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The maximum magnetic field strength generated by Weibel-type plasma instabilities is estimated for typical conditions in the interstellar medium. The relevant kinetic dispersion relations are evaluated by conducting a parameter study both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 R. C. Tautz , J. Triptow

Magnetic fields play an important role in producing and modifying the photospheric chemical peculiarities of intermediate-mass main sequence stars. This article discusses the basic theory and methods of measurement used to detect and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Wade

We seek the conditions for a {\it steady} mean field galactic dynamo. The parameter set is reduced to those appearing in the $\alpha^2$ and $\alpha/\omega$ dynamo, namely velocity amplitudes, and the ratio of sub-scale helicity to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 R. N. Henriksen

Galactic dynamo models have generally relied on input parameters that are very challenging to constrain. We address this problem by developing a model that uses observable quantities as input: the galaxy rotation curve, the surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-04 Luke Chamandy , Rion Glenn Nazareth , Gayathri Santhosh

The intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) in cosmic voids can be indirectly probed through its effect on electromagnetic cascades initiated by a source of TeV gamma-rays, such as active galactic nuclei (AGN). AGN that are sufficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-03 Timothy C. Arlen , Vladimir V. Vassiliev , Thomas Weisgarber , Scott P. Wakely , S. Yusef Shafi

Intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) can cause the appearance of halos around the gamma-ray images of distant objects because an electromagnetic cascade initiated by a high-energy gamma-ray interaction with the photon background is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Shin'ichiro Ando , Alexander Kusenko

We present semi-analytical models for magnetisation of the void inter-galactic medium (IGM) by outflows from void galaxies. The number density of dark matter haloes in an under-dense region (i.e., void) is obtained using the excursion set…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-18 Agniva Roychowdhury , Saumyadip Samui

The Interstellar Medium (ISM) is a complex, multi-phase system, where the history of the stars occurs. The processes of birth and death of stars are strongly coupled to the dynamics of the ISM. The observed chaotic and diffusive motions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves

Spiral shocks are potentially a major source of turbulence in the interstellar medium. To address this problem quantitatively, we use numerical simulations to investigate gas flow across spiral arms in vertically stratified,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Based on multi-frequency radio polarization survey datasets, we investigate the spectral characteristics of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) using the polarization frequency analysis (PFA) method, referred to as polarization variance.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Ya-Wen Xiao , Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian

Galaxies are thought to grow through accretion; as less massive galaxies are disrupted and merge over time, their debris results in diffuse, clumpy stellar halos enveloping the central galaxy. Here we present a study of the variation in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Allison Merritt , Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham , Jielai Zhang

Recent studies suggest that pulsars could be strong sources of TeV muon neutrinos provided positive ions are accelerated by pulsar polar caps to PeV energies. In such a situation muon neutrinos are produced through the delta resonance in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bhadra , R. K. Dey

The values of electrical conductivity of plasma of stars with a magnetic field or moving in the magnetic field of the other component in a binary system could be of significant interest, since they are useful for the study of thermal…

We examine the constraints imposed by Faraday rotation measures of extragalactic point sources on the structure of the magnetic field in the halo of our Galaxy. Guided by radio polarization observations of external spiral galaxies, we look…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Philippe Terral , Katia Ferriere

Extended $\gamma$-ray emission has been observed around several nearby pulsars and is commonly interpreted as inverse-Compton radiation produced by relativistic electrons and positrons diffusing in the surrounding interstellar medium. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Qian Zhong

The Tayler instability (TI) of toroidal magnetic fields is a candidate mechanism for driving turbulence, angular momentum (AM) transport, and dynamo action in stellar radiative zones. Recently \cite{Skoutnev_2024} revisited the linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Valentin A. Skoutnev , Andrei M. Beloborodov

The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) represent an interesting type of peculiar systems in which the outer matter is rotating in the plane which is roughly perpendicular to the disk of the main galaxy. Despite the long lasting study of the PRGs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Moiseev , S. Khoperskov , A. Khoperskov , K. Smirnova , A. Smirnova , A. Saburova , V. Reshetnikov

The role of turbulence in various astrophysical settings is reviewed. Among the differences to laboratory and atmospheric turbulence we highlight the ubiquitous presence of magnetic fields that are generally produced and maintained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Axel Brandenburg , Aake Nordlund

Most population studies of pulsars have hitherto focused on the disc of the Galaxy, the Galactic centre, globular clusters, and nearby galaxies. It is expected that pulsars, by virtue of their natal kicks, are also to be found in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Kaustubh Rajwade , Jayanth Chennamangalam , Duncan Lorimer , Aris Karastergiou

The disciplines of asteroseismology and extrasolar planet science overlap methodically in the branch of high-precision photometric time series observations. Light curves are, amongst others, useful to measure intrinsic stellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 Sonja Schuh