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In nearby star-forming clouds, amplification and dissipation of the magnetic field are known to play crucial roles in the star-formation process. The star-forming environment varies from place to place and era to era in galaxies. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Koki Higuchi , Masahiro N. Machida , Hajime Susa

Magnetic fields pervade astrophysical systems and strongly influence their dynamics. Because magnetic diffusion is usually much faster than system evolution, ancient fields cannot explain the present magnetization of planets, stars, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Albert Elias-López

Massive stars are crucial building blocks of galaxies and the universe, as production sites of heavy elements and as stirring agents and energy providers through stellar winds and supernovae. The field of magnetic massive stars has seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Georges Meynet

Magnetic fields are observed beyond the peripheries of optically detected galactic discs, while numerical models of their origin and the typical magnitudes are still absent. Previously, studies of galactic dynamo have avoided considering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 E. Mikhailov , A. Kasparova , D. Moss , R. Beck , D. Sokoloff , A. Zasov

We study the magnetic field evolution of an isolated spiral galaxy, using isolated Milky Way-mass galaxy formation simulations and a novel prescription for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) supernova feedback. Our main result is that a galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Iryna Butsky , Jonathan Zrake , Ji-hoon Kim , Hung-I Yang , Tom Abel

At metallicities lower than that of the Small Magellanic Cloud, it remains essentially unexplored how fossil magnetic fields, forming large-scale magnetospheres, could affect the evolution of massive stars, thereby impacting the fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Z. Keszthelyi , J. Puls , G. Chiaki , H. Nagakura , A. ud-Doula , T. Takiwaki , N. Tominaga

Most of the baryonic matter in the Universe is permeated by magnetic fields which affect many, if not most, of astrophysical phenomena both, in compact sources and in diffuse gas. Recent years have been marked by a worldwide surge of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Stellar magnetic dynamos are driven by rotation, rapidly rotating stars produce stronger magnetic fields than slowly rotating stars do. The Zeeman effect is the most important indicator of magnetic fields, but Zeeman broadening must be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ansgar Reiners

Dynamos in astrophysical disks are usually explained in terms of the standard alpha-omega mean field dynamo model where the local helicity generates a radial field component from an azimuthal field. The subsequent shearing of the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ethan T. Vishniac

We present new developments on the Cosmic--Ray driven, galactic dynamo, modeled by means of direct, resistive CR--MHD simulations, performed with ZEUS and PIERNIK codes. The dynamo action, leading to the amplification of large--scale…

We compare the current effects of rotation in stellar evolution to those of the magnetic field created by the Tayler instability. In stellar regions, where magnetic field can be generated by the dynamo due to differential rotation (Spruit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andre Maeder , Georges Meynet

We derive analytically the vorticity generated downstream of a two-dimensional rippled hydromagnetic shock neglecting fluid viscosity and resistivity. The growth of the turbulent component of the downstream magnetic field is driven by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Fraschetti

(abridged) We investigate the possibility to recognize the magnetic field structures in nearby galaxies and to test the cosmological evolution of their large- and small-scale magnetic fields with the SKA and its precursors. We estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 T. G. Arshakian , R. Stepanov , R. Beck , M. Krause , D. Sokoloff , P. Frick

Even though magnetic fields play an important role in galaxy evolution, the redshift evolution of galactic-scale magnetic fields is not well constrained observationally. In this paper we aim to provide an observational constraint on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-18 Timea Orsolya Kovacs , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Yik Ki Ma , B. M. Gaensler

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

Observations of magnetic A, B and O stars show that the poloidal magnetic flux per unit mass has an upper bound of 10^-6.5 G cm^2/g. A similar upper bound is found for magnetic white dwarfs even though the highest magnetic field strengths…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Dayal T. Wickramasinghe , Christopher A. Tout , Lilia Ferrario

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

Many studies concluded that magnetic fields suppress star formation in molecular clouds and Milky Way like galaxies. However, most of these studies are based on fully developed fields that have reached the saturation level, with little work…

The question of whether a dynamo can be triggered by gravitational collapse is of great interest, especially for the early Universe. Here, we employ supercomoving coordinates to study the magnetic field amplification from decaying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Axel Brandenburg , Evangelia Ntormousi

We carried out a parameter study of interacting disk galaxies with impact parameters ranging from central collisions to weakly interacting scenarios. The orientations of the disks were also varied. In particular, we investigated how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-18 Simon Selg , Wolfram Schmidt