Small-scale dynamo action during the formation of the first stars and galaxies - I. The ideal MHD limit
Small-scale dynamo action during the formation of the first stars and galaxies - I. The ideal MHD limit
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第一批恒星和星系形成过程中的小规模发电机作用 - I 理想 MHD 极限
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201015184
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
Arshakian
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作者:
Schleicher;D. R. G;Banerjee;Arshakian
We explore the amplification of magnetic seeds during the formation of the first stars and galaxies. During gravitational collapse, turbulence is created from accretion shocks, which may act to amplify weak magnetic fields in the protostellar cloud. Numerical simulations showed that such turbulence is sub-sonic in the first star-forming minihalos, and highly supersonic in the first galaxies with virial temperatures larger than 104K. We investigate the magnetic field amplification during the collapse both for Kolmogorov and Burgers-type turbulence with a semi-analytic model that incorporates the effects of gravitational compression and small-scale dynamo amplification. We find that the magnetic field may be substantially amplified before the formation of a disk. On scales of 1 / 10 of the Jeans length, saturation occurs after ~ 108yr. Although the saturation behaviour of the small-scale dynamo is still somewhat uncertain, we expect a saturation field strength of the order ~ 10-7n0.5G in the first star-forming halos, withnthe number density in cgs units. In the first galaxies with higher turbulent velocities, the magnetic field strength may be increased by an order of magnitude, and saturation may occur after 106− 107yr. In the Kolmogorov case, the magnetic field strength on the integral scale (i.e. the scale with most magnetic power) is higher due to the characteristic power-law indices, but the difference is less than a factor of 2 in the saturated phase. Our results thus indicate that the precise scaling of the turbulent velocity with length scale is of minor importance. They further imply that magnetic fields will be significantly enhanced before the formation of a protostellar disk, where they may change the fragmentation properties of the gas and the accretion rate.
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