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Radio synchrotron emission is a powerful tool to study the strength and structure of magnetic fields in galaxies. Unpolarized synchrotron emission traces isotropic turbulent fields which are strongest in spiral arms and bars (20-30 \mu G)…

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We use cosmological magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters in two different cosmological models, a standard-CDM and a $\Lambda$-CDM model. We show that the magnetic field strength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Harald Lesch

The explanation of the observed galactic magnetic fields may require the existence of a primordial magnetic field. Such a field may arise during the early cosmological phase transitions, or because of other particle physics related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kari Enqvist

We have performed extensive two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the amplification of magnetic fields when a supernova blast wave propagates into a turbulent interstellar plasma. The blast wave is driven by injecting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Fan Guo , Shengtai Li , Hui Li , Joe Giacalone , J. R. Jokipii , David Li

We study relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks using unprecedentedly large particle-in-cell simulations of two-dimensional pair plasma. High energy particles accelerated by the shock are found to drive magnetic field evolution on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Uri Keshet , Boaz Katz , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Eli Waxman

We present results of three-dimensional, fully nonlinear MHD simulations of a large-scale magnetic field evolution in a barred galaxy. The model does not take into consideration the dynamo process. We find that the obtained magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Kulesza-Żydzik , K. Kulpa-Dybeł , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , G. Kowal , M. Soida

We construct magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) similarity rebound shocks joining `quasi-static' asymptotic solutions around the central degenerate core to explore an MHD model for the evolution of random magnetic field in supernova explosions. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yu-Qing Lou , Wei-Gang Wang

We present a model for the seeding and evolution of magnetic fields in protogalaxies. Supernova (SN) explosions during the assembly of a protogalaxy provide magnetic seed fields, which are subsequently amplified by compression, shear flows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Alexander M. Beck , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Philipp P. Kronberg

We develop an analytical model to follow the cosmological evolution of magnetic fields in disk galaxies. Our assumption is that fields are amplified from a small seed field via magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. We further assume that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stanislav Shabala , James M. G. Mead , Paul Alexander

Context. Regularly-spaced, star-forming regions along the spiral arms of nearby galaxies provide insight into the early stages and initial conditions of star formation. The regular separation of these star-forming regions suggests spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-24 Raghav Arora , Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee , Bastian Körtgen

Composed of shocked solar wind, the Earth's magnetosheath serves as a natural laboratory to study the transition of turbulence from low Alfv{\'e}n Mach number, $M_\mathrm{A}$, to high $M_\mathrm{A}$. The simultaneous observations of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Hui Li , Wence Jiang , Chi Wang , Daniel Verscharen , Chen Zeng , C. T. Russell , B. Giles , J. L. Burch

Magnetic fields play a very important role in the evolution of galaxies through their direct impact on star formation and stellar feedback-induced turbulence. However, their co-evolution with these processes has still not been thoroughly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Evangelia Ntormousi

The extra stiffness that the magnetic field adds to the ISM changes the way it reacts to the presence of a spiral perturbation. At intermediate to high z, the gas shoots up before the arm, flows over, and falls behind it, as it approaches…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gilberto C. Gomez , Donald P. Cox

We study the cosmic evolution of the magnetic fields of a large sample of spiral galaxies in a cosmologically representative volume by employing a semi-analytic galaxy formation model and numerical dynamo solver in tandem. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , Carlton M. Baugh , A. Russ Taylor

The origin and structure of the magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies is investigated with 3D, non-ideal, compressible MHD simulations, including stratification in the galactic gravity field, differential rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-01 F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , G. R. Sarson , M. J. Mantere

Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) adaptive mesh refinement simulations, we study the formation and early evolution of disk galaxies with a magnetized interstellar medium. For a $10^{10}$ \msun halo with initial NFW dark matter and gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Peng Wang , Tom Abel

We study a simple magnetohydrodynamical approach in which hydrodynamics and MHD turbulence are coupled in a shell model, with given dynamo constrains in the large scales. We consider the case of a low Prandtl number fluid for which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Benzi , Jean-Francois Pinton

We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in an expanding cosmic plasma. For this purpose we present a comprehensive theoretical model to consider the evolution of MHD turbulence that can be used over a wide range of physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Alexander G. Tevzadze

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

We have carried out numerical simulations of freely decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions, which can be applied to the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields in the early Universe. For helical magnetic fields an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Hindmarsh , M. Christensson , A. Brandenburg