Latent thermal instability

arXiv:2606.26227 · astro-ph.GA, physics.plasm-ph · Submitted 2026-08-18 · Read on arXiv

Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Archie F. A. Bott

astro-ph.GA, physics.plasm-ph

Submitted: 2026-08-18

Updated: 2026-08-20

Terminology

• Core — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Weak Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Modeling transport in weakly collisional plasmas using thermodynamic forcing
• Detection of Filamentary X-Ray Structure in the Core of the Shapley Supercluster
• Magnetohydrodynamic Precipitation
• Collisionless conduction in a high-beta plasma: a collision operator for whistler turbulence

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