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The interaction between a protostellar magnetosphere and a surrounding dynamo-active accretion disc is investigated using an axisymmetric mean-field model. In all models investigated, the dynamo-generated magnetic field in the disc arranges…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brigitta von Rekowski , Axel Brandenburg

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 field is playing an important role at all stages of star evolution from star formation to the endpoints. The main effects are briefly reviewed. We also show that O-type stars have large convective envelopes, where convective dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 André Maeder , Georges Meynet , Cyril Georgy , Sylvia Ekström

Neutron stars are the most compact horizonless objects in the Universe, exhibiting the strongest known magnetic fields. They are potential sources of coincident gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation across the entire spectrum.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Fabrizio Venturi Piñas , Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Milton Ruiz

We investigate the chiral magnetic instability in the crust of a neutron star as a potential mechanism for amplifying magnetic fields. This instability may become active when small deviations from chemical equilibrium are sustained over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-13 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

Isolated neutron stars show a diversity in timing and spectral properties, which has historically led to a classification in different sub-classes. The magnetic field plays a key role in many aspects of the neutron star phenomenology: it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-28 Daniele Viganò , Jose A. Pons , Juan A. Miralles , Nanda Rea

Magnetic fields are considered as a vital ingredient of contemporary star formation, and may have been important during the formation of the first stars in the presence of an efficient amplification mechanism. Initial seed fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Muhammad A. Latif , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

A framework is introduced for coupling the evolution of galactic magnetic fields sustained by the mean-field dynamo with the formation and evolution of galaxies in cold dark matter cosmology. Estimates of the steady-state strength of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Carlton Baugh

This article briefly reviews our current understanding of the evolution of magnetic fields in neutron stars, which basically defines the evolutionary pathways between different observational classes of neutron stars. The emphasis here is on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Sushan Konar

Estimations of magnetic fields of neutron stars, observed as radio and X-ray pulsars, are discussed. It is shown, that theoretical and observational values for different types of radiopulsars are in good correspondence. Radiopulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-18 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Spectropolarimetric observations show that many low-mass stars possess large-scale poloidal magnetic fields with considerable dipole component, which in some cases exhibit temporal dynamics - cycles or reversals. Although it is widely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Anna Guseva , Ludovic Petitdemange , Charly Pinçon

Star-forming dwarf galaxies can be seen as the local proxies of the high-redshift building blocks of more massive galaxies according to the current paradigm of the hierarchical galaxy formation. They are low-mass objects, and therefore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Siejkowski , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Soida , D. J. Bomans , M. Hanasz

Chemically peculiar Ap and Bp stars host strong large-scale magnetic fields in the range of $200$~G up to $30$~kG, which are often considered to be the origin of fossil magnetic fields. We assess the evolution of such fossil fields during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Juan Pablo Hidalgo , Daniele Galli

The evolution of neutron stars in close binary systems with a low-mass companion is considered assuming the magnetic field to be confined within the solid crust. We adopt the standard scenario of the evolution in a close binary system in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Urpin , U. Geppert , D. Konenkov

We review the current state of knowledge of magnetic fields inside stars, concentrating on recent developments concerning magnetic fields in stably stratified (zones of) stars, leaving out convective dynamo theories and observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-11 J. Braithwaite , H. C. Spruit

Using a numerical simulation, we study the effects of ambipolar diffusion and ohmic diffusion on the magnetic field evolution in the interior of an isolated neutron star. We are interested in the behavior of the magnetic field on a long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jaime Hoyos , Andreas Reisenegger , Juan A. Valdivia

In this paper we study the effects of rotation on the frequencies of the quasi-normal modes of a proto-neutron star (PNS) born in a gravitational collapse during the first minute of life. Our analysis starts a few tenths of seconds after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri , J. A. Pons , A. Stavridis

We investigate the geometry of the magnetic field of rotation-powered pulsars. A new method for calculating an angle ($\beta$) between the spin and magnetic dipole axes of a neutron star (NS) in the ejector stage is considered within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Vitaliy Kim , Adel Umirbayeva , Yerlan Aimuratov

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of twisted, force-free magnetospheres of non-rotating neutron stars, which are of interest in the modelling of magnetar properties and evolution. In our models the magnetic field smoothly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Taner Akgün , Juan Antonio Miralles , José A. Pons , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

We calculate the steady-state properties of neutrino-driven winds from strongly magnetized, rotating proto-neutron stars (`proto-magnetars') under the assumption that the outflow geometry is set by the force-free magnetic field of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey D. Vlasov , Brian D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson