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We conduct a series of magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) disturbed by exploding stars. Each star deposits a randomly oriented, dipolar magnetic field into ISM. The simulations are performed in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 K. Kowalik , M. Hanasz

Magnetic fields play a vital role in numerous astrophysical processes such as star formation and the interstellar medium. In particular, their role in the formation and evolution of galaxies is not well understood. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Huai-Hsuan Chiu , Ke-Jung Chen

Theory and simulations suggest that magnetic fields from radio jets and lobes powered by their central super massive black holes can be an important source of magnetic fields in the galaxy clusters. This is paper II in a series of studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman

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

The hot intracluster plasma in clusters of galaxies is weakly magnetized. Mergers between clusters produce gas compression and motions which can increase the magnetic field strength. In this work, we perform high-resolution non-radiative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Bryan Brzycki , John ZuHone

We present a model for the seeding and evolution of magnetic fields in protogalaxies. Supernova (SN) explosions during the assembly of a protogalaxy provide magnetic seed fields, which are subsequently amplified by compression, shear flows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Alexander M. Beck , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Philipp P. Kronberg

A fully three-dimensional computation of induction processes in a disk is performed to investigate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in gas-rich barred and spiral galaxies in the presence of field diffusion. As input parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. von Linden , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , H. Lesch , G. Skupniewicz

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

In star forming disk galaxies, matter circulation between stars and the interstellar gas, and, in particular the energy input by random and clustered supernova explosions, determine the dynamical and chemical evolution of the ISM, and hence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields is still a mystery and several scenarios have been proposed so far: among them, primordial phase transitions, structure formation shocks and galactic outflows. In this work we investigate how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serena Bertone , Corina Vogt , Torsten Ensslin

We present simulations of the compact galaxy group Stephan's Quintet (SQ) including magnetic fields, performed with the N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code \textsc{Gadget}. The simulations include radiative cooling, star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Annette Geng , Alexander M. Beck , Klaus Dolag , Florian Bürzle , Marcus C. Beck , Hanna Kotarba , Peter Nielaba

An analytical model predicting the growth rates, the absolute growth times and the saturation values of the magnetic field strength within galactic haloes is presented. The analytical results are compared to cosmological MHD simulations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander M. Beck , Harald Lesch , Klaus Dolag , Hanna Kotarba , Annette Geng , Federico A. Stasyszyn

We study fast nuclear winds driven by Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) feedback in merging galaxies using high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations. We use Stars and MUltiphase Gas in GaLaxiEs (SMUGGLE) to explicitly model the multiphase…

We develop an analytical model to follow the cosmological evolution of magnetic fields in disk galaxies. Our assumption is that fields are amplified from a small seed field via magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. We further assume that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stanislav Shabala , James M. G. Mead , Paul Alexander

Magnetic fields pervade astrophysical systems and strongly influence their dynamics. Because magnetic diffusion is usually much faster than system evolution, ancient fields cannot explain the present magnetization of planets, stars, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Albert Elias-López

We investigate the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters starting from constant primordial fields using highly resolved ($\approx \rm 4 ~kpc$) cosmological MHD simulations. The magnetic fields in our sample exhibit amplification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Gianfranco Brunetti

We carried out a parameter study of interacting disk galaxies with impact parameters ranging from central collisions to weakly interacting scenarios. The orientations of the disks were also varied. In particular, we investigated how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-18 Simon Selg , Wolfram Schmidt

With ENZO simulations run on the J\"ulich supercomputers, we have investigated the evolution of magnetic fields in the largest cosmic structures (namely galaxy clusters and filaments connecting them) with unprecedented dynamical range.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Denis Wittor , Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen

Magnetic fields in the intra-cluster medium of galaxy clusters have been studied in the past years through different methods. In the next years the up-coming generation of radio telescopes is going to provide new data that have the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Bonafede , K. Dolag , F. Stasyszyn , G. Murante , S. Borgani

Absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) display a highly non-uniform distribution of lower ionization state species accompanied by more widespread higher ionization state material. This suggests that the CGM is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco , G. Mark Voit