Magnetic RDIs in a Piece of an HII Region


This is an example of the RDIs in magnetized gas. Specifically, the movie shows an xyz projection, with the initial magnetic field in the vertical direction (z), the acceleration of the grains in the x-z (width-height) direction, and the mutually perpendicular direction is depth (y). The colors show gas velocity, relative to mean, measured on slices on the xyz surfaces in the periodic box, while the black points show the dust in the same slice. This particular box is motivated by parameters typical in HII regions, at roughly ~0.1 pc from a bright O star, with the box size being something like ~50 au on a side. Here the dust is charged and feels both magnetic/Lorentz and drag/Coulomb forces, and it is drifting mildly super-sonically in a medium with plasma beta of ~10. For more details, see Seligman et al. (in prep.). 

© Philip Hopkins 2015