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We study the synchrotron radio emission from extra-planar regions of star forming galaxies. We use ideal magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of a rotating Milky Way-type disk galaxy with distributed star formation sites for three star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Aditi Vijayan , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov

Abridged.-- We demonstrate that the radiation emitted by ultrarelativistic electrons in highly nonuniform, small-scale magnetic fields is different from synchrotron radiation if the electron's transverse deflections in these fields are much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mikhail V. Medvedev

The dissipation of turbulent magnetic fields is an appealing scenario to explain the origin of non-thermal particles in high-energy astrophysical sources. However, it has been suggested that the particle distribution may effectively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri E. Lyubarsky

The main observational results from radio continuum and polarization observations about the magnetic field strength and large-scale pattern for face-on and edge-on spiral galaxies are summarized and compared within our sample of galaxies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Marita Krause

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The rate of magnetic field diffusion plays an essential role in several astrophysical plasma processes. It has been demonstrated that the omnipresent turbulence in astrophysical media induces fast magnetic reconnection, which consequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 R. Santos-Lima , G. Guerrero , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

Hot Jupiters can experience mass loss driven by heating from UV radiation from their host stars, and this flow is often controlled by magnetic fields. More specifically, near the planetry surface, the magnetic pressure dominates the ram…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Fred C. Adams , James E. Owen

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be powered by the rotational energy of a millisecond magnetar. I argue that the GRB-driving magnetars lie at the high end of the distribution of magnetic field strengths of magnetars. The field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Dimitrios Giannios

We study a nonlinear quenching of turbulent magnetic diffusion and effective drift velocity of large-scale magnetic field in a developed two-dimensional MHD turbulence at large magnetic Reynolds numbers. We show that transport of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

Outflows play a pivotal role in star formation as one of its most visible markers and a means of transporting mass, momentum, and angular momentum from the infalling gas into the surrounding molecular cloud. Their wide reach (at least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Shantanu Basu , Mahmoud Sharkawi , Masahiro N. Machida

An exact model for magnetized and rotating outflows, underpressured at their axis, is analysed by means of a nonlinear separation of the variables in the two-dimensional governing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations for axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Sauty , E. Trussoni , K. Tsinganos

We calculate the structure and neutron content of neutrino-heated MHD winds driven from the surface of newly-formed magnetars (``proto-magnetars'') and from the midplane of hyper-accreting disks, two of the possible central engines for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert

We study the effects of galaxy formation physics on the magnetization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using the IllustrisTNG simulations. We demonstrate that large-scale regions affected by the outflows from galaxies and clusters contain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andres Aramburo Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Anastasia Sokolenko

Radio quasar sightlines with strong MgII absorption lines display statistically enhanced Faraday Rotation Measures (RM) indicating the presence of additional magneto-active plasma with respect to sightlines free of such absorption. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly

Strong magnetic fields in the cores of stars are expected to significantly modify the behavior of gravity waves: this is likely the origin of suppressed dipole modes observed in many red giants. However, a detailed understanding of how such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Nicholas Z. Rui , Jim Fuller

Generation of magnetic field energy, without mean field generation, is studied. Isotropic mirror-symmetric turbulence of a conducting fluid amplifies the energy of small-scale magnetic perturbations if the magnetic Reynolds number is high,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gruzinov , S. Cowley , R. Sudan

Despite their discovery fifteen years ago, the nature and origin of the Fermi bubbles remain unclear. We here investigate the effect a magnetic field can have on a subsonic breeze outflow emanating from the Galactic centre region. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Olivier Tourmente , Donna Rodgers-Lee , Andrew M. Taylor

Magnetars, the likely sources of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), produce both steady highly relativistic magnetized winds, and occasional ejection events. We demonstrate that the requirement of conservation of the magnetic flux dominates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Maxim Lyutikov

We have tested the ability of driven turbulence to generate magnetic field structure from a weak uniform field using three dimensional numerical simulations of incompressible turbulence. We used a pseudo-spectral code with a numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac

Interstellar magnetic fields are strong: up to 25 muG in spiral arms and 40 muG in nuclear regions. In the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 the average magnetic energy density exceeds that of the thermal gas. Magnetic fields control the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rainer Beck