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Turbulent reconnection acceleration
Siyao Xu, Alex Lazarian
The ubiquitous turbulence in astrophysical plasmas is important for both magnetic reconnection and reconnection acceleration. We study the particle acceleration during fast 3D turb…
On the injection scale of the turbulence in the partially ionized very local interstellar medium
Siyao Xu, Hui Li
The cascade of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is subject to ion-neutral collisional damping and neutral viscous damping in the partially ionized interstellar medium. By exami…
Faraday Rotation Measure Variations of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
Yuan-Pei Yang, Siyao Xu, Bing Zhang
Recently, some fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters were reported to exhibit complex, diverse variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), which implies that they are surrounded by a…
Multi-Phase Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy NGC 3627
Mingrui Liu, Yue Hu, A. Lazarian +2
Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation and evolution of a galaxy, but it is challenging to measure them by observation. Here we study the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3627's…
Turbulent Magnetic Field Amplification by the Interaction of Shock Wave and Inhomogeneous Medium
Yue Hu, Siyao Xu, James M. Stone +1
Magnetic fields on the order of 100 G observed in young supernova remnants cannot be amplified by shock compression alone. To investigate the amplification caused by turbulent d…
Role of magnetic fields in fueling Seyfert nuclei
Yue Hu, Alex Lazarian, Rainer Beck +1
Molecular gas is believed to be the fuel for star formation and nuclear activity in Seyfert galaxies. To explore the role of magnetic fields in funneling molecular gas into the nuc…
Turbulence in Milky Way Star-Forming Regions Traced by Young Stars and Gas
Trung Ha, Yuan Li, Marina Kounkel +3
The interstellar medium (ISM) is turbulent on all scales and in all phases. In this paper, we study turbulence with different tracers in four nearby star-forming regions: Orion, Op…
The Velocity Statistics of Turbulent Clouds in the Presence of Gravity, Magnetic fields, Radiation, and Outflow Feedback
Yue Hu, Christoph Federrath, Siyao Xu +1
The interaction of turbulence, magnetic fields, self-gravity, and stellar feedback within molecular clouds is crucial for understanding star formation. We study the effects of self…
Cosmic ray streaming in the turbulent interstellar medium
Siyao Xu, Alex Lazarian
We study the streaming instability of GeVGeV cosmic rays (CRs) and its damping in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). We find that the damping of streaming instability…
Damping of Alfvén waves in MHD turbulence and implications for cosmic ray streaming instability and galactic winds
Alex Lazarian, Siyao Xu
Alfvénic component of MHD turbulence damps Alfvénic waves. The consequences of this effect are important for many processes, from cosmic ray (CR) propagation to launching outflows…