Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
The advent of 3-dimensional, electromagnetic, and fully relativistic particle simulations allows a detailed study of a magnetized plasma galaxy model. When two such models are simulated, an interaction yielding results resembling observational data from double radio sources, including the emission of synchrotron radiation, are obtained. Simulation derived morphologies, radiation intensities, frequency spectra and isophote patterns are produced by the model which can be directly compared to observational data. Long time simulation runs (~109 years) show the evolution of barred spiral galaxies with large scale bisymmetric magnetic field distributions having 100μG field strengths.