The Hall instability of thin weakly-ionized stratified Keplerian disks

Details The Hall instability of thin weakly-ionized stratified Keplerian disks The Hall instability of thin weakly-ionized stratified Keplerian disks

2007-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701088v1

Astrophys.J.665:1371-1380,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/519827

The stratification-driven Hall instability in a weakly ionized polytropic plasma is investigated in the local approximation within an equilibrium Keplerian disk of a small aspect ratio. The leading order of the asymptotic expansions in the aspect ratio is applied to both equilibrium as well as the perturbation problems. The equilibrium disk with an embedded purely toroidal magnetic field is found to be stable to radial, and unstable to vertical short-wave perturbations. The marginal stability surface is found in the space of the local Hall and inverse plasma beta parameters, as well as the free parameter of the model which is related to the total current through the disk. To estimate the minimal values of the equilibrium magnetic field that leads to instability, the latter is constructed as a sum of a current free magnetic field and the simplest approximation for magnetic field created by a distributed electric current.

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