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astro-ph.GA2024
Radio filaments as Z-pinched Galactic center wind
Fan Zhang
In this brief note, we tentatively investigate the possibility that the radio filaments are produced when the Galactic center wind washes over magnetic field structures. The electr…
nlin.CD2024
A dynamical systems perspective on the celestial mechanical contribution to the emergence of life
Fan Zhang
Biological activities are often seen entrained onto the day-night and other celestial mechanical cycles (e.g., seasonal and lunar), but studies on the origin of life have largely n…
astro-ph.CO2024
Gravity-driven magnetogenesis
Fan Zhang
Structure formation heralds the era of deviation of the matter content of the Universe away from thermal equilibrium, so the gravitational contribution to entropy, in the form of W…