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Magnetic fields are one of most concealed components of the universe. They are observed as part of the intergalactic medium and on galaxy cluster scales, however their origin and evolution is unclear. In this work we use the IllustrisTNG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-04 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Dante J. Paz , Volker Springel

Magnetic buoyancy (MBI) and Parker instabilities are strong, generic instabilities expected to occur in most astrophysical systems with sufficiently strong magnetic fields. In galactic and accretion discs, large-scale magnetic fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-11 Yasin Qazi , Anvar. Shukurov , Frederick. A. Gent , Devika. Tharakkal , Abhijit. B. Bendre

The interstellar medium in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is known to be strongly magnetised, but its large-scale morphology and impact on the gas dynamics are not well understood. We explore the impact and properties of…

Magnetic fields in the Milky Way are present on a wide variety of sizes and strengths, influencing many processes in the Galactic ecosystem such as star formation, gas dynamics, jets, and evolution of supernova remnants or pulsar wind…

Observations of non-thermal emission from several supernova remnants suggest that magnetic fields close to the blastwave are much stronger than would be naively expected from simple shock compression of the field permeating the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Luke O'C. Drury , Turlough P. Downes

The diffusion of astrophysical magnetic fields in conducting fluids in the presence of turbulence depends on whether magnetic fields can change their topology or reconnect in highly conducting media. Recent progress in understanding fast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-16 A. Lazarian , R. Santos-Lima , E. Gouveia Dal Pino

The evolution of large-scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies is investigated numerically. The gasdynamical simulations in a disk perturbed by spiral or bar potential are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Chiba

A general view is presented on the problem of propagation of ultra high-energy cosmic rays through the intergalactic and galactic magnetic fields. Especial emphasis is given to the possibility of correlating the present events with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Gustavo Medina Tanco

Diffusive shock acceleration is the theory of particle acceleration through multiple shock crossings. In order for this process to proceed at a rate that can be reconciled with observations of high-energy electrons in the vicinity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 K. M. Schure , A. R. Bell , L. O'C Drury , A. M. Bykov

We improve on the model of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) from Jansson \& Farrar (2012), which was constrained using all-sky rotation measures of extragalactic sources and polarized and unpolarized synchrotron emission data from WMAP. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-14 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar

We perform two-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a mildly relativistic shock propagating through an inhomogeneous medium. We show that the postshock region becomes turbulent owing to preshock density inhomogeneity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Yosuke Mizuno , Martin Pohl , Jacek Niemiec , Bing Zhang , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

Relativistic shocks are usually thought to occur in violent astrophysical explosions. These collisionless shocks are mediated by a plasma kinetic streaming instability, often loosely referred to as the Weibel instability, which generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Mikhail V. Medvedev

One way in which the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey has made an important contribution to the understanding of the Galactic interstellar medium is through its polarization surveys. Investigation of these data has enabled a big step in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-20 Marijke Haverkorn

Cool weakly ionized gaseous rotating disk form the basis for many models in astrophysics objects. Instabilities against perturbations in such disks play an important role in the theory of the formation of stars and planets. Traditionally,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-19 Edward Liverts , Michael Mond , Vadim Urpin

The central regions of galaxies harbor some of the most extreme physical phenomena, including dense stellar clusters, non-circular motions of molecular clouds and strong and pervasive magnetic field structures. In particular, radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Cornelia C. Lang , Maria R. Drout

We show that the Bell instability, which is widely considered potentially important for cosmic-ray acceleration, is the low-frequency limit of a gyroresonant interaction between the protons of the interstellar medium and shear-Alfv\'en…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Martin S. Weidl , Dan Winske , Christoph Niemann

The problem of the origin of cosmic rays in the shocks produced by supernova explosions at energies below the so called 'knee' (at ~3*10$^6$ GeV) in the energy spectrum is addressed, with special attention to the propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. A. Lagutin , A. W. Wolfendale

Linear analysis of the stability of diffuse clouds in the cold neutral medium with uniform magnetic field is performed. We consider that gas in equilibrium state is heated by cosmic rays, X-rays and electronic photoeffect on the surface of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander E. Dudorov , Constantine E. Stepanov , Sergey O. Fomin , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

Both observations and modelling of magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar gas of spiral galaxies are well developed but the theory has been confronted with observations for only a handful of individual galaxies. There is now sufficient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher

We investigate the possibility that electromagnetic fluctuations are amplified in expanding universe by parametric resonance, during the oscillatory regime of a scalar field to which they are coupled. We consider scalar electrodynamics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 F. Finelli