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Magnetic fields correlated on kiloparsec scales are seen in spiral galaxies. Their origin could be due to amplification of a small seed field by a turbulent galactic dynamo. We review the current status of the galactic dynamo, especially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kandaswamy Subramanian

A new scenario for creation of galactic magnetic fields is proposed which is operative at the cosmological epoch of the galaxy formation, and which relies on unconventional properties of dark matter. Namely, it requires existence of feeble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 Zurab Berezhiani , A. D. Dolgov , I. I. Tkachev

Natural dynamos such as planets and stars generate global scale magnetic field despite the inferred presence of small scale turbulence. Such systems are known as large scale dynamos and are typically driven by convection and influenced by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-24 Ming Yan , Michael A. Calkins

Magnetic fields can be generated in cosmic string wakes due to the Biermann mechanism in the presence of neutrino inhomogeneities. As the cosmic string moves through the plasma the small magnetic field is amplified by the turbulence in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Dilip Kumar , Soumen Nayak , Soma Sanyal

Sufficiently large seeds for generating the observed (inter)galactic magnetic fields emerge naturally in string cosmology from the amplification of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations due to a dynamical dilaton background. The success of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 M. GasperinI , M. Giovannini , G. Veneziano

We present new generation mechanisms of magnetic fields in supernova remnant shocks propagating to partially ionized plasmas in the early universe. Upstream plasmas are dissipated at the collisionless shock, but hydrogen atoms are not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-08 Shuhei Kashiwamura , Yutaka Ohira

We present a complementary study to a new model for generating magnetic fields of cosmological interest. The driving mechanism is the photoionisation process by photons provided by the first luminous sources. Investigating the transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Mathieu Langer , Nabila Aghanim , Jean-Loup Puget

We show that the relativistic two-stream instability can naturally generate strong magnetic fields with 1e-5 - 1e-1 of the equipartition energy density, in the collisionless shocks of Gamma-Ray-Burst (GRB) sources. The generated fields are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Abraham Loeb

The generation of magnetic fields by a battery, operating in an ion-electron plasma around a Kerr black hole, is studied in the 3+1 split of the Kerr metric. It is found that the gravitomagnetic contributions to the electron partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramon Khanna

In the framework of relativistic ideal hydrodynamics, we study the production mechanism for vorticity and magnetic field in relativistic ideal fluids. It is demonstrated that in the uncharged fluids the thermal vorticity will always satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-27 Jian-Hua Gao , Bin Qi , Shou-Yu Wang

Magnetic buoyancy is believed to drive the transport of magnetic flux tubes from the convection zone to the surface of the Sun. The magnetic fields form twisted loop-like structures in the solar atmosphere. In this paper we use helical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg

We describe the generation of the electric current flowing along the external magnetic field in the system of massive charged fermions, possessing anomalous magnetic moments and electroweakly interacting with background matter. This current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-07 Maxim Dvornikov

Following Prendergast we study the relativistically expanding electromagnetic fields generated by an axisymmetric explosion of magnetic energy in a small volume. The magnetic field expands uniformly either within a cone or in all directions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. N. Gourgouliatos , D. Lynden-Bell

We investigate the build-up of the galactic dynamo and subsequently the origin of a magnetic driven outflow. We use a setup of an isolated disc galaxy with a realistic circum-galactic medium (CGM). We find good agreement of the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Benjamin P. Moster , Andreas Burkert , Almudena Prieto

We consider a gas composed of a single family of standard model leptons which are approximately massless and trapped inside a charged rotating shell. Due to the magnetic vortical effect, the leptons gain momentum in the direction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-15 Evgeny Shaverin

Interstellar magnetic fields in elliptical galaxies are assumed to have their origin in stellar fields that accompany normal mass loss from an evolving population of old stars. The seed fields are amplified by interstellar turbulence driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William G. Mathews , Fabrizio Brighenti

We consider the process of magnetogenesis in the context of nonsingular bounce cosmology. We show that large primordial magnetic fields can be generated during contraction without encountering strong coupling and backreaction issues. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Peng Qian , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Zong-Kuan Guo

We study the evolution of magnetic fields in cosmic string wakes in a plasma with a low resistivity. The initial magnetic field in the wake is modelled on the magnetic fields that are generated by the motion of particles around cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Soumen Nayak , Sovan Sau , Soma Sanyal

We show that recent 3He experiments at Manchester demonstrate the creation of excitation momentum (momentogenesis) by quantized vortices, a process analogous to baryogenesis within cosmic strings. Since superfluid 3He is the most complex…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. D. C. Bevan , A. J. Manninen , J. B. Cook , J. R. Hook , H. E. Hall , T. Vachaspati , G. E. Volovik

We have tested the ability of driven turbulence to generate magnetic field structure from a weak uniform field using three dimensional numerical simulations of incompressible turbulence. We used a pseudo-spectral code with a numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac