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Axions are very light, very weakly interacting particles postulated more than 30 years ago in the context of the Standard Model of particle physics. Their existence could explain the missing dark matter of the universe. However, despite…

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Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

We numerically study the evolution of magnetic fields and fluid flows in a thin spherical shell. We take the initial field to be a latitudinally confined, predominantly toroidal flux tube. For purely toroidal, untwisted flux tubes, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-29 R. Hollerbach , P. S. Cally

We study the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent hot plasma of the early Universe accounting for the chiral magnetic effect. The magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is modeled by replacing the matter velocity in the advection term in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Maxim Dvornikov

{\em Voyager 1} and {\em 2} data reveals that magnetic field fluctuations are compressive and exhibit a Gaussian distribution in the compressed heliosheath plasma, whereas they follow a lognormal distribution in a nearly incompressible…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dastgeer Shaikh

We study the cosmic evolution of the magnetic fields of a large sample of spiral galaxies in a cosmologically representative volume by employing a semi-analytic galaxy formation model and numerical dynamo solver in tandem. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , Carlton M. Baugh , A. Russ Taylor

We investigate the instability due to dynamical axion field near the topological phase transition of insulators. We first point out that the amplitude of dynamical axion field is bounded for magnetic insulators in general, which suppresses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Tatsushi Imaeda , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

A new version of the invariant imbedding theory for the propagation of coupled waves in inhomogeneous media is applied to the mode conversion of high frequency electromagnetic waves into electrostatic modes in cold, magnetized and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee

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

Magnetic fields are widely observed in the Universe in virtually all astrophysical objects, from individual stars to entire galaxies, even in the intergalactic medium, but their specific generation has long been debated. Due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

The MHD instabilities can generate complex field topologies even if the initial field configuration is a very simple one. We consider the stability properties of magnetic configurations containing a toroidal and an axial field. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

We study the evolution of QCD phase transition-generated magnetic fields in freely decaying MHD turbulence of the expanding Universe. We consider a magnetic field generation model that starts from basic non-perturbative QCD theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-18 Alexander G. Tevzadze , Leonard Kisslinger , Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili

Aims: To investigate the relationship between surges and magnetic reconnection during the emergence of small-scale active regions. In particular, to examine how the large-scale geometry of the magnetic field, shaped by different phases of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David MacTaggart , Salvo Guglielmino , Andrew Haynes , Radostin Simitev , Francesca Zuccarello

Violent gravitational interactions can change the morphologies of galaxies and, by means of merging, transform them into elliptical galaxies. We aim to investigate how they affect the evolution of galactic magnetic fields. We selected 16…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Robert T. Drzazga , Krzysztof T. Chyzy , Wojciech Jurusik , Krzysztof Wiorkiewicz

This letter discusses rotating magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) of a thin layer of astrophysical plasma. To describe a thin plasma layer with a free surface in a vertical external magnetic field we use the shallow water ap- proximation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-08 Dmitry Klimachkov , Arakel Petrosyan

The Foldy-Lax (or the point-interaction) approximation of the electromagnetic fields generated by a cluster of small scaled inhomogeneities is derived in the mesoscale regime, i.e. when the minimum distance $\delta$ between the particles is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Ali Bouzekri , Mourad Sini

We review spacetime dynamics in the presence of large-scale electromagnetic fields and then consider the effects of the magnetic component on perturbations to a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe. Using covariant techniques, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Barrow , R. Maartens , C. G. Tsagas

A nonlinear time dependent fluid simulation model is developed that describes the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the presence of collisional and charge exchange interactions of a partially ionized plasma. The partially ionized…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

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