Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
24 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PASJ
Scientific paper
Origin of the magnetic field ubiquitous in the Universe is studied based on the Biermann mechanism, which is expected to work in the non-barotropic region. We perform a series of two-dimensional MHD simulations of the first generation supernova remnant (SNR) expanding in the inhomogeneous interstellar matter (ISM) and study the Biermann mechanism working in the interior of the SNR. Especially, we pay attention to the relaxation process of electron and ion temperatures via the Coulomb interaction. In the early SNR in which the electron temperature is much lower than the ion temperature, the Biermann mechanism is ineffective, since the gradient of electron pressure is small. Magnetic fields begin to be generated just behind the shock front when the electron temperature is sufficiently relaxed. Assuming the explosion energy of 10^52 erg, the total magnetic energy generated reaches about 10^26 erg and does not depend strongly on the parameters of either SNR or ISM. Analytic expression to estimate the magnetic total energy is presented and it is shown this agrees well with our numerical results. Finally we evaluate the expected amplitude of magnetic fields in protogalaxies as ~10^-19 G, which is sufficient for seed fields of the observed galactic magnetic fields.
Hanayama Hidekazu
Takahashi Keitaro
Tomisaka Kohji
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