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Aims. We investigate the cosmological evolution of large- and small-scale magnetic fields in galaxies in the light of present models of formation and evolution of galaxies. Methods. We use the dynamo theory to derive the timescales of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Dmitry Sokoloff

We reconstruct the 3D structure of magnetic fields, which were seeded by density perturbations during the radiation dominated epoch of the Universe and later on were evolved by structure formation. To achieve this goal, we rely on three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Sebastian Dorn , Jens Jasche , Franco Vazza , Daniela Paoletti , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten A. Enßlin

Magnetic fields in galaxies are believed to be the result of dynamo amplification of initially weak seed fields, reaching equipartition strength inside the interstellar medium. The small-scale dynamo appears to be a viable mechanism to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

Radio continuum observations allow to reveal the magnetic field structure in the disk and halo of nearby spiral galaxies, their magnetic field strength and vertical scale heights. The spiral galaxies studied so far show a similar magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-08 Marita Krause

We consider the possibility of generation of the seeds of primordial magnetic field on inflation and show that the effect of the back reaction of this field can be very important. Assuming that back reaction does not spoil inflation we find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Vittoria Demozzi , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Hector Rubinstein

Today, the generation of magnetic fields in solar-type stars and its relation to activity and rotation can coherently be explained, although it is certainly not understood in its entirety. Rotation facilitates the generation of magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Reiners , A. Scholz , J. Eislöffel , G. Hallinan , E. Berger , M. Browning , J. Irwin , M. Küker , S. Matt

The nature of magnetic fields in the voids of the large-scale structure of the Universe has been a multifaceted open puzzle for decades. On one hand, their origin is not clear with most of the magnetogenesis models using physics beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Deepen Garg , Ruth Durrer , Jennifer Schober

Weak magnetic fields must have existed in the early Universe, as they were sourced by the cross product of electron density and temperature gradients through the Biermann-battery mechanism. In this paper we calculate the magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haimoud

Turbulence dynamo deals with amplification of a seed magnetic field in a turbulent medium and has been studied mostly for uniform or spatially homogeneous seed magnetic fields. However, some astrophysical processes (e.g. jets from active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jungyeon Cho , Hyunju Yoo

Gravitational wave production induces a strong constraint on the amplitude of a primordial magnetic field. It has been shown that the nucleosynthesis bound for a stochastic gravitational wave background implies that causally generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Elisa Fenu

The origin of extragalactic magnetic fields is still poorly understood. Based on a dedicated suite of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations with the ENZO code we have performed a survey of different models that may have caused…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , C. Gheller , S. Hackstein , D. Wittor , P. M. Hinz

Earlier Bamba et al [JCAP (2012)] have obtained cosmological magnetic fields in teleparallel torsion theories of gravity that are not compatible with galactic dynamos. This result agrees with previous ones obtained by the author which shows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Luiz Carlos Garcia de Andrade

We show that the relatively strong magnetic fields ($\ge 1 \mu$G) in high redshift objects can be explained by the combined action of an evolving protogalactic fluctuation and electrodynamic processes providing the magnetic seed fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Lesch , Masashi Chiba

We propose that the overlapping shock fronts from young supernova remnants produce a locally unsteady, but globally steady large scale spiral shock front in spiral galaxies, where star formation and therefore massive star explosions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Cristina F. Galea

Magnetic fields in galaxies are produced via the amplification of seed magnetic fields of unknown nature. The seed fields, which might exist in their initial form in the intergalactic medium, were never detected. We report a lower bound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-21 Andrii Neronov , Ievgen Vovk

A self-consistent statistical approach to the problem of planetary and stellar magnetism is suggested. The mechanism of magnetic field generation in the astronomical objects, where the existence of fields is associated with the axial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. N. Arteha

The possible existence of a primordial magnetic field in the universe has been previously investigated in many articles. Studies involving the influence of a magnetic field in the nucleosyntesis era, studies considering the effects in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. C. N. de Araujo , R. Opher

In this review, I will summarise what we know about magnetic fields in stars and what the origin of these magnetic fields may be. I will address the issue of whether the magnetic flux is conserved from pre-main sequence to the compact star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Lilia Ferrario

We propose a novel dust battery mechanism for generating seed magnetic fields in the early universe, in which charged dust grains are radiatively accelerated, inducing strong electric currents that subsequently generate magnetic fields. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-29 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire

Cosmological and astrophysical observations indicate the presence of magnetic field over all scales. In order to explain these magnetic fields, it is assumed that there exists a seed magnetic field that gets amplified by dynamos. These seed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-06 Arun Kumar Pandey , Sampurn Anand