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Magnetic fields are considered as a vital ingredient of contemporary star formation, and may have been important during the formation of the first stars in the presence of an efficient amplification mechanism. Initial seed fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Muhammad A. Latif , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

We consider the evolution of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological, electroweak or QCD, phase transitions. We assume that the magnetic field generation can be described as an injection of magnetic energy to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Axel Brandenburg , Andrii Neronov

We investigate the magnetic field evolution in a series of galaxy minor mergers using the N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code \textsc{Gadget}. The simulations include the effects of radiative cooling, star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Annette Geng , Hanna Kotarba , Florian Bürzle , Klaus Dolag , Federico Stasyszyn , Alexander Beck , Peter Nielaba

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

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can enhance matter power spectrum on small scales ($\lesssim$ Mpc) and still agree with bounds from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Faraday rotation measurements. As modes on scales smaller than Mpc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Pranjal Ralegankar , Mak Pavičević , Matteo Viel

We explore the amplification of magnetic seed fields during the formation of the first stars and galaxies. During gravitational collapse, turbulence is created from accretion shocks, which may act to amplify weak magnetic fields in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Sharanya Sur , Tigran G. Arshakian , Ralf S. Klessen , Rainer Beck , Marco Spaans

We give an improved estimate of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological first order phase transitions. We examine the charge distribution at the nucleated bubble wall and its dynamics. We consider instabilities on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Guenter Sigl , Angela Olinto , Karsten Jedamzik

Star formation is a complex process involving the interplay of many physical effects, including gravity, turbulent gas dynamics, magnetic fields and radiation. Our understanding of the process has improved substantially in recent years,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

Magnetic fields are observed not only in stars, but in galaxies, clusters, and even high redshift Lyman-alpha systems. In principle, these fields could play an important role in structure formation and also affect the anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roy Maartens

Galaxy mergers are expected to play a central role for the evolution of galaxies, and may have a strong impact on their magnetic fields. We present the first grid-based 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations investigating the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Kai Rodenbeck , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

We point out that the lower bound on the primordial magnetic field required to seed the galactic dynamo is significantly relaxed in an open universe or in a universe with a positive cosmological constant. It is shown that, for reasonable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anne-Christine Davis , Matthew Lilley , Ola Tornkvist

(Abridged) Context. Most massive stars are located in multiple stellar systems. Magnetic fields are believed to be essential in the accretion and ejection processes around single massive protostars. Aims. Our aim is to unveil the influence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 R. Mignon-Risse , M. González , B. Commerçon

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

Using a high-resolution simulation of a dwarf galaxy, we quantify the energetic importance of magnetic fields within the different phases of its interstellar medium (ISM) on parsec scales. We show that, whilst overall the magnetic field is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Ryan McGuiness , Rowan J. Smith , David Whitworth

Cold ($T\sim 10^{4} \ \mathrm{K}$) gas is very commonly found in both galactic and cluster halos. There is no clear consensus on its origin. Such gas could be uplifted from the central galaxy by galactic or AGN winds. Alternatively, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-10 Suoqing Ji , S. Peng Oh , Michael McCourt

Magnetic fields in galaxies are believed to be the result of dynamo amplification of initially weak seed fields, reaching equipartition strength inside the interstellar medium. The small-scale dynamo appears to be a viable mechanism to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) may significantly influence 21-cm physics via two mechanisms: (i) magnetic heating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) through ambipolar diffusion (AD) and decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (DT), (ii)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Arko Bhaumik , Debarun Paul , Supratik Pal

We consider that no mean magnetic field exists during this epoch, but that there is a mean magnetic energy associated with large-scale magnetic inhomogeneities. We study the evolution of these inhomogeneities and their influence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 E. Battaner , E. Florido , J. Jimenez-Vicente

Direct collapse black holes (DCBHs) are the leading candidates for the origin of the first supermassive black holes. However, the role of magnetic fields during their formation is still unclear as none of the previous studies has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Muhammad A. Latif , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Sadegh Khochfar

We examine the impact of the magnetic field on Population III star formation by varying the magnetic field strength. We perform simulations with magnetic field strengths ranging from $10^{-20}$ G to $10^{-4}$ G, in addition to a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Masahiro N. Machida , Shingo Hirano , Shantanu Basu