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We consider the possibility of generation of the seeds of primordial magnetic field on inflation and show that the effect of the back reaction of this field can be very important. Assuming that back reaction does not spoil inflation we find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Vittoria Demozzi , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Hector Rubinstein

Large-scale magnetic fields in galaxies are thought to be generated by a turbulent dynamo. However the same turbulence also leads to a small-scale dynamo which generates magnetic noise at a more rapid rate. The efficiency of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 K. Subramanian

Magnetic fields are present in a wide variety of stars throughout the HR diagram and play a role at basically all evolutionary stages, from very-low-mass dwarfs to very massive stars, and from young star-forming molecular clouds and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 JF Donati , JD Landstreet

Astrophysical objects with negligible resistivity are often threaded by large scale magnetic fields. The generation of these fields is somewhat mysterious, since a magnetic field in a perfectly conducting fluid cannot change the flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. T. Vishniac , A. Lazarian , J. Cho

We investigate phase transitions due to excited Q-balls. As excited Q-balls have angular momentum, a magnetic field can be generated if one considers gauged Q-balls. Based on the course of the phase transition we estimate the strength of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsuya Shiromizu

Dynamical extra dimensions break the conformal invariance of Maxwell's equations in four dimensions. A higher dimensional background with $n$ contracting extra dimensions and four expanding dimensions is matched to an effectively four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Kerstin E. Kunze

The existence of magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies is now well established through different methods of analysis. Magnetic fields are investigated in the radio band from studies of the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Federica Govoni , Luigina Feretti

A framework is introduced for coupling the evolution of galactic magnetic fields sustained by the mean-field dynamo with the formation and evolution of galaxies in cold dark matter cosmology. Estimates of the steady-state strength of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Carlton Baugh

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an ionized plasma is considered with a focus on the generation of magnetic field via the Biermann battery mechanisms. The problem is studied through direct numerical simulations of two counter-directed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Mikhail Modestov , Vitaly Bychkov , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Axel Brandenburg

We demonstrate that a quasi-uniform cosmological seed field is a much less suitable seed for a galactic dynamo than has often been believed. The age of the Universe is insufficient for a conventional galactic dynamo to generate a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmitri Sokoloff , David Moss

The magnetic helicity has paramount significance in nonlinear saturation of galactic dynamo. We argue that the magnetic helicity conservation is violated at the lepton stage in the evolution of early Universe. As a result, a cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. B. Semikoz , D. D. Sokoloff

The origin of cosmic magnetic fields is widely attributed to the amplification of weak seed fields by turbulent dynamos. However, a critical understanding gap remains between the microscopic generation of these seeds and the macroscopic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 X. Liu , D. Wu , J. Zhang

Magnetic fields of laboratory, planetary, stellar, and galactic plasmas commonly exhibit significant order on large temporal or spatial scales compared to the otherwise random motions within the hosting system. Such ordered fields can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Eric G. Blackman

We derive the minimal seed magnetic field which unavoidably arises in the radiation and matter eras, prior to recombination, by the rotational velocity of ions and electrons, gravitationally induced by the non-linear evolution of primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Matarrese , S. Mollerach , A. Notari , A. Riotto

Spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way, have large-scale magnetic fields with significant energy densities. The dominant theory attributes these magnetic fields to a large-scale dynamo. We review the current status of dynamo theory and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-31 Axel Brandenburg , Evangelia Ntormousi

The generation of magnetic fields by a battery, operating in an ion-electron plasma around a Kerr black hole, is studied in the 3+1 split of the Kerr metric. It is found that the gravitomagnetic contributions to the electron partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramon Khanna

A generation of magnetic fields from cosmological density perturbations is investigated. In the primordial plasma before cosmological recombination, all of the materials except dark matter in the universe exist in the form of photons,…

Magnetic fields are observed everywhere in the universe. In this review, we concentrate on the observational aspects of the magnetic fields of Galactic and extragalactic objects. Readers can follow the milestones in the observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. L. Han , R. Wielebinski

The Sun is a magnetically active star and is the source of the solar wind, electromagnetic radiation and energetic particles which affect the heliosphere and the Earths atmosphere. The magnetic field of the Sun is responsible for most of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Soumitra Hazra

Theoretical and experimental foundations of the hypothesis about the origin of the magnetic fields of the Earth and other astrophysical objects, proposed in the early 20th century by W. Sutherland, A. Einstein, and independently by Yu.S.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Babenko I. A. , Zhilkin A. G
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