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Star-forming galaxies which are too faint to be detected individually produce intensity fluctuations in the cosmic background light. This contribution needs to be taken into account as a foreground when using the primordial signal to…

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The Sun and solar-type stars exhibit irregular cyclic variations in their magnetic activity over long time scales. To understand this irregularity, we employed the flux transport dynamo models to investigate the behavior of one solar mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Vindya Vashishth

Spiral galaxies host dynamically important magnetic fields which can affect gas flows in the disks and halos. Total magnetic fields in spiral galaxies are strongest (up to 30 \muG) in the spiral arms where they are mostly turbulent or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Rainer Beck

We present a new deep optical study of a luminosity limited sample of nearby elliptical galaxies, attempting to observe the effects of gravitational interactions on the ISM of these objects. This study is motivated by recent observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tomer Tal , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Jeffrey D. P. Kenney

We study the effects of thermal fluctuations on elastic rings. Analytical expressions are derived for correlation functions of Euler angles, mean square distance between points on the ring contour, radius of gyration, and probability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergey Panyukov , Yitzhak Rabin

We investigate the cosmological evolution of large- and small-scale magnetic fields in galaxies at high redshifts. Results from simulations of hierarchical structure formation cosmology provide a tool to develop an evolutionary model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Dmitry Sokoloff

Magnetic fields are critical at many scales to galactic dynamics and structure, including multiphase pressure balance, dust processing, and star formation. Dynamo action determines their dynamical structure and strength. Simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg , Touko Puro , Matthias Reinhardt

Recent rotation measure observations of a dozen or so galaxy clusters have revealed a surprisingly large amount of magnetic fields, whose estimated energy and flux are, on average, $\sim 10^{58}$ ergs and $\sim 10^{41}$ G cm$^2$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stirling A. Colgate , Hui Li

To determine the properties of the Faraday screen and the magnetic field near the central region of the Galaxy, we measured the Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 60 background extragalactic source components through the -6 deg < l <6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan

Interstellar magnetic fields are strong: up to 25 muG in spiral arms and 40 muG in nuclear regions. In the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 the average magnetic energy density exceeds that of the thermal gas. Magnetic fields control the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rainer Beck

We analyse the role of a fluctuating alpha-effect in alpha-omega dynamo models, and show that there is a mechanism for magnetic field generation, valid at large scale separation, deriving from the interaction of mean shear and a fluctuating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael R. E. Proctor

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe and an important component of the interstellar medium. It is crucial to accurately model and understand their properties in different environments and across all mass ranges of galaxies to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Maria Werhahn , Rüdiger Pakmor , Rebekka Bieri , Freeke van de Voort , Rosie Y. Talbot , Volker Springel

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Recently, cosmological simulations of galaxies have successfully begun to incorporate magnetic fields and their evolution in galaxies and their haloes. However, so far they have mostly focused…

Magnetic fields are widely recognised as critical at many scales to galactic dynamics and structure, including multiphase pressure balance, dust processing, and star formation. Using imposed magnetic fields cannot reliably model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Frederick A. Gent , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg

The magnetization dynamics of ferromagnets are often formulated in terms of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. The reactive part of this equation describes the response of the magnetization in terms of effective fields, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We argue that the recently reported Kolmogorov-like magnetic turbulence spectrum in the cool core of the Hydra A galaxy cluster can be understood by kinetic energy injection by active galaxies that drives a turbulent non-helical magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. A. Ensslin , C. Vogt

Our aim in this note is to compare a recent explanation of the galactic X pattern in Faraday Rotation (XRM), to that produced by the advection part of the classical dynamo.We find that the characteristic X magnetic field polarization in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 R N Henriksen

Small-scale fluctuating magnetic fields of order $n$G are observed in supernova shocks and galaxy clusters, where its amplification is likely caused by the Biermann battery mechanism. However, these fields cannot be amplified further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Justin Kin Jun Hew , Christoph Federrath

Arguably the main challenge of galactic magnetism studies is to explain how the interstellar medium of galaxies reaches energetic equipartition despite the extremely weak cosmic primordial magnetic fields that are originally predicted to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier