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We discuss how gravitational waves could amplify seed magnetic fields to strengths capable of supporting the galactic dynamo. We consider the interaction of a weak magnetic field with gravity wave distortions in almost FRW cosmologies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. G. Tsagas , P. K. S. Dunsby , M. Marklund

Following the wellknown spacetime decomposition technique as applied to (d+1) dimensions we write down the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in a spatially at generalised FRW universe. Assuming an equation of state for the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 D. Panigrahi , Ajanta Das , S. Chatterjee

Gravitational wave interferometers have studied compact object mergers and solidified our understanding of strong gravity. Their increasing precision raises the possibility of detecting new physics, especially in a neutron star binary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Ian Harris , Yonatan Kahn

Gravitational waves from condensates of ultra-light particles, such as axion, around rotating black holes are a promising probe to search for unknown physics. For this purpose, we need to characterize the signal to detect the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Hidetoshi Omiya , Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka , Hirotaka Yoshino

A review of publications devoted to the study of the characteristics of the Radcliffe wave has been given. The advent of mass measurements of radial velocities of stars has recently led to a number of interesting results obtained from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-30 Vadim V. Bobylev , Nazar R. Ikhsanov , Anisa T. Bajkova

In strong magnetic fields the transport coefficients of strange quark matter become anisotropic. We determine the general form of the complete set of transport coefficients in the presence of a strong magnetic field. By using a local linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-06 Xu-Guang Huang , Mei Huang , Dirk H. Rischke , Armen Sedrakian

The density profiles of dark halos are usually inferred from the rotation curves of disk galaxies based on the assumption that the gas is a good tracer of the gravitational potential of the galaxies. Some authors have suggested that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , M. Reyes-Ruiz

The impact of the existence of gravitons with non-vanishing masses on the B modes of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is investigated. We also focus on putative modifications to the speed of the gravitational waves. We find that a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Philippe Brax , Sebastian Cespedes , Anne-Christine Davis

Strong magnetic fields make neutron stars potential sources of detectable electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals. Hence, inferring these magnetic fields is critical to understand the emissions of neutron stars. However, due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

The theory of bigravity offers one of the simplest possibilities to describe a massive graviton while having self-accelerating cosmological solutions without a cosmological constant. However, it has been shown recently that bigravity is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-29 Luca Amendola , Frank Koennig , Matteo Martinelli , Valeria Pettorino , Miguel Zumalacarregui

Despite their importance in stellar evolution, little is known about magnetic fields in the interior of stars. The recent seismic detection of magnetic fields in the core of several red giant stars has given measurements of their strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 S. Deheuvels , G. Li , J. Ballot , F. Lignières

Surface asymmetries of accreting neutron stars are investigated for their mass quadrupole moment content. Though the amplitude of the gravitational waves from such asymmetries seem to be beyond the limit of detectability of the present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Sushan Konar , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Prakash Sarkar

Triad resonances for gravity waves propagating in opposite direction with respect to uniform current are introduced. They are produced by multivalued and anisotropic dispersion and occur even in deep water. In contrast, existing literature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 David Kouskoulas , Yaron Toledo

The theory of waves and instabilities in a differentially rotating disc containing a poloidal magnetic field is developed within the framework of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. A continuous spectrum, for which the eigenfunctions are localized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. I. Ogilvie

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a powerful probe of the early universe due to their ability to free-stream across cosmic history. We study GW production in a compelling scenario where a rotating axion(-like) field becomes relevant for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 Arushi Bodas , Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada , Lian-Tao Wang

We consider possible geometries of magnetic fields in GRB outflows, and their evolution with distance from the source. For magnetically driven outflows, with an assumed ratio of magnetic to kinetic energy density of order unity, the field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. C. Spruit , F. Daigne , G. Drenkhahn

We investigate the effect of strong magnetic fields on the adiabatic radial oscillations of hadronic stars. We describe magnetized hadronic matter within the framework of the relativistic nonlinear Walecka model and integrate the equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-01 C. Vásquez Flores , L. B. Castro , G. Lugones

Observations of dwarf galaxies suggest the presence of large-scale magnetic fields. However the size and slow rotation of these galaxies appear insufficient to support a mean-field dynamo action to excite such fields. Here we suggest a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 David Moss , Dmitri Sokoloff

We study the imprint of magnetic fields on gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral phase of eccentric binary neutron star systems. While observations indicate that neutron stars typically exhibit strong magnetic fields in the range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 R. Prasad , Anushka Doke , Prayush Kumar

Finding low-mass planets around solar-type stars requires to understand the physical variability of the host star, which greatly exceeds the planet-induced radial-velocity modulation. Different solar photospheric absorption lines have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Dainis Dravins , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Matthias Steffen , Carlos Allende Prieto , Lars Koesterke