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We study the dynamics of toroidal magnetic flux tubes, symmetric about the rotation axis, inside non-magnetic thick accretion disks around black holes. We present model equations which include effects of gravity, centrifugal force, pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Sydney D'Silva

Large scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk is a key ingredient in the jet formation model. The most attractive scenario for the origin of such a large scale field is the advection of the field by the gas in the accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

Interstellar magnetic fields in elliptical galaxies are assumed to have their origin in stellar fields that accompany normal mass loss from an evolving population of old stars. The seed fields are amplified by interstellar turbulence driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William G. Mathews , Fabrizio Brighenti

An experimental investigation on the periodic and chaotic oscillations in a reflex plasma source in presence of magnetic field is presented. The experiment is conducted in a reflex plasma source, consisting of two cathodes and a ring anode.…

The problem of the late accretion phase of the evolution of an axisymmetric, isothermal magnetic disk surrounding a forming star has been formulated in a companion paper. The "central sink approximation" is used to circumvent the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow is a long standing puzzle. Resolving it is especially important in astrophysics when the flow angular momentum profile is Keplerian which forms an accretion disk having negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Kanak Saha

We derive analytically the vorticity generated downstream of a two-dimensional rippled hydromagnetic shock neglecting fluid viscosity and resistivity. The growth of the turbulent component of the downstream magnetic field is driven by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Fraschetti

In the standard cosmological model, magnetic fields and vorticity are generated during the radiation era via second-order density perturbations. In order to clarify the complicated physics of this second-order magnetogenesis, we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Roy Maartens , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Keitaro Takahashi

After the initial stage of fast expanding of the hot Universe comes epoch of temperature fall and subsequent formation of dense clouds of hydrogen. Due to process of accretion some of this clouds became compact objects. Initially accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Zlatan Dimitrov Dimitrov

In thin ($\Delta<$ few $\lambda_i$) collisionless current sheets in a space plasma like the magnetospheric tail or magnetopause current layer, magnetic fields can grow {from thermal fluctuation level by the action of the non-magnetic Weibel…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Treumann , R. Nakamura , W. Baumjohann

In a companion paper, we reported the self-consistent formation of quasar accretion disks with inflow rates $\sim 10\,{\rm M_{\odot}\,yr^{-1}}$ down to <300 Schwarzschild radii from cosmological…

In this paper, we present the stationary axisymmetric configuration of a resistive magnetised thick accretion disc in the vicinity of external gravity and intrinsic dipolar magnetic field of a slowly rotating black hole. The plasma is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mahboobeh Shaghaghian

Magnetic null points can develop near the ergosphere boundary of a rotating black hole by the combined effects of strong gravitational field and the frame-dragging mechanism. The induced electric component does not vanish an efficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-06 V. Karas , O. Kopacek , D. Kunneriath , J. Hamersky

We show that a large-scale, weak magnetic field threading a turbulent accretion disk tends to be advected inward, contrary to previous suggestions that it will be stopped by outward diffusion. The efficient inward transport is a consequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Rothstein , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Recently a new transport theory of cosmic rays in magnetized space plasmas extending the quasilinear approximation to the particle orbit has been developed for the case of an axisymmetric incompressible magnetic turbulence. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sabrina Casanova , Reinhard Schlickeiser

We investigate numerically magnetic field generation by thermal convection with square periodicity cells in a rotating horizontal layer of electrically-conducting fluid with stress-free electrically perfectly conducting boundaries for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-12 V. Zheligovsky

The flow of an electrically conducting fluid driven by a traveling magnetic field imposed at the endcaps of a cylindrical annulus is numerically studied. At sufficiently large magnetic Reynolds number, the system undergoes a transition from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-27 Sandeep R. Kanuganti , Stephan Fauve , Christophe Gissinger

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

The non-collisional interaction between conducting obstacles and magnetized plasma winds can be found in different scenarios, from the interaction occurring between regions inside galaxy clusters to the interaction between the solar wind…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Norberto Romanelli , Daniel Gomez , Cesar Bertucci , Magda Delva

Combined action of helical motions of plasma (the $\alpha$ effect) and non-uniform (differential) rotation is a key dynamo mechanism of solar and galactic large-scale magnetic fields. Dynamics of magnetic helicity of small-scale fields is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii