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A three-dimensional (3D) MHD model is applied to simulate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in a barred galaxy possessing a gaseous halo extending to about 2.8 kpc above the galactic plane. As the model input we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , D. Elstner , M. Soida , M. Urbanik

Magnetic fields are known to be dynamically important in the interstellar medium of our own Galaxy, and they are ubiquitously observed in diffuse gas in the halos of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Yet, magnetic fields have typically been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 R. Pakmor , V. Springel

We perform cosmological, hydrodynamic simulations of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The computational code combines the special-purpose hardware Grape for calculating gravitational interaction, and smooth-particle hydrodynamics for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Harald Lesch

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

We perform cosmological, hydrodynamic simulations of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The computational code combines the special-purpose hardware Grape for calculating gravitational interaction, and smooth-particle hydrodynamics for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Harald Lesch

The influence of a time-varying ram pressure on spiral galaxies in clusters is explored with a new simulation method based on the N-body SPH/tree code GADGET. We have adapted the code to describe the interaction of two different gas phases,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Jachym , J. Palous , J. Koppen , F. Combes

We present three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of the self-gravitating interstellar medium (ISM) in a periodic (256 pc)$^3$ box with a mean number density of 0.5 cm$^{-3}$. At a fixed supernova rate we investigate the…

Context: In a series of papers, we study the major merger of two disk galaxies in order to establish whether or not such a merger can produce a disc galaxy. Aims: Our aim here is to describe in detail the technical aspects of our numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 S. A. Rodionov , E. Athanassoula , N. Peschken

We have carried out 1.25 pc resolution MHD simulations of the ISM, on a Cartesian grid of $0 \leq (x,y) \leq 1$ kpc size in the galactic plane and $-10 \leq z \leq 10$ kpc into the halo, thus being able to fully trace the time-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt

We describe high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of three approximately $M_*$ field galaxies starting from \LCDM initial conditions. The simulations are made intentionally simple, and include photoionization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , George Efstathiou

We present new three dimensional, hydrodynamic simulations of the ram pressure stripping of disc galaxies via interaction with an hot intracluster medium (ICM). The simulations were carried with the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Schulz , Curtis Struck

We study the magnetic field evolution of an isolated spiral galaxy, using isolated Milky Way-mass galaxy formation simulations and a novel prescription for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) supernova feedback. Our main result is that a galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Iryna Butsky , Jonathan Zrake , Ji-hoon Kim , Hung-I Yang , Tom Abel

The Universe at present is highly magnetized, with fields of the order of a few 10^-5 G and coherence lengths larger than 10 kpc in typical galaxies like the Milky Way. We propose that the magnetic field was amplified to this values already…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Jennifer Schober , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Ralf S. Klessen

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

We study the evolution of magnetic fields generated by charge segregation ahead of ionization fronts during the Epoch of Reionization, and their effects on galaxy formation. We compare this magnetic seeding process with the Biermann…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Enrico Garaldi , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Radio observations of galaxy clusters show that there are $\mu$G magnetic fields permeating the intra-cluster medium (ICM), but it is hard to accurately constrain the strength and structure of the magnetic fields without the help of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hao Xu , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Michael L. Norman , Renyue Cen , Luigina Feretti , Gabriele Giovannini

We study the effects of galaxy formation physics on the magnetization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using the IllustrisTNG simulations. We demonstrate that large-scale regions affected by the outflows from galaxies and clusters contain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andres Aramburo Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Anastasia Sokolenko

The magnetic fields observed in the Milky~Way and nearby galaxies appear to be in equipartition with the turbulent, thermal, and cosmic ray energy densities, and hence are expected to be dynamically important. However, the origin of these…

Beginning with cosmological initial conditions at z=100, we simulate the effects of magnetic fields on the formation of Population III stars and compare our results with the predictions of Paper I. We use Gadget-2 to follow the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-04 Athena Stacy , Christopher F. McKee , Aaron T. Lee , Richard I. Klein , Pak Shing 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)…