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磁化宇宙

Magnetizing the universe

Kandaswamy Subramanian

摘要:

宇宙磁性的起源是天体物理学中的一个基本问题。我们在这里回顾一些想法如何大规模磁场在宇宙中,特别是在星系和星系团可能会出现。流行的范例涉及种子磁场的产生,随后是种子场的湍流发电机放大。我们首先概述了各种种子场生成机制,包括比尔曼电池。一般来说,这些场比观测到的场小得多,因此它们需要通过发电机作用进一步放大。波动发电机背后的基本思想,适用于集群磁性和平均场螺旋发电机适用于盘星系,概述。发电机范式的主要困难被认为是。特别重要的是要了解发电机的非线性饱和,以及产生的场是否在大尺度上足够相干,以解释星系和星系团中观察到的场。同时,原始场的另一种可能性缺乏坚实的理论支持,但可以产生非常有趣的观测结果。

英文摘要:

The origin of cosmic magnetism is an issue of fundamental importance in astrophysics. We review here some of the ideas of how large scale magnetic fields in the universe, particularly in galaxies and galaxy clusters could arise. The popular paradigm involves the generation of a seed magnetic field followed by turbulent dynamo amplification of the seed field. We first outline various seed field generation mechanisms including Biermann batteries. These in general give a field much smaller than the observed field and so they require further amplification by dynamo action. The basic idea behind fluctuation dynamos, as applied to cluster magnetism and the mean-field helical dynamo as applied to disk galaxies, are outlined. Major difficulties with the dynamo paradigm are considered. It is particularly important to understand the nonlinear saturation of dynamos, and whether the fields produced are coherent enough on large-scales to explain the observed fields in galaxies and clusters. At the same time the alternative possibility of a primordial field lacks firm theoretical support but can have very interesting observational consequences.

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