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astro-ph1999
The First Magnetic Fields
George Davies, Lawrence M. Widrow
We demonstrate that the Biermann battery mechanism for the creation of large scale magnetic fields can arise in a simple model protogalaxy. Analytic calculations and numerical simu…
astro-ph1999
Thoughts on galactic magnetism
Kandaswamy Subramanian
Magnetic fields correlated on several kiloparsec scales are seen in spiral galaxies. Their origin could be due to amplification of a small seed field by a turbulent galactic dynamo…