Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-txr5j Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-06T20:22:49.427Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The fate of magnetic fields in colliding galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

Hanna Kotarba ,
Harald Lesch ,
Klaus Dolag  and
Thorsten Naab
Hanna Kotarba
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, Scheinerstrasse 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany email: kotarba@usm.lmu.de
Harald Lesch
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, Scheinerstrasse 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany email: kotarba@usm.lmu.de
Klaus Dolag
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany
Thorsten Naab
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The evolution and amplification of large-scale magnetic fields in galaxies is investigated by means of high resolution simulations of interacting galaxies. The goal of our project is to consider in detail the role of gravitational interaction of galaxies for the fate of magnetic fields. Since the tidal interaction up to galaxy merging is a basic ingredient of cold-dark matter (CDM) structure formation models we think that our simulations will give important clues for the interplay of galactic dynamics and magnetic fields.

Keywords

galaxies: ISMmagnetic fieldsinteractionsmethods: numericalN-body simulations
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics , September 2010 , pp. 376 - 380
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

References

Arshakian, T. G., Beck, R., Krause, M., & Sokoloff, D. 2009, A&A, 494, 21–32Google Scholar
Beck, R. & Hoernes, P. 1996, NATURE, 379, 47–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beck, R. 2009, In: Magnetic Fields in the Universe II: From Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe, ed. Esquivel, A., Franco, J., Garcï-Segura, G., de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M., Lazarian, A., Lizano, S., & Raga, A., RevMexAA, 36, 1–8Google Scholar
Benson, A. J. 2010, Physics Reports, 495, 33–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bernet, M. L., Miniati, F., Lilly, S. J., Kronberg, P. P., & Dessauges-Zavadsky, M. 2008, NATURE, 454, 302–304CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chyży, K. T., Knapik, J., Bomans, D. J., Klein, U., Beck, R., Soida, M., & Urbanik, M. 2003, A&A, 405, 513–524Google Scholar
Chyży, K. T., Bomans, D. J., Krause, M., Beck, R., Soida, M., & Urbanik, M. 2007, A&A, 462, 933–941Google Scholar
Dolag, K. & Stasyszyn, F. 2009, MNRAS, 398, 1678–1697CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dubois, Y. & Teyssier, R. 2010, A&A, 523, A72+Google Scholar
Fletcher, A., Beck, R., Berkhuijsen, E. M., Horellou, C., & Shukurov, A. 2004, In: How Does the Galaxy Work? A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds., ed. Alfaro, E. J., P+xiz, E., Franco, J., ASSL (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 315, 299-+Google Scholar
Hanasz, M., Wóltański, D., & Kowalik, K. 2009, ApJL, 706, 155–159CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hopkins, P. F., Hernquist, L., Cox, T. J., Dutta, S. N. & Rothberg, B. 2008, ApJ, 679, 156–181CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kotarba, H., Lesch, H., Dolag, K., Naab, T., Johansson, P. H., & Stasyszyn, F. A. 2009, MNRAS, 397, 733–747CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kotarba, H., Karl, S. J., Naab, T., Johansson, P. H., Dolag, K., Lesch, H., & Stasyszyn, F. A. 2010a, ApJ, 716, 1438–1452CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kotarba, H., Lesch, H., Dolag, K., Naab, T., Johansson, P. H., Donnert, J., & Stasyszyn, F. A. 2010b, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv1011.5735Google Scholar
Kulsrud, R. M. 1999, ARAA, 37, 37–64CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Naab, T., Jesseit, R., & Burkert, A. 2006, MNRAS, 372, 839–852CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rees, M. J. 1987, QJRAS, 28, 197–206Google Scholar
Schleicher, D. R. G., Banerjee, R., Sur, S., Arshakian, T. G., Klessen, R. S., Beck, R., & Spaans, M. 2010, A&A, 522, A115+Google Scholar
de Souza, R. S. & Opher, R. 2010, PhRvD, 81, 6, 7301Google Scholar
Springel, V. 2005, MNRAS, 364, 1105–1134CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vollmer, B., Soida, M., Chung, A., Beck, R., Urbanik, M., Chyży, K. T., Otmianowska-Mazur, K., & vanGorkom, J. H. Gorkom, J. H. 2010, A&A, 512, 36+Google Scholar
Wang, P. & Abel, T. 2009, ApJ, 696, 96–109CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, S. D. M. & Frenk, C. S. 1991, ApJ, 379, 52–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, S. D. M. & Rees, M. J. 1978, MNRAS, 183, 341–358CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wolfe, A. M., Gawiser, E., & Prochaska, J. X. 2005, ARAA, 43, 861–918CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wolfe, A. M., Jorgenson, R. A., Robishaw, T., Heiles, C., & Prochaska, J. X. 2008, NATURE, 455, 638–640CrossRefGoogle Scholar