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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Luiz Santiago Rodrigues, Professor Anvar ShukurovORCiD, Dr Andrew Fletcher
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A framework is introduced for coupling the evolution of galactic magnetic fields sustained by the mean-field dynamo with the formation and evolution of galaxies in cold dark matter cosmology. Estimates of the steady-state strength of the large-scale and turbulent magnetic fields from mean-field and fluctuation dynamo models are used together with galaxy properties predicted by semi-analytic models of galaxy formation for a population of spiral galaxies. We find that the field strength is mostly controlled by the evolving gas content of the galaxies. Thus, because of the differences in the implementation of the star formation law, feedback from supernovae and ram-pressure stripping, each of the galaxy formation models considered predicts a distribution of field strengths with unique features. The most prominent of them is the difference in typical magnetic fields strengths obtained for the satellite and central galaxy populations as well as the typical strength of the large-scale magnetic field in galaxies of different mass.
Author(s): Rodrigues LFS, Shukurov A, Fletcher A, Baugh CM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2015
Volume: 450
Issue: 4
Pages: 3472-3489
Online publication date: 18/05/2015
Acceptance date: 09/04/2015
ISSN (print): 0035-8711
ISSN (electronic): 1365-2966
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv816
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv816
Notes: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00690
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