Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-07-28
Astrophysical Journal Letters 706 (2009) L155-L159
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
11 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/L155
We report first results of first global galactic-scale CR-MHD simulations of cosmic-ray-driven dynamo. We investigate the dynamics of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM), which is dynamically coupled with the cosmic-ray (CR) gas. We assume that exploding stars deposit small-scale, randomly oriented, dipolar magnetic fields into the differentially rotating ISM, together with a portion of cosmic rays, accelerated in supernova shocks. We conduct numerical simulations with the aid of a new parallel MHD code PIERNIK. We find that the initial magnetization of galactic disks by exploding magnetized stars forms a favourable conditions for the cosmic-ray-driven dynamo. We demonstrate that dipolar magnetic fields supplied on small SN-remnant scales, can be amplified exponentially, by the CR-driven dynamo, to the present equipartition values, and transformed simultaneously to large galactic-scales. The resulting magnetic field structure in an evolved galaxy appears spiral in the face-on view and reveals the so called X-shaped structure in the edge-on view.
Hanasz Michał
Kowalik Kacper
Wóltański Dominik
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