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Weakly Turbulent MHD Waves in Compressible Low-Beta Plasmas
Benjamin D. G. Chandran
In this Letter, weak turbulence theory is used to investigate interactions among Alfven waves and fast and slow magnetosonic waves in collisionless low-beta plasmas. The wave kinet…
Parker/buoyancy instabilities with anisotropic thermal conduction, cosmic rays, and arbitrary magnetic field strength
Timothy J. Dennis, Benjamin D. G. Chandran
We report the results of a local stability analysis for a magnetized, gravitationally stratified plasma containing cosmic rays. We account for cosmic-ray diffusion and thermal cond…
Numerical simulations of buoyancy instabilities in galaxy cluster plasmas with cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction
Yann Rasera, Benjamin Chandran
In clusters of galaxies, the specific entropy of intracluster plasma increases outwards. Nevertheless, a number of recent studies have shown that the intracluster medium is subject…
Strong Anisotropic MHD Turbulence with Cross Helicity
Benjamin D. G. Chandran
This paper proposes a new phenomenology for strong incompressible MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity. This phenomenology is then developed into a quantitative Fokker-Planck…
Convection and AGN Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies
Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Yann Rasera
A number of studies have shown that the convective stability criterion for the intracluster medium (ICM) is very different from the Schwarzchild criterion due to the effects of ani…
Weak compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar corona
Benjamin D. G. Chandran
This Letter presents a calculation of the power spectra of weakly turbulent Alfven waves and fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") in low-beta plasmas. It is shown that three-wave…