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Although the influence of magnetic fields is regarded as vital in the star formation process, only a few magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations have been performed on this subject within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Florian Bürzle , Paul C. Clark , Federico Stasyszyn , Thomas Greif , Klaus Dolag , Ralf S. Klessen , Peter Nielaba

We demonstrate that primordial magnetic fields (PMF) play a decisive role in the braneworld baryogenesis scenario of [Phys. Rev. D $\textbf{110}$, 023520 (2024)], where C/CP violation arises from the coupling of visible and hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Michaël Sarrazin

We investigate hydromagnetic turbulence of primordial magnetic fields using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding universe. We present the basic, covariant MHD equations, find solutions for MHD waves in the early universe, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Axel Brandenburg , Kari Enqvist , Poul Olesen

The hadron string dynamics (HSD) model is generalized to include the creation and evolution of retarded electromagnetic fields as well as the influence of the magnetic and electric fields on the quasiparticle propagation. The time-space…

We introduce a new mechanism for generating magnetic fields in the recombination era. This Harrison-like mechanism utilizes vorticity in baryons that is sourced through the Bose-Einstein condensate of axions via gravitational interactions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Nilanjan Banik , Adam J. Christopherson

As a result of the Standard Model chiral anomalies, baryon number is violated in the early universe in the presence of a hypermagnetic field with varying helicity. We investigate whether the matter / anti-matter asymmetry of the universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-14 Kohei Kamada , Andrew J. Long

Recent high-angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed rich information about protoplanetary disks, including ubiquitous substructures and three-dimensional gas kinematics at different emission layers. One interpretation of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

In magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the magnetic field is evolved by the induction equation and coupled to the gas dynamics by the Lorentz force. We perform numerical smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (Spmhd) simulations and study the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. A. Stasyszyn , K. Dolag , A. M. Beck

We present an analytical estimate for the magnetic field strength generated by the Weibel instability in ultra-relativistic shocks in a hydrogen plasma. We find that the Weibel instability is, by itself, not capable of converting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jorrit Wiersma , A. Achterberg

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

Shock wave refraction at a sharp density interface is a classical problem in hydrodynamics. Presently, we investigate the strongly planar refraction of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shock wave at an inclined density interface. A magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Fang Chen , Vincent Wheatley , Ravi Samtaney

Observations of $\gamma$-ray from blazars suggest the presence of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium, which may require a primordial origin. Intense enough primordial magnetic fields can arise from theories of dynamical electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Martin Arteaga Tupia , Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia

The majority of solar-type stars reside in multiple systems, especially binaries. They form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. Our previous study shows that magnetic braking can tighten the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Bo Zhao , Zhi-Yun Li , Kaitlin M. Kratter

The growth rate of the non-linear ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is enhanced by magnetic fields self-generated by the Biermann battery mechanism; a scaling for this effect with perturbation height and wavelength is proposed and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 C. A. Walsh , D. S. Clark

We recently predicted the existence of random primordial magnetic fields (RPMF) in the form of randomly oriented cells with dipole-like structure with a cell size $L_0$ and an average magnetic field $B_0$. Here we investigate models for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 Rafael S. de Souza , Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Reuven Opher

The exact time-dependent solution is obtained for a magnetic field growth during a spherically symmetric accretion into a black hole (BH) with a Schwarzschild metric. Magnetic field is increasing with time, changing from the initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

It is assumed that long range coherent magnetic fields in the universe were spontaneously generated at high temperature due to vacuum polarization of non-Abelian gauge fields, and resulted in the present intergalaxy magnetic field. The zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 E. Elizalde , V. Skalozub

Collisionless shocks can be produced as a result of strong magnetic fields in a plasma flow, and therefore are common in many astrophysical systems. The Weibel instability is one candidate mechanism for the generation of sufficiently strong…

Magnetized collisionless shocks drive particle acceleration broadly in space and astrophysics. We perform the first large-scale particle-in-cell simulations with realistic laboratory parameters (density, temperature, and velocity) to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 P. Liu , D. Wu , D. W. Yuan , G. Zhao , Z. M. Sheng , X. T. He , J. Zhang

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be mostly accelerated at supernova shocks. However, the interstellar magnetic field is too weak to efficiently accelerate galactic cosmic rays up to the highest energies, i.e. $10^{15}$ eV. A stronger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Maria Victoria del Valle , Alexandre Lazarian , Reinaldo Santos-Lima