Radiative transfer dynamo effect.

Munirov, Vadim R; Fisch, Nathaniel J · Phys Rev E · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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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.