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The flow of a matter, accreting onto a magnetized neutron star, is accompanied by an electric current. The closing of the electric current occurs in the crust of a neutron stars in the polar region across the magnetic field. But the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-01 Ya. N. Istomin , I. A. Semerikov

Cosmic strings are a type of cosmic defect formed by a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe. Individual strings would have gathered to build a network, and their dynamical motion would induce scalar--, vector-- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-07 Kouichirou Horiguchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

Longitudinal and transverse behavior of magnetic field of relativistic nonlinear three-dimensional plasma wave is investigated. It is shown that the magnetic field of the wave is different from zero and performs higher frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. G. Khachatryan

As well known, magnetic fields in space are distributed very inhomogeneously. Some-times field distributions have forms of filaments with high magnetic field values. As many ob-servations show, such a filamentation takes place in convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-03 Evgeny A. Kuznetsov , Evgeny A. Mikhailov

The problem of the cosmic ray origin is discussed in connection with their acceleration in supernova remnant shocks. The diffusive shock acceleration mechanism is reviewed and its potential to accelerate particles to the maximum energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H. Diamond , M. A. Malkov

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

Magnetic field amplification by relativistic streaming plasma instabilities is central to a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical environments as well as to laboratory scenarios associated with intense lasers and electron beams. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. R. Peterson , S. Glenzer , F. Fiuza

In this letter, we discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroshi Ohno , Hidekazu Hanayama

Magnetic fields are amplified as a consequence of galaxy formation and turbulence-driven dynamos. Galaxy mergers can potentially amplify the magnetic fields from their progenitors, making the magnetic fields dynamically important. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-05 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

We derive analytically the vorticity generated downstream of a two-dimensional rippled hydromagnetic shock neglecting fluid viscosity and resistivity. The growth of the turbulent component of the downstream magnetic field is driven by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Fraschetti

We study the evolution of an inflation-generated magnetic field, due to its coupling to fluid motions, during cosmological phase transitions. We find that the magnetic field stays almost unchanged on large scales, while on small scales the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Leonardo Campanelli , Bharat Ratra , Alexander G. Tevzadze

We present results of a cosmological hydrodynamical study of gravitational accretion in cosmic string wakes and filaments. Cosmic string wakes are formed by fast moving (v ~ c) strings. A conical deficit angle in the string spacetime…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Sornborger , R. Brandenberger , B. Fryxell , K. Olson

In most of the literature on evolution of cosmological magnetic fields, it is found that large-scale magnetic fields evolve as $B^{2}\propto a^{-4}$ (adiabatic magnetic decay) where $a$ is the cosmological scale factor and $B$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-23 Timothy Oreta , Bob Osano

We study how the presence of a background magnetic field, of intensity compatible with current observation constraints, affects the linear evolution of cosmological density perturbations at scales below the Hubble radius. The magnetic field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-22 Massimiliano Lattanzi , Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani

We discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the second order.…

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an ionized plasma is considered with a focus on the generation of magnetic field via the Biermann battery mechanisms. The problem is studied through direct numerical simulations of two counter-directed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Mikhail Modestov , Vitaly Bychkov , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Axel Brandenburg

The growth and saturation of magnetic field in conducting turbulent media with large magnetic Prandtl numbers are investigated. This regime is very common in low-density hot astrophysical plasmas. During the early (kinematic) stage, weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , G. W. Hammett , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

The baryon density enhancement in cosmic string wakes leads to a stronger coupling of the spin temperature to the gas kinetic temperate inside these string wakes than in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The Wouthuysen Field (WF) effect has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Oscar F. Hernandez

We use three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic fields on the energy transport and structure of radiation pressure dominated main sequence massive star envelopes at the region of the iron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Yan-Fei Jiang , Matteo Cantiello , Lars Bildsten , Eliot Quataert , Omer Blaes

Intense electromagnetic fields are created in the quark-gluon plasma by the external ultra-relativistic valence charges. The time-evolution and the strength of this field are strongly affected by the electrical conductivity of the plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Evan Stewart , Kirill Tuchin