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Dynamo Generation of Galactic Magnetic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Karl Johan Donner
Karl Johan Donner*
Affiliation:
Observatory and Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Helsinki Tähtitorninmäki, SF-00130 Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

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I give some results of calculations of the magnetic fields generated by dynamo processes in galaxy models consisting of a turbulent disc embedded in a low-conductivity halo. The field configuration is found to be strongly dependent on the turbulent structure of the disc.

Type
4. Magnetohydrodynamics of Galactic Magnetic Fields
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 117 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

References

Donner, K.J. and Brandenburg, A. (1989) ‘Magnetic Field Structure in Differentially Rotating Discs’, Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., (in press).Google Scholar