Effects of magnetic fields on radiatively overstable shock waves

Details Effects of magnetic fields on radiatively overstable shock waves Effects of magnetic fields on radiatively overstable shock waves

1997-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707352v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 text pages, LaTeX/AASTeX (aaspp4); 5 figures; accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/304628

We discuss high-resolution simulations of one-dimensional, plane-parallel shock waves with mean speeds between 150 and 240 km/s propagating into gas with Alfven velocities up to 40 km/s and outline the conditions under which these radiative shocks experience an oscillatory instability in the cooling length, shock velocity, and position of the shock front. We investigate two forms of postshock cooling: a truncated single power law and a more realistic piecewise power law. The degree of nonlinearity of the instability depends strongly on the cooling power law and the Alfven Mach number: for power-law indices \alpha < 0 typical magnetic field strengths may be insufficient either to stabilize the fundamental oscillatory mode or to prevent the oscillations from reaching nonlinear amplitudes.

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