. Blondin , Roger A. Chevalier

Magnetized rotating neutron stars, or pulsars, are a possible end product of massive star evolution. Their relativistic wind successively interacts with the supernova ejecta of their defunct progenitor, then with the circumstellar medium of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 D. M. -A. Meyer , D. F. Torres

Astrophysical bow shocks are a common result of the interaction between two supersonic plasma flows, such as winds or jets from stars or active galaxies, or streams due to the relative motion between a star and the interstellar medium. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Jorge A. Tarango-Yong , William J. Henney

We describe the results of 3D simulations of the interaction of hydrodynamic shocks with Bonnor-Ebert spheres performed with an Adaptive Mesh Refinement code. The calculations are isothermal and the clouds are embedded in a medium in which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 S. A. E. G. Falle , B. Vaidya , T. W. Hartquist

The main goal of our present work is to provide, for the first time, a simple computational tool that can be used to compute the brightness, the spectral index, the polarization, the time variability and the spectrum of the non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-25 D. Volpi , L. Del Zanna , E. Amato , N. Bucciantini

Neutron stars lose the bulk of their rotational energy in the form of a pulsar wind: an ultra-relativistic outflow of predominantly electrons and positrons. This pulsar wind significantly impacts the environment and possible binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-05 J. D. Gelfand , R. P. Breton , C. -Y. Ng , J. W. T. Hessels , B. Stappers , M. S. E. Roberts , A. Possenti

Bow shocks and related density enhancements produced by the winds of massive stars moving through the interstellar medium provide important information regarding the motions of the stars, the properties of their stellar winds, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Manisha Shrestha , Hilding R. Neilson , Jennifer L. Hoffman , Richard Ignace

A significant fraction of massive stars move at speed through the interstellar medium of galaxies. After their death as core collapse supernovae, a possible final evolutionary state is that of a fast rotating magnetised neutron star,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 D. M. -A. Meyer , Z. Meliani

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) constitute an ideal astrophysical environment to test our current understanding of relativistic plasma processes. It is well known that magnetic fields play a crucial role in their dynamics and emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 N. Bucciantini , R. Bandiera , B. Olmi , L. Del Zanna

The hard X-ray synchrotron emission from pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) probes energetic particles, closely related to the pulsar injection power at the present time. INTEGRAL has disclosed the yet poorly known population of hard X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Fabio Mattana , Diego Götz , Régis Terrier , Matthieu Renaud , Maurizio Falanga

We follow up on our systematic study of axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary nebula. The aim of this work is to generate the atomic analogues of the $\mathrm H_2$ near-infrared models of Paper I with the ZEUS code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 Igor Novikov , Michael Smith

Of the known pulsar wind nebulae, 8 are good candidates for being in the early stage of evolution where the wind nebula is interacting with the freely expanding supernova ejecta. Several of these have been identified with historical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roger A. Chevalier

We know that it is the front of the bow shock where the solar wind kinetic energy flux is transformed into the other kinds the most intensively. In our previous studies, we obtained important relationships that enable calculating the key…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 P. A. Sedykh

Pulsars are one of the possible final stages in the evolution of massive stars. If a supernova explosion is anisotropic, it can give the pulsar a powerful kick, propelling it to supersonic speeds. The resulting pulsar wind nebula is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-28 D. M. A. Meyer , D. F. Torres , Z. Meliani

This two-part review summarizes interstellar turbulence and its implications. The first part begins with diagnostics and energy sources. Turbulence theory is considered in detail, including the basic fluid equations, solenoidal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bruce G. Elmegreen , John Scalo

The goal of this research is to investigate how well various turbulence models can describe physical properties of the upper convective boundary layer of the Sun. An accurate modeling of the turbulence motions is necessary for understanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

We perform 3 dimensional moving-mesh hydrodynamical simulations of bubble nebulae around ultraluminous X-ray sources, using state-of-the-art software AREPO. We use a Monte-Carlo method to inject outflows with uniform mass outflow rate and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Jiahui Huang , Ken Ohsuga , Hua Feng , Hui Li