Magnetic fields in the first galaxies: Dynamo amplification and limits from reionization

2011/10/13 by Schleicher, Dominik R. G., Schober, Jennifer, Federrath, Christoph +3
#Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.2880

Abstract

We discuss the amplification of magnetic fields by the small-scale dynamo, a process that could efficiently produce strong magnetic fields in the first galaxies. In addition, we derive constraints on the primordial field strength from the epoch of reionization.

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