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Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

We investigate the effects of rotation on the evolution of the Parker instability in an exponentially-stratified and uniformly-rotating magnetized gas disk by carrying out three-dimensional numerical simulations with an isothermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

A linear stability analysis of a multi-component and magnetized Galactic disk model is presented. The disk model uses the observed stratifications for the gas density and gravitational acceleration at the solar neighborhood and, in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Kim , Jose Franco , S. S. Hong , Alfredo Santillan , Marco A. Martos

To examine how non-uniform nature of the Galactic gravity might affect length and time scales of the Parker instability, we took three models of gravity, uniform, linear and realistic ones. To make comparisons of the three gravity models on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jongsoo Kim , S. S. Hong

We examine the evolution of the Parker instability in galactic disks using 3D numerical simulations. We consider a local Cartesian box section of a galactic disk, where gas, magnetic fields and cosmic rays are all initially in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov , Paul J. Bushby , Andrew Fletcher

We present 2D, ideal-MHD numerical simulations of the Parker instability in a multi-component warm disk model. The calculations were done using two numerical codes with different algorithms, TVD and ZEUS-3D. The outcome of the numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alfredo Santillan , Jongsoo Kim , Jose Franco , Marco Martos , S. S. Hong , Dongsu Ryu

We investigate the nonlinear effects of uniform rotation on the Parker instability in an exponentially-stratified disk through high-resolution simulations. During the linear stage, the speed of gas motion is subsonic and the evolution with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

The Parker instability, a Rayleigh-Taylor like instability of thermal gas supported against gravity by magnetic fields and cosmic rays, is thought to be dynamically important for galaxy evolution, possibly promoting molecular cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Evan Heintz , Chad Bustard , Ellen Zweibel

A linear stability analysis has been done to a magnetized disk under a linear gravity. We have reduced the linearized perturbation equations to a second-order differential equation which resembles the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jongsoo Kim , Seung Soo Hong , Dongsu Ryu

We follow numerically the nonlinear evolution of the Parker instability in the presence of phase transitions from a warm to a cold HI interstellar medium in two spatial dimensions. The nonlinear evolution of the system favors modes that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Matthew W. Kunz , Duncan A. Christie

Parker instability leads to the formation of tangential discontinuities in a magnetic field and subsequent magnetic reconnection due to a numerical and/or an explicit resistivity. In this paper we investigate the role of the uniform,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Grzegorz Kowal , Michal Hanasz , Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur

This study investigates Parker instability in an interstellar medium (ISM) near the Galactic plane using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Parker instability arises from the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-06 Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko , Chih-Yueh Wang

We model the Parker instability in vertically stratified isothermal gas using non-ideal MHD three-dimensional simulations. Rotation, especially differential, more strongly and diversely affects the nonlinear state than the linear stage…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-08 Devika Tharakkal , Anvar Shukurov , Frederick A. Gent , Graeme R. Sarson , Andrew Snodin

We study the final equilibrium states of the Parker instability arising from an initially unstable cylindrical equilibrium configuration of gas in the presence of a radial gravitational field and a longitudinal magnetic field. The aim of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-30 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , A. Santillan

A linear stability analysis has been performed onto a self-gravitating magnetized gas disk bounded by external pressure. The resulting dispersion relation is fully explained by three kinds of instability: a Parker-type instability driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Min Lee , Seung Soo Hong

To be a formation mechanism of such large-scale structures as giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and HI superclouds, the classical Parker instability driven by external gravity has to overcome three major obstacles: The convective motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sang Min Lee , S. S. Hong

We present the results of linear analysis and two-dimensional local magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the Parker instability, including the effects of cosmic rays (CRs), in magnetized gas disks (galactic disks). As an unperturbed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takuhito Kuwabara , Kenji Nakamura , C. M. Ko

We present a detailed study of the growth of the Parker instability in a differentially rotating disk embedded in an azimuthal equilibrium magnetic field, such as the interstellar gas or an accretion disk. Basic properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Foglizzo , M. Tagger

Within a framework of 2D MHD simulations, we explore the dynamical regimes initi ated by a supernova explosion in a magnetized stratified ISM. We concentrate on the formation of large scale magnetic structures and outflows connected with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Steinacker , Yu. A. Shchekinov
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