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The nature and origin of turbulence and magnetic fields in the intergalactic space are important problems that are yet to be understood. We propose a scenario in which turbulent flow motions are induced via the cascade of the vorticity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Jungyeon Cho , Santabrata Das

We study the generation of magnetic fields during preheating within an scenario of hybrid inflation at the electroweak (EW) scale. We find that the non-perturbative and strongly out-of-equilibrium process of magnetic field production occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andres Diaz-Gil , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Margarita Garcia Perez , Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo

This review concerns the origin and the possible effects of magnetic fields in the early Universe. We start by providing to the reader with a short overview of the current state of art of observations of cosmic magnetic fields. We then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Dario Grasso , H. R. Rubinstein

Large-scale magnetic fields in the nuclear regions of protogalaxies can promote the formation and early growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) by direct collapse and magnetically boosted accretion. Turbulence associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Mitchell C. Begelman , Joseph Silk

We study the generation of magnetic field in the primordial plasma of the standard model (SM) particles at temperature $T>80$~TeV much higher than the electroweak scale. It is assumed that there is an excess number of right-handed electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arun Kumar Pandey

$\gamma$-ray emission of blazars infer the presence of large-scale magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium, but their origin remains a mystery. Using recent data from MAGIC, H.E.S.S. and $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT, we investigate whether the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 María Olalla Olea-Romacho

Magnetic fields are known to play a crucial role in the star formation process, particularly in the formation of jets and outflows from protostellar discs. The magnetic field structure in star forming regions is not always uniform and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Isabella A. Gerrard , Christoph Federrath , Rajika Kuruwita

Recent cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have suggested that the first stars in the universe often form as binary or multiple systems. However, previous studies typically overlooked the potential influence of magnetic fields during this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

A new mechanism for the evolution of primordial magnetic fields is described and analysed. The field evolution is followed from the time of its creation until the epoch of structure and galaxy formation. The mechanism takes into account the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Dimopoulos , A. C. Davis

Most early Universe scenarios predict negligible magnetic fields on cosmological scales if they are unprocessed during subsequent expansion of the Universe. We present a new numerical treatment of the evolution of primordial fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guenter Sigl

The first galaxies form due to gravitational collapse of primordial halos. During this collapse, weak magnetic seed fields get amplified exponentially by the small-scale dynamo - a process converting kinetic energy from turbulence into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jennifer Schober , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Ralf S. Klessen , Christoph Federrath , Stefano Bovino , Simon Glover , Robi Banerjee

Magnetic fields appear wherever plasma and currents can be found. As such, they thread through all scales in Nature. It is natural, therefore, to suppose that magnetic fields might have been formed within the high temperature environments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-16 Dai G. Yamazaki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathew , Kiyotomo Ichiki

We derive the minimal seed magnetic field which unavoidably arises in the radiation and matter eras, prior to recombination, by the rotational velocity of ions and electrons, gravitationally induced by the non-linear evolution of primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Matarrese , S. Mollerach , A. Notari , A. Riotto

There are at present more then 30 theories about the origin of cosmic magnetic fields at galactic and intergalactic scales. Most of them rely on concepts of elementary particle physics, like phase transitions in the early Universe, string…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Battaner , H. Lesch

We show that coherent magnetic field is generated spontaneously when a large domain wall is created in the early universe. It is caused by two dimensional massless fermions bounded to the domain wall soliton. We point out that the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Aiichi Iwazaki

Large-scale magnetic fields are observed today to be coherent on galactic scales. While there exists an explanation for their amplification and their specific configuration in spiral galaxies -- the dynamo mechanism -- a satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 Rhiannon Gwyn , Stephon Alexander , Robert H. Brandenberger , Keshav Dasgupta

We consider the possibility of generation of the seeds of primordial magnetic field on inflation and show that the effect of the back reaction of this field can be very important. Assuming that back reaction does not spoil inflation we find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Vittoria Demozzi , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Hector Rubinstein

The protostellar jets driven by the formation of the first stars are studied by using MHD nested grid simulations. Starting from a slowly rotating spherical cloud of 5.1 times 10^4 Msun permeated by a uniform magnetic field, we follow the…

As one of the prime contributors to the interstellar medium energy budget, magnetic fields naturally play a part in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Galactic magnetic fields can originate from strong primordial magnetic fields provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt , Carlos Gómez-Guijarro

The magnetic fields of spiral galaxies are so strong that they cannot be primordial. Their typical values are over one billion times higher than any value predicted for the early Universe. Explaining this immense growth and incorporating it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Evangelia Ntormousi , Konstantinos Tassis , Fabio Del Sordo , Francesca Fragkoudi , Rüdiger Pakmor