WINTER SCHOOL: Introduction to galactic astrophysics

by Prof. Anvar Shukurov (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, U.K.)

Tuesday 12 Jan 2010, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Stockholm

Svedberg (FD5)

Winter School on dynamos (11-22 January 2010)

1. Brief introduction to galactic astrophysics, with emphasis on
   interstellar gas, as required for the exposition of the properties,
   role and origin of magnetic fields at galactic scales.
2. Methods for the observational studies of interstellar and intergalactic
   magnetic fields will be reviewed, together with their results. It will
   be argued that dynamo action is required to maintain galactic magnetic
   fields, and simple dynamo models will be developed.
3. Analytical perturbation solution for the mean-field disc dynamos,
   comparison with numerical solutions.
4. Brief review of small-scale turbulent dynamos in application to
   galaxy clusters.

Slides Dynamos_galactic_scales_1x.pdf

streaming video mms://videos.nordita.org/seminars/2010/2010-01-12-Shukurov1.wmv