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The origin of the magnetic field in galaxies is an open question in astrophysics. Several mechanisms have been proposed related, in general, with the generation of small seed fields amplified by a dynamo mechanism. In general, these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 O. D. Miranda , M. Opher , R. Opher

The origin of large magnetic fields in the Universe remains currently unknown. We investigate here a mechanism before recombination based on known physics. The source of the vorticity is due to the changes in the photon distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ophélia Fabre , S. Shankaranarayanan

Origin of the magnetic field ubiquitous in the Universe is studied based on the Biermann mechanism, which is expected to work in the non-barotropic region. We perform a series of two-dimensional MHD simulations of the first generation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-17 Hidekazu Hanayama , Keitaro Takahashi , Kohji Tomisaka

The fermion self-energy is calculated for a cold QED plasma with chiral chemical potential in a magnetic field. It is found that a momentum shift parameter dynamically generated in such a plasma leads to a modification of the chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 D. O. Rybalka

We consider the hypothesis that galactic magnetic fields are primordial. We also discuss the various objections to this hypothesis. We assume that there was a magnetic field present in the galactic plasma before the galaxy formed. After the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Armando M. Howard , Russell M. Kulsrud

We study the evolution of an inflation-generated magnetic field, due to its coupling to fluid motions, during cosmological phase transitions. We find that the magnetic field stays almost unchanged on large scales, while on small scales the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Leonardo Campanelli , Bharat Ratra , Alexander G. Tevzadze

Magnetic fields have been observed in galaxies, clusters of galaxies and probably in superclusters. While mechanisms exist to generate these in the late universe, it is possible that magnetic fields have existed since very early times. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-07 Iain A. Brown

The chiral magnetic effect (CME), arising from the chiral anomaly and enabling a mutual conversion between magnetic topology and fermionic chirality, is a key mechanism in magnetar field evolution. Previous work by Dehman & Pons (2025)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Clara Dehman

It is usually assumed that when Weyl invariance is unbroken in the electromagnetic sector, the energy density of primordial magnetic fields will redshift as radiation. Here we show that primordial magnetic fields do not exhibit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Takeshi Kobayashi , Martin S. Sloth

We present a theory of generation of strong (sub-equipartition) magnetic fields in relativistic collisionless GRB shocks. These fields produced by the kinetic two-stream instability are tangled on very small spatial scales. This has a clear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Mikhail V. Medvedev

For finite systems boundaries can introduce remarkable novel features. A well known example is the Casimir effect [1, 2] that is observed in quantum electrodynamic systems. In classical systems too novel effects associated with finite…

Building on earlier work, we develop an equation-of-motion method for calculating magnetic seed fields generated from currents arising from charged W fields in bubble collisions during a first-order primordial electroweak phase transition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Trevor Stevens , Mikkel B. Johnson

We consider the process of magnetogenesis in the context of nonsingular bounce cosmology. We show that large primordial magnetic fields can be generated during contraction without encountering strong coupling and backreaction issues. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Peng Qian , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Zong-Kuan Guo

A thermodynamic model for the generation of magnetic fields in the planets is proposed, considering crossed effects between gravitational and electric forces. The magnetic field of the Earth is estimated and found to be in agreement with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. X. Alvarez

Primordial magnetic fields of cosmologically interesting field strengths can be generated from gravitationally coupled electrodynamics during inflation. As the cosmological constraints require this to be power law inflation it is not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 Kerstin E. Kunze

We review the possible mechanisms for the generation of cosmological magnetic fields, discuss their evolution in an expanding Universe filled with the cosmic plasma and provide a critical review of the literature on the subject. We put…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Durrer , A. Neronov

Magnetic fields play a vital role in numerous astrophysical processes such as star formation and the interstellar medium. In particular, their role in the formation and evolution of galaxies is not well understood. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Huai-Hsuan Chiu , Ke-Jung Chen

Primordial magnetic field generated in the inflationary era can act as a viable source for the present day intergalactic magnetic field of sufficient strength. We present a fundamental origin for such a primordial generation of the magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-20 Sumanta Chakraborty , Supratik Pal , Soumitra SenGupta

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yutaka Fujita , Tsunehiko N. Kato

Cosmic magnetic fields may be generated during early cosmic phase transition, such as the QCD- or electroweak- transitions. The magnitude of the remainder of such fields at the present epoch crucially depends on the exponent $n$ of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Karsten Jedamzik , Guenter Sigl