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Thermal conductivity with bells and whistlers: suppression of the magnetothermal instability in galaxy clusters
Lorenzo Maria Perrone, Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer
In the hot intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters, plasma microinstabilities may play an important role in the transport of heat and momentum on the large scales. In this pap…
Does the magneto-thermal instability survive whistler-suppression of thermal conductivity in galaxy clusters?
Lorenzo Maria Perrone, Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer
The hot and dilute intracluster medium (ICM) plays a central role in many key processes that shape galaxy clusters.Nevertheless, the nature of plasma turbulence and particle transp…
Hydromagnetic waves in an expanding universe -- cosmological MHD code tests using analytic solutions
Thomas Berlok
We describe how analytic solutions for linear hydromagnetic waves can be used for testing cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) codes. We start from the comoving MHD equations and…
Suppressed heat conductivity in the intracluster medium: implications for the magneto-thermal instability
Thomas Berlok, Eliot Quataert, Martin E. Pessah +1
In the outskirts of the intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters, the temperature decreases with radius. Due to the weakly collisional nature of the plasma, these regions are s…
Plasma Instabilities in the Context of Current Helium Sedimentation Models: Dynamical Implications for the ICM in Galaxy Clusters
Thomas Berlok, Martin E. Pessah
Understanding whether Helium can sediment to the core of galaxy clusters is important for a number of problems in cosmology and astrophysics. All current models addressing this que…