• The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fluid instability that causes an accretion disk orbiting a massive central object to become turbulent. It...
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    eddies within the disk. In 1991, with the rediscovery of the magnetorotational instability (MRI), S. A. Balbus, and J. F. Hawley established that a weakly...
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  • protoplanetary disk is the magnetorotational instability. The impacts of turbulence generated by this instability could limit streaming instabilities to the dead zone...
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    Balbus shared the Shaw Prize in Astronomy for their work on the magnetorotational instability (MRI). Considered one of the highest honors in astronomy, the...
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    radiation from outer space that creates a dead zone in which the magnetorotational instability (MRI) no longer operates. It is believed that these disks consist...
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    quasi-interchange instability) Magnetorotational instability (in accretion disks) Magnetothermal instability (Laser-plasmas), Modulational instability Non-Abelian...
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    For their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism...
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  • results on magnetic buoyancy, the Taylor instability, Goldreich-Schubert instability, and magnetorotational instability. In 1992 he discovered the 'upside-down...
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    Coronal Mass Ejections". Ebrahimi has also done research on the magnetorotational instability and demonstrated in global simulations its importance for the...
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    ionization of the disk by the pulsar's radiation, which allows the magnetorotational instability to trigger turbulence and thus destroy the dead zone. Thus,...
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    former colleague John F. Hawley, describing what is now known as magnetorotational instability (MRI). Most recently, Balbus has been working on a theory of...
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    stabilized in FRC experiments by increasing the ion gyroradii. The magnetorotational instability. This mode causes a rotating elliptical distortion of the plasma...
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  • Steven Balbus and John F. Hawley publish their insights on magnetorotational instability. Asteroid 6859 Datemasamune is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa...
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  • gravitational lensing technique MRI – (astrophysics term) magnetorotational instability, a local instability in the accretion disks which only requires weak magnetic...
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  • Balbus makes his first discovery leading to elucidation of magnetorotational instability. October 13 – Earth-grazing meteoroid of 13 October 1990: A...
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  • and dust in the disk. This material is first ejected due to magnetorotational instability (MRI). Material is flung out by magneto-centrifugal processes...
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    fluid and plasma instabilities led to the discovery of the magnetorotational instability in 1959, and the electrothermal instability in 1962. In 1964...
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  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (journal), a scientific journal Magnetorotational instability, in astrophysics Mean Recurrence Interval, of floods and other...
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    experiment for the combined investigation of the magnetorotational instability and the Tayler instability. The HZDR comprises eight institutes: Institute...
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  • Magnetoresistance Magnetorheological finishing Magnetorheological fluid Magnetorotational instability Magnetosome Magnetosphere Magnetosphere chronology Magnetosphere...
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  • when studying the linear stability of an accretion disc to the magnetorotational instability. Gubbins & Herrero-Bervera (2007), p. 299. Lesur, Geoffroy R...
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  • Craig; Meier, David L.; Lichtenstadt, Itamar (2003). "The Magnetorotational Instability in Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions". The Astrophysical Journal...
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  • Asplund, M.; Casey, A. R. (8 July 2021). "R-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae". Nature. 595 (7866): 223–226. arXiv:2107.03010. Bibcode:2021Natur...
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    Abdikamalov, Ernazar; Reisswig, Christian; Schnetter, Erik (2014). "Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae in Three Dimensions". The Astrophysical Journal...
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