Radiative transfer dynamo effect
arXiv:1709.07144 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.95.013205
Abstract
Magnetic fields in rotating and radiating astrophysical plasma can be produced due to a radiative interaction between plasma layers moving relative to each other. The efficiency of current drive, and with it the associated dynamo effect, is considered in a number of limits. It is shown here, however, that predictions for these generated magnetic fields can be significantly higher when kinetic effects, previously neglected, are taken into account.
6 pages, 4 figures, published in Physical Review E