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School of Astronomy (SoA) Weekly Seminar
Magnetothermal
condensation modes including the effects of charged
particles and cosmic-ray diffusion
Mohsen
Shadmehri
(Department of Mathematical Physics,
National University Ireland, Dublin,
Ireland)
Abstract:
We study magnetothermal instability in the
ionized plasmas including the effects of Ohmic,
ambipolar and Hall diffusion. Magnetic field in
the single fluid approximation does not allow
transverse thermal condensations, however,
non-ideal effects highly diminish the
stabilizing role of the magnetic field in
thermally unstable plasmas. Therefore, enhanced
growth rate of thermal condensation modes in the
presence of the diffusion mechanisms speed up
the rate of structure formation. Then, we extend
our analysis to include charged dust particles.
Our linear analysis shows that the growth rate
of the unstable modes in the presence of dust
particles strongly depends on the ratio of the
cooling rate and the modified dust-cyclotron
frequency. If the cooling rate is less than the
modified dust-cyclotron frequency, then the
growth rate of the condensation modes does not
modify due to the existence of the charged dust
particles. But, when the cooling rate is greater
than (or comparable to) the modified
dust-cyclotron frequency, the growth rate of
unstable modes increases because of the dust
particles. In order to analysis possible
effects of cosmic-rays (CRs) on the thermal
instability, CRs and the thermal plasma are
treated as two different interacting fluids, in
which CRs can diffuse along the magnetic field
lines. We show that the growth rate of the
magnetothermal condensation mode is reduced
because of the existence of CRs, and this
stabilizing effect depends on the diffusion
coefficient and the ratio of CR pressure to gas
pressure. Thus, a slower rate of structure
formation via thermal instability is predicted
when CRs
are considered.
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Wednesday / 22-July-2009
/ 31-Tir-1388/ 2:00 PM
IPM Larak Building, School of Astronomy
Address:
Larak Garden, opposite Araj, Artesh Highway,Tehran,
Iran
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