Demonstration of a magnetic Prandtl number disc instability from first principles

Understanding what determines the strength of MHD turbulence in accretion discs is a question of fundamental theoretical and observational importance. In this work we investigate whether the dependence of the turbulent accretion disc stress (α) on the magnetic Prandtl number (Pm) is sufficiently sen...

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Main Authors: Potter, W, Balbus, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017