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Magnetic fields permeate the Universe on all scales and play a key role during star formation. We study the evolution of magnetic fields around a massive metal-free (Population III) star at $z \sim 15$ during the growth of its HII region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Daegene Koh , John H. Wise

Radio continuum observations allow to reveal the magnetic field structure in the disk and halo of nearby spiral galaxies, their magnetic field strength and vertical scale heights. The spiral galaxies studied so far show a similar magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-08 Marita Krause

Recent cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have suggested that the first stars in the universe often form as binary or multiple systems. However, previous studies typically overlooked the potential influence of magnetic fields during this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

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

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

Arguably the main challenge of galactic magnetism studies is to explain how the interstellar medium of galaxies reaches energetic equipartition despite the extremely weak cosmic primordial magnetic fields that are originally predicted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

Magnetic fields on the order of 100 $\mu$G observed in young supernova remnants cannot be amplified by shock compression alone. To investigate the amplification caused by turbulent dynamo, we perform three-dimensional MHD simulations of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , James M. Stone , Alex Lazarian

The nature and origin of turbulence and magnetic fields in the intergalactic space are important problems that are yet to be understood. We propose a scenario in which turbulent flow motions are induced via the cascade of the vorticity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Jungyeon Cho , Santabrata Das

We have investigated via two-dimensional relativistic MHD simulations the long-term evolution of turbulence created by a relativistic shock propagating through an inhomogeneous medium. In the postshock region, magnetic field is strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Yosuke Mizuno , Martin Pohl , Jacek Niemiec , Bing Zhang , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

Turbulence dynamo deals with amplification of a seed magnetic field in a turbulent medium and has been studied mostly for uniform or spatially homogeneous seed magnetic fields. However, some astrophysical processes (e.g. jets from active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jungyeon Cho , Hyunju Yoo

Our understanding of the process through which magnetic fields reached their observed strengths in present-day galaxies remains incomplete. One of the advocated solutions is a turbulent dynamo mechanism that rapidly amplifies weak magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Debora Sijacki , Mark L. A. Richardson , Harley Katz

We examine the effects of self-gravity and magnetic fields on supersonic turbulence in isothermal molecular clouds with high resolution simulations and adaptive mesh refinement. These simulations use large root grids (512^3) to capture…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 David Collins , Alexei G. Kritsuk , Paolo Padoan , Hui Li , Hao Xu , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

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

Blazar observations point toward the possible presence of magnetic fields over intergalactic scales of the order of up to $\sim1\,$Mpc, with strengths of at least $\sim10^{-16}\,$G. Understanding the origin of these large-scale magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Arthur Kosowsky , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

In the present-day Universe, magnetic fields pervade galaxy clusters, with strengths of a few microGauss obtained from Faraday Rotation. Evidence for cluster magnetic fields is also provided by Megaparsec-scale radio emission, namely radio…

Magnetic fields pervade the entire Universe and affect the formation and evolution of astrophysical systems from cosmological to planetary scales. The generation and dynamical amplification of extragalactic magnetic fields through cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 F. Rincon , F. Califano , A. A. Schekochihin , F. Valentini

Magnetic field amplification by a fast dynamo is seen in local box simulations of SN-driven ISM turbulence, where the self-consistent emergence of large-scale fields agrees very well with its mean-field description. We accordingly derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-25 Detlef Elstner , Oliver Gressel

We use three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic fields on the energy transport and structure of radiation pressure dominated main sequence massive star envelopes at the region of the iron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Yan-Fei Jiang , Matteo Cantiello , Lars Bildsten , Eliot Quataert , Omer Blaes

We study the generation and maintenance of large-scale magnetic fields in barred galaxies. We take a velocity field (with strong noncircular components) from a published gas dynamical simulation of Athanassoula (1992), and use this as input…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Moss , A. Shukurov , D. Sokoloff , R. Beck , A. Fletcher

We examine MHD simulations of the propagation of a strong shock wave through the interstellar two-phase medium composed of small-scale cloudlets and diffuse warm neutral medium in two-dimensional geometry. The pre-shock two-phase medium is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka