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We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by a collisionless relativistic $e^+e^-$ shock which is initially unmagnetized. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations show that downstream of such a Weibel-mediated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chang , A. Spitkovsky , J. Arons

We introduce an updated, time-dependent treatment to the split-tail ("croissant-like") heliosphere model with data-driven solar wind conditions at 1 au, to study the evolution of the heliosphere with solar-cycle variations in plasma speed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Chika Onubogu , M. Opher , E. Powell , S. Du , J. M. Sokół , J. D. Richardson , B. Van Der Holst

Absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) display a highly non-uniform distribution of lower ionization state species accompanied by more widespread higher ionization state material. This suggests that the CGM is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco , G. Mark Voit

The theory of diffusive acceleration of energetic particles at shock fronts assumes charged particles undergo spatial diffusion in a uniform magnetic field. If, however, the magnetic field is not uniform, but has a stochastic or braided…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , Y. A. Gallant

We presents results from Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing molecular cloud cores, and dynamo amplification of the magnetic field in the presence of Mach 10 magnetised turbulence. Our star formation simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath , Matthew R. Bate

We present first results from three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of M-type dwarf stars with CO5BOLD. The local models include the top of the convection zone, the photosphere, and the chromosphere. The results are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-10 S. Wedemeyer , H. -G. Ludwig , O. Steiner

We have calculated the evolution of cosmic ray (CR) modified astrophysical shocks for a wide range of shock Mach numbers and shock speeds through numerical simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in 1D quasi- parallel plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Kang , T. W. Jones

Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to decay rapidly within a flow crossing time irrespective of the degree of magnetization. However, this general consensus of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Chang-Goo Kim , Shantanu Basu

We present results of the first global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks fed by Roche lobe overflow, including vertical stratification, in order to investigate the roles of spiral shocks, magnetorotational instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-08 Patryk Pjanka , James M. Stone

Observations of magnetic field strengths imply that molecular cloud fragments are individually close to being in a magnetically critical state, even though both magnetic field and column density measurements range over two orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shantanu Basu

We use numerical simulations to study the effect of nonlinear MHD waves in a stratified, self-gravitating molecular cloud that is bounded by a hot and tenuous external medium. In a previous paper, we had shown the details of a standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takahiro Kudoh , Shantanu Basu

We use large hybrid simulations to study ion acceleration and generation of magnetic turbulence due to the streaming of particles that are self-consistently accelerated at non-relativistic shocks. When acceleration is efficient, we find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We perform five 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) core-collapse supernova simulations for non-rotating progenitors between 9.5 $M_\odot$ and 24 $M_\odot$. Four of the five models produce explosions while one fails. The exploding models are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Bailey Sykes , Bernhard Müller

Most numerical investigations on the role of magnetic fields in turbulent molecular clouds (MCs) are based on ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). However, MCs are weakly ionized, so that the time scale required for the magnetic field to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pak Shing Li , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher

We study the long-term quasi-steady evolution of the force-free magnetosphere of a magnetar coupled to its internal magnetic field. We find that magnetospheric currents can be maintained on long timescales of the order of thousands of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Taner Akgün , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Juan Antonio Miralles , José A. Pons

The free decay of MHD turbulence at large Reynolds numbers is studied numerically using a shell model. We study the statistical properties based on representative sample of realisations (128 realisations for each type of initial conditions)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-23 Peter Frick , Rodion Stepanov

We present numerical simulations of driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with weak/moderate imposed magnetic fields. The main goal is to clarify dynamics of magnetic field growth. We also investigate the effects of the imposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Cho , E. Vishniac , A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian , D. Ryu

The evolutionarity conditions for the MHD shock waves are considered within the framework of the 8-moment approximation for collisionless plasma with heat fluxes. In the general case, evolutionarity diagrams are obtained depending on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 V . D. Kuznetsov , A. I. Osin

Outflows can be loaded and accelerated to high speeds along rapidly rotating, open magnetic field lines by centrifugal forces. Whether such magnetocentrifugally driven winds are stable is a longstanding theoretical problem. As a step…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jeffrey M. Anderson , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Roger D. Blandford

We investigated the effect of magnetic fields on the collision process between dense molecular cores. We performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of collisions between two self-gravitating cores using the Enzo adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Shinichi. W. Kinoshita , Fumitaka Nakamura