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We show that strong magnetic fields can be generated at shock waves associated with formation of galaxies or clusters of galaxies by the Weibel instability, an instability in collisionless plasmas. The estimated strength of the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yutaka Fujita , Tsunehiko N. Kato

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 spontaneous generation of uniform magnetic condensate in $QED_3$ gives rise to ferromagnetic domain walls at the electroweak phase transition. These ferromagnetic domain walls are caracterized by vanishing effective surface energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Cea , Luigi Tedesco

The generation of magnetic fields by a battery, operating in an ion-electron plasma around a Kerr black hole, is studied in the 3+1 split of the Kerr metric. It is found that the gravitomagnetic contributions to the electron partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramon Khanna

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Extragalactic disks, halos and clusters have consistently been shown, via diffuse radio-synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation measurements, to exhibit magnetic field strengths ranging from…

The origin of our universe's cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery. In this study, we consider whether these magnetic fields could have been generated in the early universe by a population of charged, spinning primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic

The origin of large scale cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery, despite the continuous efforts devoted to that problem. We present a new model of magnetic field generation, based on local charge separation provided by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Mathieu Langer , Jean-Loup Puget , Nabila Aghanim

We report first results of first global galactic-scale CR-MHD simulations of cosmic-ray-driven dynamo. We investigate the dynamics of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM), which is dynamically coupled with the cosmic-ray (CR) gas. We assume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-05 Michał Hanasz , Dominik Wóltański , Kacper Kowalik

We present new generation mechanisms of magnetic fields in supernova remnant shocks propagating to partially ionized plasmas in the early universe. Upstream plasmas are dissipated at the collisionless shock, but hydrogen atoms are not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-08 Shuhei Kashiwamura , Yutaka Ohira

The interaction of intense linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulses with solids is known to generate azimuthal magnetic fields, while circularly polarized light has been shown to create axial fields. We demonstrate through experiments…

Both observations and modelling of magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar gas of spiral galaxies are well developed but the theory has been confronted with observations for only a handful of individual galaxies. There is now sufficient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher

Magnetic fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters are amplified from a very weak seed value to the observed $\mu{\rm G}$ strengths by the turbulent dynamo. The seed magnetic field can be of primordial or astrophysical origin. The strength and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

Cosmic superstrings are produced at the end of brane inflation. Their properties are similar to cosmic strings arising in grand unified theories. Like cosmic strings they can give rise to a primordial magnetic field, as a result of vortical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Anne-Christine Davis , Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Planetary nebulae are thought to be formed when a slow wind from the progenitor giant star is overtaken by a subsequent fast wind generated as the star enters its white dwarf stage$^{1}$. A shock forms near the boundary between the winds,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Eric G. Blackman , Adam Frank , J. Andrew Markiel , John H. Thomas , Hugh M. Van Horn

The magnetic helicity has paramount significance in nonlinear saturation of galactic dynamo. We argue that the magnetic helicity conservation is violated at the lepton stage in the evolution of early Universe. As a result, a cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. B. Semikoz , D. D. Sokoloff

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of primordial star formation suggest that the gas within the first star-forming halos is turbulent. This has strong implications on the subsequent evolution, in particular on the generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sharanya Sur , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen

The origin and the magnitude of the inter-galactic magnetic field is of primordial importance in the global picture of magnetic field evolution, as it is considered to be the missing link between galactic magnetic fields and cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yohan Dubois , Romain Teyssier

Primordial magnetic fields may account for all or part of the fields observed in galaxies. We consider the evolution of the magnetic fields created by pseudoscalar effects in the early universe. Such processes can create force-free fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 George B. Field , Sean M. Carroll

Multi-frequency radio polarimetry of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron background gives new viewpoints on the Galactic magnetic field. Rotation measure maps reveal magnetic structures on arcminute to degree scales, such as a ring in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn , F. Heitsch

In this paper we show that the Universe is already strongly magnetized at very early epochs during cosmic evolution. Our calculations are based on the efficient amplification of weak magnetic seed fields, which are unavoidably present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Jacques M. Wagstaff , Robi Banerjee , Dominik Schleicher , Guenter Sigl