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Synoptic magnetograms and relevant proxy data were analyzed to study the evolution of the Sun's polar magnetic fields. Time-latitude analysis of large-scale magnetic fields demonstrates cyclic changes in their zonal structure and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 A. V. Mordvinov , L. L. Kitchatinov

Cosmic ray (CR) currents through magnetised plasma drive strong instabilities producing amplification of the magnetic field. This amplification helps explain the CR energy spectrum as well as observations of supernova remnants and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-31 James H. Matthews , Anthony R. Bell , Katherine M. Blundell , Anabella T. Araudo

We consider possible geometries of magnetic fields in GRB outflows, and their evolution with distance from the source. For magnetically driven outflows, with an assumed ratio of magnetic to kinetic energy density of order unity, the field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. C. Spruit , F. Daigne , G. Drenkhahn

Local inversions are often observed in the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF), but their origins and evolution are not yet fully understood.Parker Solar Probe has recently observed rapid, Alfvenic, HMF inversions in the inner heliosphere,…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Allan Macneil , Mathew Owens , Robert Wicks , Mike Lockwood , Sarah Bentley , Mathew Lang

We consider the possibility that cosmic magnetic field, instead of being uniformly distributed, is strongly correlated with the large scale structure of the universe. Then, the observed rotational measure of extra-galactic radio sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Peter L. Biermann

Magnetized high energy density physics offers new opportunities for observing magnetic field-related physics for the first time in the laser-plasma context. We focus on one such phenomenon, which is the ability of a laser-irradiated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Y. Shi , K. Weichman , R. J. Kingham , A. V. Arefiev

In weakly collisional extragalactic plasmas such as the intracluster medium, viscous stress and the rate of change of the magnetic-field strength are proportional to the local pressure anisotropy, so subject to constraints imposed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Federico Mogavero , Alexander A. Schekochihin

We present a method for determining directions of magnetic field vectors in a spiral galaxy using two synchrotron polarization maps, an optical image, and a velocity field. The orientation of the transverse magnetic field is determined with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-18 Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Kohei Kurahara , Kenta Anraku

To study some characteristics of the interstellar medium, observational data of pulsars with large Faraday rotation values (|RM|> 300 rad / m2) were used. It was suggested and justified that large |RM| values can be due to the contribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-13 R. R. Andreasyan , H. R. Andreasyan , G. M. Paronyan

The paper considers the dynamics of the plasma generated by the explosive-emission cells of the cathode spot of a vacuum arc in a magnetic field. It is shown that the expansion of the (high-density) plasma in a transverse magnetic field may…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 M. M. Tsventoukh

We examine the effect of uniform ambient magnetic fields on the evolution of supernova-driven blast waves into a homogeneous ambient ISM in thermal equilibrium. Using the Pencil Code we simulate high resolution nonideal magnetohydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-24 Cetin Can Evirgen , Frederick Gent

We report on magnetic field emergences covering significant areas of exploding granules. The balloon-borne mission SUNRISE provided high spatial and temporal resolution images of the solar photosphere. Continuum images, longitudinal and…

Magnetic fields are amplified as a consequence of galaxy formation and turbulence-driven dynamos. Galaxy mergers can potentially amplify the magnetic fields from their progenitors, making the magnetic fields dynamically important. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-05 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

As well known, magnetic fields in space are distributed very inhomogeneously. Some-times field distributions have forms of filaments with high magnetic field values. As many ob-servations show, such a filamentation takes place in convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-03 Evgeny A. Kuznetsov , Evgeny A. Mikhailov

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

Several lines of evidence suggest that protogalactic and galactic environments manage to grow magnetic field very rapidly. This makes the theoretical problem of achieving rapid growth of magnetic fields in such environments difficult.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Balsara , J. S. Kim , M. M. Mac Low , G. Mathews

Observations of sun-like stars rotating faster than our current sun tend to exhibit increased magnetic activity as well as magnetic cycles spanning multiple years. Using global simulations in spherical shells to study the coupling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

Low-mass galaxies radio observations show in many cases surprisingly high levels of magnetic field. The mass and kinematics of such objects do not favour the development of effective large-scale dynamo action. We attempted to check if the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Hubert Siejkowski , Marian Soida , Krzysztof T. Chyzy

Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter data are used to investigate the radial evolution of magnetic turbulence between $0.06 ~ \lesssim R ~\lesssim 1$ au. The spectrum is studied as a function of scale, normalized to the ion inertial scale…

We extend our investigation of magnetic field evolution in three-dimensional flows driven by the stationary accretion shock instability (SASI) with a suite of higher-resolution idealized models of the post-bounce core-collapse supernova…