Evolution of magnetic fields at high redshift

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006an....327..505z&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.327, Issue 5/6, p.505

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Magnetic Fields, Cosmology: Miscellaneous, Turbulence

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The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is a cosmology problem. The evolution of the field is a plasma physics problem. I review these problems and focus on magnetogenesis in accretion disks, specifically, the transition from the Biermann battery, which creates seed fields, to amplification by turbulence driven by magnetorotational instability. In collisional disks, there is a gap between the fieldstrength characteristic of the battery and the fieldstrength necessary to sustain magnetorotational instability, but in collisionless disks the transition occurs at low fieldstrength. Because collisionless disks are generally hot, and have short dynamical times, they are likely to be small. Thus, in the battery scenario, magnetic fields on large scales were built from fields created in many small sources. Simple estimates based on turbulent diffusion suggest that galaxies and the cores of galaxy clusters can be magnetized in this way, but not the intergalactic medium at large. The problem of creating a large-scale field remains unsolved.

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