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The Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). I. Survey Description, Spectra, and Radial Velocities

The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 160:2 (2020) 82

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Matthias Steinmetz, Gal Matijevič, Harry Enke, Tomaž Zwitter, Guillaume Guiglion, Paul J McMillan, Georges Kordopatis, Marica Valentini, Cristina Chiappini, Luca Casagrande, Jennifer Wojno, Borja Anguiano, Olivier Bienaymé, Albert Bijaoui, James Binney, Donna Burton, Paul Cass, Patrick de Laverny, Kristin Fiegert, Kenneth Freeman, Jon P Fulbright, Brad K Gibson, Gerard Gilmore, Eva K Grebel, Amina Helmi, Andrea Kunder, Ulisse Munari, Julio F Navarro, Quentin Parker, Gregory R Ruchti, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Warren Reid, George M Seabroke, Alessandro Siviero, Arnaud Siebert, Milorad Stupar, Fred Watson, Mary EK Williams, Rosemary FG Wyse, Friedrich Anders, Teresa Antoja, Danijela Birko, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Diego Bossini, Rafael A García, Ismael Carrillo, William J Chaplin, Yvonne Elsworth, Benoit Famaey, Ortwin Gerhard, Paula Jofre, Andreas Just, Savita Mathur, Andrea Miglio, Ivan Minchev, Giacomo Monari, Benoit Mosser, Andreas Ritter, Thaise S Rodrigues, Ralf-Dieter Scholz, Sanjib Sharma, Kseniia Sysoliatina
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Multi-scale dynamics of magnetic flux tubes and inverse magnetic energy transfer

Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press (CUP) 86:4 (2020) 535860401

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Muni Zhou, Nuno F Loureiro, Dmitri A Uzdensky

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We report on an analytical and numerical study of the dynamics of a three-dimensional array of identical magnetic flux tubes in the reduced-magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma. We propose that the long-time evolution of this system is dictated by flux-tube mergers, and that such mergers are dynamically constrained by the conservation of the pertinent (ideal) invariants,viz.the magnetic potential and axial fluxes of each tube. We also propose that in the direction perpendicular to the merging plane, flux tubes evolve in a critically balanced fashion. These notions allow us to construct an analytical model for how quantities such as the magnetic energy and the energy-containing scale evolve as functions of time. Of particular importance is the conclusion that, like its two-dimensional counterpart, this system exhibits an inverse transfer of magnetic energy that terminates only at the system scale. We perform direct numerical simulations that confirm these predictions and reveal other interesting aspects of the evolution of the system. We find, for example, that the early time evolution is characterized by a sharp decay of the initial magnetic energy, which we attribute to the ubiquitous formation of current sheets. We also show that a quantitatively similar inverse transfer of magnetic energy is observed when the initial condition is a random, small-scale magnetic seed field.
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Time-resolved fast turbulent dynamo in a laser plasma

(2020)

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AFA Bott, P Tzeferacos, L Chen, CAJ Palmer, A Rigby, A Bell, R Bingham, A Birkel, C Graziani, DH Froula, J Katz, M Koenig, MW Kunz, CK Li, J Meinecke, F Miniati, R Petrasso, H-S Park, BA Remington, B Reville, JS Ross, D Ryu, D Ryutov, F Séguin, TG White, AA Schekochihin, DQ Lamb, G Gregori
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The shearing sheet and swing amplification revisited

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 496:1 (2020) 767-783
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Formation and Evolution of Compact-object Binaries in AGN Disks

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL American Astronomical Society 898:1 (2020) ARTN 25

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Hiromichi Tagawa, Zoltan Haiman, Bence Kocsis
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