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We propose a new self-consistent dynamo mechanism for the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in natural objects. Recent computational studies have described the formation of large-scale vortices (LSVs) in rotating turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-24 Celine Guervilly , David W. Hughes , Chris A. Jones

In this paper we show that the Universe is already strongly magnetized at very early epochs during cosmic evolution. Our calculations are based on the efficient amplification of weak magnetic seed fields, which are unavoidably present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Jacques M. Wagstaff , Robi Banerjee , Dominik Schleicher , Guenter Sigl

In a series of recent papers, it has been proposed that high field magnetic white dwarfs are the result of close binary interaction and merging. Population synthesis calculations have shown that the origin of isolated highly magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Gordon P. Briggs , Lilia Ferrario , Christopher A. Tout , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe

Cosmic magnetic fields may be generated during early cosmic phase transition, such as the QCD- or electroweak- transitions. The magnitude of the remainder of such fields at the present epoch crucially depends on the exponent $n$ of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Karsten Jedamzik , Guenter Sigl

Large-scale magnetic fields in stars and galaxies are thought to arise by mean-field dynamo action due to the combined influence of both helical turbulence and shear. Those systems are also highly conducting and the turbulence therein leads…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Axel Brandenburg

Weak magnetic fields must have existed in the early Universe, as they were sourced by the cross product of electron density and temperature gradients through the Biermann-battery mechanism. In this paper we calculate the magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haimoud

The origin of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is widely thought to be from early Universe processes, like inflation or phase transitions. These magnetic fields evolve via magnetohydrodynamic processes until the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Molly Abramson , Emma Clarke , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Salome Mtchedlidze , Jennifer Schober

The origin of large scale cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery, despite the continuous efforts devoted to that problem. We present a new model of magnetic field generation, based on local charge separation provided by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Mathieu Langer , Jean-Loup Puget , Nabila Aghanim

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in dilaton electromagnetism in inflationary cosmology, taking into account the dilaton's evolution throughout inflation and reheating until it is stabilized with possible entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuharu Bamba , J. Yokoyama

Our theoretical and numerical analysis have suggested that for low-mass main sequences stars (of the spectral classes from M5 to G0) rotating much faster than the Sun, the generated large-scale magnetic field is caused by the mean-field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , N. Safiullin , R. Gershberg , S. Porshnev

We argue that the first stars may have spanned the conventional mass range rather than be identified with the Very Massive Objects (100-1000 solar masses) favoured by numerical simulations. Specifically, we find that magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph Silk , Mathieu Langer

We present new generation mechanisms of magnetic fields in supernova remnant shocks propagating to partially ionized plasmas in the early universe. Upstream plasmas are dissipated at the collisionless shock, but hydrogen atoms are not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-08 Shuhei Kashiwamura , Yutaka Ohira

Magnetic fields have been detected on stars across the H-R diagram and substellar objects either directly by their effect on the formation of spectral lines, or through the activity phenomena they power which can be observed across a large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Morin

A variety of observations impose upper limits at the nano Gauss level on magnetic fields that are coherent on inter-galactic scales while blazar observations indicate a lower bound $\sim 10^{-16}$ Gauss. Such magnetic fields can play an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 Tanmay Vachaspati

There is evidence that cosmic rays were present in galaxies at moderately high redshift. This suggests that magnetic fields were also present. If cosmic rays and magnetic fields must always be close to equipartition, as they are to an order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ellen G. Zweibel

We consider the hypothesis that galactic magnetic fields are primordial. We also discuss the various objections to this hypothesis. We assume that there was a magnetic field present in the galactic plasma before the galaxy formed. After the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Armando M. Howard , Russell M. Kulsrud

Magnetic fields are observed not only in stars, but in galaxies, clusters, and even high redshift Lyman-alpha systems. In principle, these fields could play an important role in structure formation and also affect the anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roy Maartens

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in dilaton electromagnetism in noncommutative inflationary cosmology taking into account the effects of the spacetime uncertainty principle motivated by string theory. We show that it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuharu Bamba , J. Yokoyama

Both observations and modelling of magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar gas of spiral galaxies are well developed but the theory has been confronted with observations for only a handful of individual galaxies. There is now sufficient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Cameron Van Eck , Jo-Anne Brown , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher

(abridged) A detailed examination of the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields between high cosmic temperatures and the present epoch is presented. A simple analytical model matching the results of the 3D MHD simulations allows for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robi Banerjee , Karsten Jedamzik