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Dynamos wherein magnetic field is produced from velocity fluctuations are fundamental to our understanding of several astrophysical and/or laboratory phenomena. Though fluid helicity is known to play a key role in the onset of dynamo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Shishir Biswas , Rajaraman Ganesh

We review our current understanding of galactic dynamo theory, paying particular attention to numerical simulations both of the mean-field equations and the original three-dimensional equations relevant to describing the magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-12 Axel Brandenburg

We demonstrate that conservation of global helicity plays only a minor role in determining the nature and consequences of magnetic reconnection in the solar atmosphere. First, we show that observations of the solar coronal magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

The extent to which large scale magnetic fields are susceptible to turbulent diffusion is important for interpreting the need for in situ large scale dynamos in astrophysics and for observationally inferring field strengths compared to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric G. Blackman , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Evolving magnetic fields are frequently embedded in plasmas that are turbulent. When the primary interest is in effects that are on a large scale compared to that of the turbulence, it is desirable to average over the turbulence to obtain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Allen H Boozer

The goal of local helioseismology is to elicit three-dimensional information about the sub-surface (or far-side) structure and dynamics of the Sun from observations of the helioseismic wave field at the surface. The physical quantities of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hannah Schunker

We determine the effect of intergalactic magnetic fields on the distribution of high energy gamma rays by performing three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of the development of gamma-ray-induced electromagnetic cascades in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 Rafael Alves Batista , Andrey Saveliev , Guenter Sigl , Tanmay Vachaspati

In this ISSI-supported series of studies on magnetic helicity in the Sun, we systematically implement different magnetic helicity calculation methods on high-quality solar magnetogram observations. We apply finite-volume, discrete flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 J. K. Thalmann , M. K. Georgoulis , Y. Liu , E. Pariat , G. Valori , S. Anfinogentov , F. Chen , Y. Guo , K. Moraitis , S. Yang , A. Mastrano

In this paper we study the effects of hemispheric imbalance of magnetic helicity density on breaking the equatorial reflection symmetry of the dynamo generated large-scale magnetic field. Our study employs the axisymmetric dynamo model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 S. Yang , V. V. Pipin , D. D. Sokoloff , K. M. Kuzanyan , H. Zhang

The alpha effect is believed to play a key role in the generation of the solar magnetic field. A fundamental test for its significance in the solar dynamo is to look for magnetic helicity of opposite signs in the two hemispheres, and at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 A. Prabhu , A. Brandenburg , M. J. Käpylä , A. Lagg

Much of the information about the magnetic field in the Milky Way and other galaxies comes from measurements which are path integrals, such as Faraday rotation and the polarization of synchrotron radiation of cosmic ray electrons. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-05 Steven R. Spangler

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows focusing at scales larger than the forcing scale. Our results show a nonlocal inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, which occurs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-23 Moritz Linkmann , Vassilios Dallas

Measuring the magnetic helicity distribution in the solar corona can help in understanding the trigger of solar eruptive events because magnetic helicity is believed to play a key role in solar activity due to its conservation property. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-11 K. Dalmasse , E. Pariat , G. Valori , P. Démoulin , L. M. Green

It is shown that the helicity of three dimensional viscous incompressible flow can be identified with the overall linking of the fluid's initial vorticity to the expectation of a stochastic mean field limit. The relevant mean field limit is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-20 Simon Hochgerner

Fluxes of the magnetic helicity density play an important role in large-scale turbulent dynamos, allowing the growth of large-scale magnetic fields while overcoming catastrophic quenching. We show here, analytically, how several important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-27 Kishore Gopalakrishnan , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study the characteristic size and shape of idealized blazar-induced cascade halos in the $1-100 \, {\rm GeV}$ energy range assuming various non-helical and helical configurations for the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Andrew J. Long , Tanmay Vachaspati

Magnetic interaction between a weighing sample and an external magnetic field allows to measure characteristics of magnetic field (a sample with known magnetic characteristics), as well as the magnetic properties of a sample (a known…

In numerical studies of turbulence, hyperviscosity is often used as a tool to extend the inertial subrange and to reduce the dissipative subrange. By analogy, hyperdiffusivity (or hyperresistivity) is sometimes used in magnetohydrodynamics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Axel Brandenburg , Graeme R. Sarson

In [J. Cantarella, J. Parsley, J. Geom. Phys. 60:1127 (2010)] Cantarella and Parsley introduced the notion of submanifold helicity. In the present paper we investigate properties of surface helicity and in particular answer two open…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Wadim Gerner

We continue our attempt to connect observational data on current helicity in solar active regions with solar dynamo models. In addition to our previous results about temporal and latitudinal distributions of current helicity (Kleeorin et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Zhang , D. Sokoloff , I. Rogachevskii , D. Moss , V. Lamburt , K. Kuzanyan , N. Kleeorin