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We (Li et al. 2009; Paper-I) compared the magnetic field directions inferred from polarimetry data obtained from 100-pc scale inter-cloud media (ICM) and from sub-pc scale molecular cloud cores. The highly correlated result led us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-10 Y. Zhang , Z. Guo , H. H. Wang , H-b Li

Magnetic fields are ubiquitously observed in the interstellar medium (ISM) of present-day star-forming galaxies with dynamically relevant energy densities. Using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the supernova (SN)…

Probing magnetic fields in Giant Molecular Clouds is often challenging. Fortunately, recently simulations show that analysis of velocity gradients (the Velocity Gradient Technique) can be used to map out the magnetic field morphology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Yue Hu , Ka Ho Yuen , A. Lazarian , Laura M. Fissel , P. A. Jones , M. R. Cunningham

Scanning Hall probe and local Hall magnetometry measurements have been used to investigate flux distributions in large mesoscopic superconducting disks with sizes that lie near the crossover between the bulk and mesoscopic vortex regimes.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 M. R. Connolly , M. V. Milosevic , S. J. Bending , J. R. Clem , T. Tamegai

Using numerical methods, we systematically study in the framework of ideal MHD the effect of magnetic fields on heat transfer within a turbulent gas. We measure the rates of passive scalar diffusion within magnetized fluids and make the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Cho , A. Lazarian , A. Honein , B. Knaepen , S. Kassinos , P. Moin

Quantum transport in inhomogeneous magnetic fields is investigated numerically in two-dimensional systems using the equation of motion method. In particular, the diffusion of electrons in random magnetic fields in the presence of additional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki

The Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method is widely employed to estimate the mean magnetic field strength in astrophysical plasmas. In this study, we present a numerical investigation using the DCF method in conjunction with a promising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Parth Pavaskar , Huirong Yan , Jungyeon Cho

This paper demonstrates that intermittent magnetic field fluctuations in the plasma sheet exhibit transitory, localized, and multi-scale features. We propose a multifractal based algorithm, which quantifies intermittence on the basis of the…

Observations of the effect of the magnetic field on its environment are usually achieved with techniques which rely on the interaction with the spin of the particles under study. Because of the relative weakness of this effect, extraction…

Numerical simulations of the propagation of charged particles through magnetic fields solving the equation of motion often leads to the usage of an interpolation in case of discretely defined magnetic fields, typically given on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 L. Schlegel , A. Frie , B. Eichmann , P. Reichherzer , J. Becker Tjus

Galactic outflows driven by starbursts can modify the galactic magnetic fields and drive them away from the galactic planes. Here, we quantify how these fields may magnetize the intergalactic medium. We estimate the strength and structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez , Jordan Guerra , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi , Joan T. Schmelz

Using the conventional approach of superposing plane waves, it is not possible to create a strictly isotropic turbulent magnetic field structure that obeys all physical constraints, which are (i) equal mean of all magnetic field components;…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz

We investigate the detailed processes working in the drift of magnetic fields in molecular clouds. To the frictional force, whereby the magnetic force is transmitted to neutral molecules, ions contribute more than half only at cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Takenori Nakano , Ryoichi Nishi , Toyoharu Umebayashi

To explore the potential role of gravity, turbulence and magnetic fields in high-mass star formation in molecular clouds, this study revisits the velocity dispersion--size ($\sigma$--$L$) and density--size ($\rho$--$L$) scalings and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-09 An-Xu Luo , Hong-Li Liu , Guang-Xing Li , Sirong Pan , Dong-Ting Yang

Polarimetry is extensively used as a tool to trace the interstellar magnetic field projected on the plane of sky. Moreover, it is also possible to estimate the magnetic field intensity from polarimetric maps based on the Chandrasekhar-Fermi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian , G. Kowal

Kinetic helicity is a fundamental characteristics of astrophysical turbulent flows. It is not only responsible for the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in the Sun, stars, and spiral galaxies, but it also affects turbulent diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-15 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin , Axel Brandenburg

Using the test-field method for nearly irrotational turbulence driven by spherical expansion waves it is shown that the turbulent magnetic diffusivity increases with magnetic Reynolds numbers. Its value levels off at several times the rms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-05 Axel Brandenburg , Fabio Del Sordo

Magnetic fields are believed to play an important role in the evolution of molecular clouds, from their large scale structure to dense cores, protostellar envelopes, and protoplanetary disks. How important is unclear, and whether magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tyler L. Bourke , Alyssa A. Goodman

{Magnetic fields exist on all scales in our Galaxy. There is a controversy about whether the magnetic fields in molecular clouds are preserved from the permeated magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) during cloud formation. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-14 J. L. Han , J. S. Zhang

The atomic-to-molecular (HI-to-H$_2$) transition in photodissociation regions (PDRs) has been investigated over the last several decades through analytic and numerical modeling. However, classical PDR models typically assume uniform density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Shmuel Bialy