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To power gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy events, large-scale magnetic fields are required to extract rotational energy from compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Alexis Reboul-Salze , Loren E. Held , Kenta Kiuchi

Numerical MHD simulations play increasingly important role for understanding mechanisms of stellar magnetism. We present simulations of convection and dynamos in density-stratified rotating spherical fluid shells. We employ a new 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Radostin D. Simitev , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Friedrich H. Busse

Results from simulations of hierarchical structure formation cosmology provide a tool to develop an evolutionary model of regular magnetic fields coupled to galaxy formation and evolution. We use the dynamo theory to derive the timescales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Dmitry Sokolff , Rodion Stepanov

Very little is known about magnetic fields of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. We use the energy flux scaling law presented by Christensen et al. (2009) to calculate the evolution of average magnetic fields in extrasolar planets and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ansgar Reiners , Ulrich R. Christensen

The Sun and other cool stars harbouring outer convection zones manifest magnetic activity in their atmospheres. The connection between this activity and the properties of a deep-seated dynamo generating the magnetic flux is not well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Emre Işık , Dieter Schmitt , Manfred Schüssler

The eruptive cycles of dwarf novae (DN) are thought to be due to a thermal-viscous instability in the accretion disk surrounding the white dwarf (WD). This model has long been known to imply a stress to pressure ratio \alpha ~0.1 in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 N. Scepi , G. Lesur , G. Dubus , M. Flock

We extend a magnetic braking (MB) model, which has been used earlier to address the evolution of cataclysmic variables, to address the spin period $P_\mathrm{spin}$ evolution of fully convective M dwarf (FCMD) stars. The MB mechanism is an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Arnab Sarkar , Lev Yungelson , Christopher A. Tout

Recent asteroseismic analyses have revealed the presence of strong (B $\gtrsim 10^5$ G) magnetic fields in the cores of many red giant stars. Here, we examine the implications of these results for the evolution of stellar magnetic fields,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Matteo Cantiello , Jim Fuller , Lars Bildsten

In this work we explore the evolution of magnetic fields inside strongly magnetized neutron stars in axisymmetry. We model numerically the coupled field evolution in the core and the crust. Our code models the Hall drift and Ohmic effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Ashley Bransgrove , Yuri Levin , Andrei Beloborodov

Over the last decade, tremendous strides have been achieved in our understanding of magnetism in main sequence hot stars. In particular, the statistical occurrence of their surface magnetism has been established (~10%) and the field origin…

A magnetic dynamo driven by differential rotation generated when stars merge can explain strong fields in certain classes of magnetic stars, including the high field magnetic white dwarfs (HFMWDs). In their case the site of the differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gordon P. Briggs , Lilia Ferrario , Christopher A. Tout , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe , Jarrod R. Hurley

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysical accretion discs, and in the interstellar and intergalactic medium. They drive jets, suppress fragmentation in star-forming clouds and can have a significant impact on the accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Christoph Federrath

Merger of two white dwarfs (WDs) has been proposed to form an isolated WD having high magnetization and rapid rotation. We study the influence of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wind on spin evolution of the newly-formed merger product. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Yanchang Cheng , Jumpei Takata

Using direct numerical simulations (DNS), we study laminar and turbulent dynamos in chiral magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with an extended set of equations that accounts for an additional contribution to the electric current due to the chiral…

By following the Kazantsev theory and taking into account both microscopic and turbulent diffusion of magnetic fields, we develop a unified treatment of the kinematic and nonlinear stages of turbulent dynamo, and study the dynamo process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Siyao Xu , A. Lazarian

We consider the expulsion of the magnetic field from the super-conducting core of a neutron star and its subsequent decay in the crust. Particular attention is paid to a strong feedback of the distortion of magnetic field lines in the crust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Konenkov , U. Geppert

The mechanism by which the Earth's magnetic field is generated is thought to be thermal convection in the metallic liquid iron core. Computational considerations previously restricted most numerical simulations to a regime where the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-17 Andrey Sheyko , Christopher Finlay , Jean Favre , Andrew Jackson

Even though magnetic fields play an important role in galaxy evolution, the redshift evolution of galactic-scale magnetic fields is not well constrained observationally. In this paper we aim to provide an observational constraint on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-18 Timea Orsolya Kovacs , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Yik Ki Ma , B. M. Gaensler

We analyse the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in spatially flat Friedmann universes and reconsider the belief that, after inflation, these fields decay adiabatically on all scales. Without~abandoning classical electromagnetism or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-11 Christos G. Tsagas

Rapidly rotating late M dwarfs are observed in two different branches of magnetic activity, although they operate in the same stellar parameter range. Current empirical evidence indicates that M dwarfs with spectral types ranging from M3 /…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Giuseppina Nigro , Francesco Berrilli , Giuseppe Bono , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli , Valentina Penza , Raffaele Reda