{"title":"Theory and Observations Put Together","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781139046657.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046657.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120779,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysical Magnetic Fields","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126391814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polarization and Depolarization","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781139046657.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046657.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120779,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysical Magnetic Fields","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133347092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe","authors":"K. Enqvist","doi":"10.1017/9781139046657.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046657.016","url":null,"abstract":"The observed galactic magnetic fields may have a primordial origin. I briefly review the observations, their interpretation in terms of the dynamo theory, and the current limits on cosmological magnetic fields. Several possible mechanisms for generating a primordial magnetic field are then discussed. Turbulence and the evolution of the microscopic fields to macroscopic fields is described in terms of a shell model, which provides an approximation to the full magnetohydrodynamics and indicates the existence of an inverse cascade of magnetic energy. Cosmological seed fields roughly of the order of $10^{-20}$ G at the scale of protogalaxy, as required by the dynamo explanation of galactic magnetic fields, seem rather plausible.","PeriodicalId":120779,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysical Magnetic Fields","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126524260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium","authors":"S. A. Kaplan, S. Pikel’ner","doi":"10.1017/9781139046657.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046657.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120779,"journal":{"name":"Astrophysical Magnetic Fields","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115238380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}