3-DIMENSIONAL Particle-In Simulations of Spiral Galaxies
Abstract
The advent of 3D electromagnetic, and fully relativistic particle simulations allows a detailed study of a magnetized plasma galaxy model. When two such models are simulated, an interaction yielding results resembling observational data from double radio sources, including the emission of synchrotron radiation, are obtained. Simulation derived morphologies, radiation intensities, frequency spectra and isophote patterns are produced by the model which can be directly compared to observational data. Long-time simulation runs (of about 10 to the 9th years) show the evolution of barred spiral galaxies with large-scale bisymmetric magnetic field distributions having 100-micro-G field strengths.
- Publication:
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Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990IAUS..140..143P
- Keywords:
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- Interstellar Magnetic Fields;
- Particle In Cell Technique;
- Spiral Galaxies;
- Three Dimensional Models;
- Barred Galaxies;
- Field Aligned Currents;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Magnetic Flux;
- Relativistic Effects;
- Synchrotron Radiation;
- Astrophysics