Published October 10, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

COMPRESSIBLE STREAMING INSTABILITIES IN ROTATING THERMAL VISCOUS OBJECTS

  • 1. Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123995 Moscow (Russian Federation)

Description

We study electromagnetic streaming instabilities in thermal viscous regions of rotating astrophysical objects, such as protostellar and protoplanetary magnetized accretion disks, molecular clouds, their cores, and elephant trunks. The obtained results can also be applied to any regions of interstellar medium, where different equilibrium velocities between charged species can arise. We consider a weakly and highly ionized three-component plasma consisting of neutrals and magnetized electrons and ions. The vertical perturbations along the background magnetic field are investigated. The effect of perturbation of collisional frequencies due to density perturbations of species is taken into account. The growth rates of perturbations are found in a wide region of wave number spectrum for media, where the thermal pressure is larger than the magnetic pressure. It is shown that in cases of strong collisional coupling of neutrals with ions the contribution of the viscosity is negligible.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/80

Additional details

Identifiers

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
704
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 80-88
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOAB

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41099742
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ACCRETION DISKS; ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; DISTURBANCES; EQUILIBRIUM; INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PERTURBATION THEORY; PLASMA WAVES; PROTOPLANETS; SPECTRA; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY
Descriptors DEC
PHYSICS