Batchelor, Saffman, and Kazantsev spectra in galactic small-scale dynamos

A Brandenburg, H Zhou… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The magnetic fields in galaxy clusters and probably also in the interstellar medium are
believed to be generated by a small-scale dynamo. Theoretically, during its kinematic stage …

The turbulent stress spectrum in the inertial and subinertial ranges

A Brandenburg, S Boldyrev - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
For velocity and magnetic fields, the turbulent pressure and, more generally, the squared
fields such as the components of the turbulent stress tensor, play important roles in …

Obtaining the Strength of the Magnetic Field from E-and B-Modes of Dust Polarization

J Cho - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform numerical simulations of supersonic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence
and calculate Fourier power spectra of E-and B-modes arising from dust polarization. We …

The effect of cosmic variance on the characteristics of dust polarization power spectra

V Pelgrims, E Ntormousi, K Tassis - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
In the context of cosmic microwave background polarization studies and the characterization
of the Galactic foregrounds, the power spectrum analysis of the thermal dust polarization sky …

Link between E–B polarization modes and gas column density from interstellar dust emission

A Bracco, T Ghosh, F Boulanger, J Aumont - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. The analysis of the Planck polarization E and B mode power spectra of interstellar
dust emission at 353 GHz recently raised new questions concerning the impact of Galactic …

A global two-scale helicity proxy from π-ambiguous solar magnetic fields

A Brandenburg - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
If the α effect plays a role in the generation of the Sun's magnetic field, the field should show
evidence of magnetic helicity of opposite signs at large and small length scales. Measuring …

On statistical signatures of ISM turbulence in dust polarization maps

KW Ho, KH Yuen, R Flauger, AG Kritsuk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13244, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present results from a high-resolution interstellar turbulence simulation and show that it
closely reproduces recent $ Planck $ measurements. Our model captures the scaling of …

Ambipolar diffusion in large Prandtl number turbulence

A Brandenburg - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the effects of ambipolar diffusion (AD) on hydromagnetic turbulence. We consider
the regime of large magnetic Prandtl number, relevant to the interstellar medium. In most of …

Helicity proxies from linear polarisation of solar active regions

A Prabhu, A Brandenburg, MJ Käpylä… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The α effect is believed to play a key role in the generation of the solar magnetic
field. A fundamental test for its significance in the solar dynamo is to look for magnetic …

Hemispheric handedness in the Galactic synchrotron polarization foreground

A Brandenburg, M Brüggen - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The large-scale magnetic field of the Milky Way is thought to be created by an αΩ dynamo,
which implies that it should have opposite handedness north and south of the Galactic …