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Cosmological magnetic field seeds produced by the Weibel instabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2011

M. Lazar ,
R. Schlickeiser  and
T. Skoda
M. Lazar*
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
R. Schlickeiser
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
T. Skoda
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
*
*email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The source of the cosmological magnetic field is still unknown because the widely invoked dynamo processes are only able to regenerate and amplify some initial magnetic field seeds. In the hot and highly ionized intergalactic matter such magnetic field seeds can easily be produced by the (electro-)magnetic instabilities of Weibel type. Here we discuss suplementary mechanisms that can make these Weibel created fields to evolve at large scales presently observed in galaxies and clusters and can also enhance these magnetic field seeds after the dissipation.

Keywords

cosmology: large-scale structure of universeplasmasinstabilitiesmagnetic fields
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S271: Astrophysical Dynamics: From Stars to Galaxies , June 2010 , pp. 387 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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