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Understanding magnetic-field generation and amplification in turbulent plasma is essential to account for observations of magnetic fields in the universe. A theoretical framework attributing the origin and sustainment of these fields to the…

High-mass Stars are cosmic engines known to dominate the energetics in the Milky Way and other galaxies. However, their formation is still not well understood. Massive, cold, dense clouds, often appearing as Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Thushara Pillai , Jens Kauffmann , Jonathan C. Tan , Paul F. Goldsmith , Sean J. Carey , Karl M. Menten

Efficient acceleration of cosmic rays (via the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration) requires turbulent, amplified magnetic fields in the shock's upstream region. We present results of multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Thomas Stroman , Martin Pohl , Jacek Niemiec

Irregular galaxies are usually smaller and less massive than their spiral, S0, and elliptical counterparts. Radio observations indicate that a magnetic field is present in irregular galaxies whose value is similar to that in spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Siejkowski , M. Soida , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Hanasz , D. J. Bomans

Magnetic fields play an important role for the formation of stars in both local and high-redshift galaxies. Recent studies of dynamo amplification in the first dark matter haloes suggest that significant magnetic fields were likely present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-08 Piyush Sharda , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz

The detection of binary neutron star mergers represents one of the most important and complex astrophysical discoveries of the recent years. One of the unclear aspects of the problem is the turbulent magnetic field amplification, initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Daniele Viganò , Federico Carrasco , Borja Miñano , Carlos Palenzuela

Magnetic fields appear to be ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. Their existence in the intracluster medium is established through observations of synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation. On the other hand, the nature of magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dongsu Ryu , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Rudolf A. Treumann , Christos G. Tsagas , Lawrence M. Widrow

During structure formation, energetic events and random motions of the hot gas residing inside galaxy clusters (the intracluster medium, ICM) generate turbulent motions. Radio diffuse emission probes the presence of magnetic fields and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-12 M. S. Nakwacki , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , R. Santos de Lima

The amplification and maintenance of the observed magnetic fields in the ICM are usually attributed to the turbulent dynamo action. This is generally derived employing a collisional MHD model. However, in the ICM the ion mean free path…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , D. Falceta-Gonçalves , A. Lazarian , M. S. Nakwacki

Magnetic fields grow quickly even at early cosmological times, suggesting the action of a small-scale dynamo (SSD) in the interstellar medium of galaxies. Many studies have focused on idealized turbulent driving of the SSD. Here we simulate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Kapyla , Nishant K. Singh

The first galaxies form due to gravitational collapse of primordial halos. During this collapse, weak magnetic seed fields get amplified exponentially by the small-scale dynamo - a process converting kinetic energy from turbulence into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jennifer Schober , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Ralf S. Klessen , Christoph Federrath , Stefano Bovino , Simon Glover , Robi Banerjee

During the common envelope (CE) phase, a giant star in a binary system overflows its Roche lobe and unstable mass transfer leads to a spiral-in of the companion, resulting in a close binary system or in a merger of the stellar cores. Dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Friedrich K. Roepke , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Ewald Mueller

Large-scale coherent magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium are presumed to play a key role in the formation and evolution of the cosmic web, and in large scale feedback mechanisms. However, they are theorized to be extremely weak, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Ariel Amaral , Tessa Vernstrom , Bryan M. Gaensler

Turbulence in a conducting plasma can amplify seed magnetic fields in what is known as the turbulent, or small-scale, dynamo. The associated growth rate and emergent magnetic-field geometry depend sensitively on the material properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-17 Alisa K. Galishnikova , Matthew W. Kunz , Alexander A. Schekochihin

The origin of astrophysical magnetic fields observed in galaxies and clusters of galaxies is still unclear. One possibility is that primordial magnetic fields generated in the early Universe provide seeds that grow through compression and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

Magnetic fields in large scale structure filaments beyond galaxy clusters remain poorly understood. Superclusters offer a unique setting to study these low density environments, where weak signals make detection challenging. The Faraday…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 G. V. Pignataro , S. P. O'Sullivan , A. Bonafede , G. Bernardi , F. Vazza , E. Carretti

In this paper, we exploit a large suite of {\enzo} cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations adopting uniform mesh resolution, to investigate the properties of cosmic filaments under different baryonic physics and magnetogenesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, yet their formation, internal structure, and longevity have not been studied in detail. We report the results from a comprehensive numerical study that investigates the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Ross Parkin , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

We show that, during false vacuum inflation, a primordial magnetic field can be created, sufficiently strong to seed the galactic dynamo and generate the observed galactic magnetic fields. Considering the inflaton dominated regime, our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. C. Davis , K. Dimopoulos

Theory and simulations suggest that magnetic fields from radio jets and lobes powered by their central super massive black holes can be an important source of magnetic fields in the galaxy clusters. This is paper II in a series of studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman