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We review the present theoretical and numerical understanding of magnetic field amplification in cosmic large-scale structure, on length scales of galaxy clusters and beyond. Structure formation drives compression and turbulence, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 J. Donnert , F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , J. ZuHone

In this paper we further advance the study of magnetic field amplification in the interstellar medium that was started in Balsara et al (2004, Paper I). We show that the flux growth rate is comparable to the rate of magnetic energy growth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Balsara , J. S. Kim

We explore the amplification of magnetic seed fields during the formation of the first stars and galaxies. During gravitational collapse, turbulence is created from accretion shocks, which may act to amplify weak magnetic fields in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Sharanya Sur , Tigran G. Arshakian , Ralf S. Klessen , Rainer Beck , Marco Spaans

We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in an expanding cosmic plasma. For this purpose we present a comprehensive theoretical model to consider the evolution of MHD turbulence that can be used over a wide range of physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We have performed magnetohydrodynamical simulations to study the amplification of magnetic fields in the precursors of shock waves. Strong magnetic fields are required in the precursors of the strong shocks that occur in supernova remnants.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Bruggen

We discuss the amplification of magnetic fields by the small-scale dynamo, a process that could efficiently produce strong magnetic fields in the first galaxies. In addition, we derive constraints on the primordial field strength from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Jennifer Schober , Christoph Federrath , Francesco Miniati , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

While magnetic fields are important in contemporary star formation, their role in primordial star formation is unknown. Magnetic fields of order 10^-16 G are produced by the Biermann battery due to the curved shocks and turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Christopher F. McKee , Athena Stacy , Pak Shing Li

Magnetic fields have been included in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation only recently, due to advances in numerical techniques and a better understanding of the galaxy formation physics. In this paper, we develop a new subgrid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-13 Yuankang Liu , Michael Kretschmer , Romain Teyssier

Based on the new findings on the turbulent dynamo in \citet{XL16}, we examine the magnetic field amplification in the context of supernova remnants. Due to the strong ion-neutral collisional damping in the weakly-ionized interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

The turbulent dynamo may explain the origin of cosmic magnetism. While the exponential amplification of magnetic fields has been studied for incompressible gases, little is known about dynamo action in highly-compressible, supersonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-05 Christoph Federrath , Jennifer Schober , Stefano Bovino , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

Galaxies are observed to host magnetic fields with a typical total strength of around 15microgauss. A coherent large-scale field constitutes up to a few microgauss of the total, while the rest is built from strong magnetic fluctuations over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-09 Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Frederick A. Gent

The question of whether a dynamo can be triggered by gravitational collapse is of great interest, especially for the early Universe. Here, we employ supercomoving coordinates to study the magnetic field amplification from decaying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Axel Brandenburg , Evangelia Ntormousi

We study the buildup of magnetic fields during the formation of Population III star-forming regions, by conducting cosmological simulations from realistic initial conditions and varying the Jeans resolution. To investigate this in detail,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Matthew J. Turk , Jeffrey S. Oishi , Tom Abel , Greg Bryan

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

Using a set of cosmological hydro-dynamical simulations, we constrained the properties of primordial magnetic fields by studying their impact on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. We performed a large set of simulations (8 dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Mahsa Sanati , Yves Revaz , Jennifer Schober , Kerstin E. Kunze , Pascale Jablonka

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) generated in the early Universe may leave observable imprints in the present-day large-scale structure. However, it remains unclear on which spatial scales primordial signatures can survive the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Jennifer Schober , Molly Abramson , Sayan Mandal , Salome Mtchedlidze , Tina Kahniashvili

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

Observations in polarized emission reveal the existence of large-scale coherent magnetic fields in a wide range of spiral galaxies. Radio-polarization data show that these fields are strongly inclined towards the radial direction, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Gressel , Udo Ziegler , Detlef Elstner , Günther Rüdiger

We study the generation and evolution of density perturbations and peculiar velocities due to primordial magnetic fields. We assume that a random magnetic field was present before recombination and follow the field's effect on the baryon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Eun-jin Kim , Angela Olinto , Robert Rosner

We derive analytically the vorticity generated downstream of a two-dimensional rippled hydromagnetic shock neglecting fluid viscosity and resistivity. The growth of the turbulent component of the downstream magnetic field is driven by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Fraschetti