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The fate of magnetic fields in colliding galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

Hanna Kotarba
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, Scheinerstrasse 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany email: [email protected]
Harald Lesch
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, Scheinerstrasse 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany email: [email protected]
Klaus Dolag
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany
Thorsten Naab
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany
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The evolution and amplification of large-scale magnetic fields in galaxies is investigated by means of high resolution simulations of interacting galaxies. The goal of our project is to consider in detail the role of gravitational interaction of galaxies for the fate of magnetic fields. Since the tidal interaction up to galaxy merging is a basic ingredient of cold-dark matter (CDM) structure formation models we think that our simulations will give important clues for the interplay of galactic dynamics and magnetic fields.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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