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Thin, magnetically aligned striations of relatively moderate contrast with the background are commonly observed in both atomic and molecular clouds. They are also prominent in MHD simulations with turbulent converging shocks. The simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Che-Yu Chen , Zhi-Yun Li , Patrick K. King , Laura M. Fissel

Magnetic fields have been included in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation only recently, due to advances in numerical techniques and a better understanding of the galaxy formation physics. In this paper, we develop a new subgrid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-13 Yuankang Liu , Michael Kretschmer , Romain Teyssier

In the present work the instability of a flat horizontal thin layer of a magnetic fluid (the depth of no more than 50 \mum) under the action of a uniform magnetic field is studied experimentally. It was revealed that the development of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-28 Arthur Zakinyan , Levon Mkrtchyan , Yuri Dikansky

The question of whether a dynamo can be triggered by gravitational collapse is of great interest, especially for the early Universe. Here, we employ supercomoving coordinates to study the magnetic field amplification from decaying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Axel Brandenburg , Evangelia Ntormousi

We carry out three-dimensional MHD simulations of star formation in turbulent, magnetized clouds, including ambipolar diffusion and feedback from protostellar outflows. The calculations focus on relatively diffuse clouds threaded by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

The Zeeman effect and dust grain alignment are two major methods for probing magnetic fields (B-fields) in molecular clouds, largely motivated by the study of star formation, as the B-field may regulate gravitational contraction and channel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-16 Hua-bai Li

Interstellar gas clouds are often both highly magnetized and supersonically turbulent, with velocity dispersions set by a competition between driving and dissipation. This balance has been studied extensively in the context of gases with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-19 Yuval Birnboim , Christoph Federrath , Mark Krumholz

Radiative turbulent mixing layers are expected to form pervasively at the phase boundaries in multiphase astrophysical systems. This inherently small scale structure is dynamically crucial because it directly regulates the mass, momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Xihui Zhao , Xue-Ning Bai

Molecular clouds (MCs) are stellar nurseries, however, formation of stars within MCs depends on the ambient physical conditions. MCs, over a free-fall time are exposed to numerous dynamical phenomena, of which, the interaction with a thin,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Anathpindika , H. C. Bhatt

We examine how well the physical properties of clumps in turbulent molecular clouds can be determined by measurements of observed clump structures. We compare simulated observations of three-dimensional numerical models of isothermal,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Javier Ballesteros-Paredes , Mordecai-M. Mac Low

Fragmentation process in a cylindrical magnetized cloud is studied with the nested grid method. The nested grid scheme use 15 levels of grids with different spatial resolution overlaid subsequently, which enables us to trace the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Tomisaka

We study the influence of initial conditions on the magnetic field amplification during the collapse of a magnetised gas cloud. We focus on the dependence of the growth and saturation level of the dynamo generated field on the turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sharanya Sur , Christoph Federrath , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

The formation of circumstellar disks is investigated using three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations, in which the initial prestellar cloud has a misaligned rotation axis with respect to the magnetic field. We examine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Shingo Hirano , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Shantanu Basu , Masahiro N. Machida

Observations show that galaxies and their interstellar media are pervaded by strong magnetic fields with energies in the diffuse component being at least comparable to the thermal and even as large or larger than the turbulent energy. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Bastian Körtgen , Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Wolfram Schmidt

In this letter we report on turbulent acceleration of the dissipation of magnetic field in the postshock re- gion of a Poynting flux-dominated flow, such as the Crab pulsar wind nebula. We have performed two- dimensional resistive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Makoto Takamoto , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We report an extensive set of two-dimensional MHD simulations exploring the role and evolution of magnetic fields in the dynamics of supersonic plasma clumps. We examine the influence of both ambient field strength and orientation on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , I. L. Tregillis

We investigate the possible development of magnetohydrodynamical instabilities in the EULAG-MHD "millenium simulation" of Passos & Charbonneau (2014). This simulation sustains a large-scale magnetic cycle characterized by solar-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 N. Lawson , A. Strugarek , P. Charbonneau

We report results of a three dimensional, high resolution (up to 512^3) numerical investigation of supersonic compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We consider both forced and decaying turbulence. The model parameters are appropriate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James M. Stone , Eve C. Ostriker , Charles F. Gammie

The effect of smooth cloud boundaries on the interaction of steady planar shock waves with interstellar clouds is studied using a high-resolution local AMR technique with a second-order accurate axisymmetric Godunov hydrodynamic scheme. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher

Relativistic unmagnetized cloud-plasma interaction is analyzed by performing linear analysis and particle-in-cell simulation. This course consists of an electron-ion cloud injected into a stationary ambient plasma and has long been a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Kazem Ardaneh