Magnetic fields in collapsing clouds (IMAGE)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Magnetic fields in collapsing clouds

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Lower panel shows a collapsing plasma cloud with uniform magnetic field (red).Top Right: Compression alone amplifies the field. Bottom Right: Collapse-driven turbulence accelerates dynamo amplification (also generating a horizontal component (blue)), producing magnetic fields stronger than compression alone.

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Pallavi Bhat, Anvar Shukurov, Muhammed Irshad and Kandaswamy Subramanian. NASA; SOFIA; HAWC+; A. S. Borlaff/NASA; JPL-Caltech; ESA; Hubble.

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