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We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

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Barred galaxies are known to possess magnetic fields that may affect the properties of bar substructures such as dust lanes and nuclear rings. We use two-dimensional high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Woong-Tae Kim , James M. Stone

We wish to clarify whether strong magnetic fields can be effectively generated in typically low-mass dwarf galaxies and to assess the role of dwarf galaxies in the magnetization of the Universe. We performed a search for radio emission and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Krzysztof T. Chyzy , Marek Wezgowiec , Rainer Beck , Dominik J. Bomans

Feedback from supernovae is an essential aspect of galaxy formation. In order to improve subgrid models of feedback we perform a series of numerical experiments to investigate how supernova explosions power galactic winds. We use the Flash…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Creasey , Tom Theuns , Richard G. Bower

The importance of the interstellar magnetic field is studied in relation to the evolutions of superbubbles with a three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation. A superbubble is a large supernova remnant driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kohji Tomisaka

The origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields as well as the influence of the magnetic fields on the evolution of galaxies are unknown. Though not without challenges, the dynamo theory can explain the large-scale coherent magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 F. S. Tabatabaei , T. P. K. Martinsson , J. H. Knapen , J. E. Beckman , B. Koribalski , B. G. Elmegreen

The existence of microgauss magnetic fields in galaxy clusters have been established through observations of synchrotron radiation and Faraday rotation. They are conjectured to be generated via small-scale dynamo by turbulent flow motions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Soonyoung Roh , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Seungwoo Ha , Hanbyul Jang

Dwarf galaxies are thought of as the building blocks of large galaxies such as our Milky Way. This paper presents new high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies and their intergalactic medium with the \texttt{GIZMO} code.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Pei-Cheng Tung , Ke-Jung Chen

Magnetic field amplification by a fast dynamo is seen in local box simulations of SN-driven ISM turbulence, where the self-consistent emergence of large-scale fields agrees very well with its mean-field description. We accordingly derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-25 Detlef Elstner , Oliver Gressel

Enormous progress has been made on observing stellar magnetism in stars from the main sequence through to compact objects. Recent data have thrown into sharper relief the vexed question of the origin of stellar magnetic fields, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Lilia Ferrario , Andrew Melatos , Jonathan Zrake

We present new developments on the Cosmic--Ray driven, galactic dynamo, modeled by means of direct, resistive CR--MHD simulations, performed with ZEUS and PIERNIK codes. The dynamo action, leading to the amplification of large--scale…

It has long been accepted that a possible mechanism for explaining the existence of magnetic white dwarfs is the merger of a binary white dwarf system, as there are viable mechanisms for producing sustainable magnetic fields within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Baybars Külebi , K. Yavuz Ekşi , Pablo Lorén-Aguilar , Jordi Isern , Enrique García-Berro

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The universe is magnetized on all scales probed so far. On the largest scales, galaxies and galaxy clusters host magnetic fields at the micro Gauss level coherent on scales up to ten kpc. Recent observational evidence suggests that even the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Kandaswamy Subramanian

Recent numerical studies suggest that magnetic fields play an important role in primordial star formation in the early universe. However, the detailed evolution of the magnetic field in the collapse phase still has uncertainties because of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-27 Sho Higashi , Hajime Susa , Christoph Federrath , Gen Chiaki

Large scale strong magnetic fields in galaxies are generally thought to have been generated by a mean field dynamo. In order to have generated the fields observed, the dynamo would have had to have operated for a sufficiently long period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kandus , R. Opher , S. R. M. Barros

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Recently, cosmological simulations of galaxies have successfully begun to incorporate magnetic fields and their evolution in galaxies and their haloes. However, so far they have mostly focused…

We present a new theoretical framework for using entropy to understand how outflows driven by supernovae are launched from disc galaxies: via continuous, buoyant acceleration through the circumgalactic medium (CGM). When young star clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 B. W. Keller , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , J. W. Wadsley

The amplification of primordial magnetic fields via a small-scale turbulent dynamo during structure formation might be able to explain the observed magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The magnetisation of more tenuous large-scale structures…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , C. Gheller , P. Wang

Gas blown away from galactic disks by supernova (SN) feedback plays a key role in galaxy evolution. We investigate outflows utilizing the solar neighborhood model of our high-resolution, local galactic disk simulation suite, TIGRESS. In our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker