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We present cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, with focus on the cluster outskirts. We show that large-scale cosmic accretion and mergers produce significant internal gas motions and inhomogeneous gas distribution ("clumpiness") in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-10 Daisuke Nagai

We use simulations of LSS formation to study the build-up of magnetic fields (MFs) in the ICM. Our basic assumption is that cosmological MFs grow in a MHD amplification process driven by structure formation out of a seed MF present at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Klaus Dolag , Dario Grasso , Volker Springel , Igor Tkachev

Radio continuum observations allow to reveal the magnetic field structure in the disk and halo of nearby spiral galaxies, their magnetic field strength and vertical scale heights. The spiral galaxies studied so far show a similar magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-08 Marita Krause

The detection of binary neutron star mergers represents one of the most important and complex astrophysical discoveries of the recent years. One of the unclear aspects of the problem is the turbulent magnetic field amplification, initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Daniele Viganò , Federico Carrasco , Borja Miñano , Carlos Palenzuela

We perform cosmological, hydrodynamic simulations of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The computational code combines the special-purpose hardware Grape for calculating gravitational interaction, and smooth-particle hydrodynamics for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Harald Lesch

Magnetic fields are dynamically important in the diffuse interstellar medium. Understanding how gravitationally bound, star-forming clouds form requires modeling of the fields in a self-consistent, supernova-driven, turbulent, magnetized,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen

Magnetic fields on the order of 100 $\mu$G observed in young supernova remnants cannot be amplified by shock compression alone. To investigate the amplification caused by turbulent dynamo, we perform three-dimensional MHD simulations of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , James M. Stone , Alex Lazarian

In this chapter we review recent advances in understanding the roles that magnetic fields play throughout the star formation process, gained through observations and simulations of molecular clouds, the dense, star-forming phase of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-22 Kate Pattle , Laura Fissel , Mehrnoosh Tahani , Tie Liu , Evangelia Ntormousi

Magnetic fields are one of most concealed components of the universe. They are observed as part of the intergalactic medium and on galaxy cluster scales, however their origin and evolution is unclear. In this work we use the IllustrisTNG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-04 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Dante J. Paz , Volker Springel

We use global MHD galaxy simulations to investigate the effects of spiral arms on the evolution of magnetic fields and star formation within a self-regulated interstellar medium (ISM). The same galaxy is simulated twice: once with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Hector Robinson , James Wadsley , J. A. Sellwood , Ralph E. Pudritz

During the common envelope (CE) phase, a giant star in a binary system overflows its Roche lobe and unstable mass transfer leads to a spiral-in of the companion, resulting in a close binary system or in a merger of the stellar cores. Dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Friedrich K. Roepke , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Ewald Mueller

Cosmic-ray streaming instabilities at supernova shocks are discussed in the quasilinear diffusion formalism which takes into account the feedback effect of wave growth on the cosmic ray streaming motion. In particular, the nonresonant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Qinghuan Luo , Don Melrose

Massive galaxy clusters are filled with a hot, turbulent and magnetized intra-cluster medium. Still forming under the action of gravitational instability, they grow in mass by accretion of supersonic flows. These flows partially dissipate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Francesco Miniati , Andrey Beresnyak

The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) can lead to large amplifications of the magnetic field due to the development of turbulence and instabilities in the fluid, such as the Kelvin-Helmholtz shear instability, which drive small-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Bruno Giacomazzo , Jonathan Zrake , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Rosalba Perna

Context. The influence of magnetic fields on stellar core collapse and explosion is not well explored. It depends on the possibility to amplify the pre-collapse fields. Without rotation this can happen by compression, convection, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Obergaulinger , Hans-Thomas Janka

We use numerical simulations of turbulent cluster-forming regions to study the nature of dense filamentary structures in star formation. Using four hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations chosen to match observations, we identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Helen Kirk , Ralph Pudritz , Mikhail Klassen , Samantha Pillsworth

The origin of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is widely thought to be from early Universe processes, like inflation or phase transitions. These magnetic fields evolve via magnetohydrodynamic processes until the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Molly Abramson , Emma Clarke , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Salome Mtchedlidze , Jennifer Schober

In cosmological simulations of large-scale structure star formation and feedback in galaxies are modelled by so-called sub-grid models, that represent a physically motivated approximation of processes occurring below the resolution limit.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Eirini Batziou , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Milena Valentini

We investigate binary mergers of galaxy clusters, the formation of shocks, and the resulting radio relics using three-dimensional simulations. The initial setup consists of two idealized spherical subclusters with a mass ratio below three,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Jeongbhin Seo

Existing theoretical and observational constraints on the abundance of magnetic monopoles are limited. Here we demonstrate that an ensemble of monopoles forms a plasma whose properties are well determined and whose collective effects place…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Abraham Loeb