Inelastic scattering and local heating in atomic gold wires
We present a method for including inelastic scattering in a first-principles density-functional computational scheme for molecular electronics. As an application,
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Ion Heating in Collisionless Shocks in Supernovae and the Heliosphere
Collisionless shocks play a role in many astrophysical phenomena, from coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere to supernova remnants.
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Kinetic Friction due to Ohm's Law Heating
Using both a recent calculation by Bruch of the damping of the motion of a monolayer nitrogen film oscillating harmonically
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Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation: Cooling, Heating, Star Formation
Formation of luminous matter in the Universe is a complicated process, which includes many processes and components. It is the
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On the Particle Heating and Acceleration in Black Hole Accretion Systems
The lack of our knowledge on how angular momentum is transported in accretion disks around black holes has prevented us
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On Tripolar Magnetic Reconnection and Coronal Heating
Using recent data for the photosphere-chromosphere region of the solar atmosphere the magnetic reconnection in tripolar geometry has been investigated
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Particle Heating in Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows
I review particle heating by MHD turbulence in collisionless plasmas appropriate to advection-dominated accretion flows. These considerations suggest that the
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Perturbations to Stellar Structure in 2D: Stellar Rotation and Heating in X-ray Binaries
We have developed a numerical code with which we study the effects of 2D perturbations on stellar structure. We present
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Pulsar Spin-Down Induced Phenomena: Heating; Magnetic Field Evolution; Glitches; Pulse-Period Modulations
Modeling the dynamics of the quantum fluids within a spinning-down neutron star gives a description consistent with observed pulsar magnetic
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Radiation-induced magnetotransport in high-mobility two-dimensional systems: Role of electron heating
Effects of microwave radiation on magnetoresistance are analyzed in a balance-equation scheme that covers regimes of inter- and intra-Landau level
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Stability and heating of magnetically driven jets from Keplerian accretion discs
We have performed 3-D numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jet experiments to study the instabilities associated with strongly toroidal magnetic fields and
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Supernova Blastwaves in Low-density Hot Media: a Mechanism for Spatially Distributed Heating
Most supernovae are expected to explode in low-density hot media, particularly in galactic bulges and elliptical galaxies. The remnants of
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The Chemo-Dynamical Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies: Pre-heating and AGN heating
We study the chemodynamical evolution of elliptical galaxies and their X-ray and optical properties using high-resolution cosmological simulations. Our Tree
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The Effect of Heating and Cooling on Scaling Laws of X-Ray Clusters
We present results of including heating and cooling in cosmological simulations of the $Λ$CDM cosmology and demonstrate their effects on
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The heating of the ICM by powerful radio sources
We present a model for the compression and heating of the ICM by powerful radio galaxies and quasars. Based on
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The Heating of the ICM: Energy Crisis and viable solutions
X-ray observations indicate that non-gravitational processes play a key role in the thermodynamics of the Intra Cluster Medium (ICM). The
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The Heating of the Intra Cluster Medium
X-ray observations indicate that non-gravitational processes play a key role in determining the distribution of the diffuse, X-ray emitting gas
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The Neupert effect in solar flares and implications for coronal heating
Based on simultaneous observations of solar flares in hard and soft X-rays we studied several aspects of the Neupert effect.
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The Origins of Disk Heating
By making spectral absorption-line observations of disk galaxies at intermediate inclinations, we have been able to determine the amplitude of
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The saturation of disk heating in the solar neighborhood and evidence for a merger 9 Gyrs ago
We re-examine the age-velocity dispersion relation in the solar neighborhood using improved stellar age estimates that are based on Hipparcos
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White Noise and Heating of Open Quantum Field Fermi Systems
I study the time evolution of the density matrices of quantum Fermi systems interacting with classic external Fermi fields. This
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Astrophysics of Dust in Cold Clouds
Nine lectures reviewing the astrophysics of dust in interstellar clouds. Topics include: (1) Summary of observational evidence concerning interstellar dust:
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Bright loops in the solar corona
The heating of the solar corona and the puzzle of the slender high reaching magnetic loops seen in observations from
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Damage along an ion track in diamond: a computer simulation
We present tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations of the structural modifications that result from the "thermal spike" that occurs during the
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