Virtual Nordic Dynamo Seminar

Are there dynamos in cosmological large-scale structure?

by Federico Stasyszyn (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)

Europe/Stockholm
Description

https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/940229961

Current theories about the evolution of magnetic fields in the Universe suggest that the seed magnetic fields were generated during early stages, and then were amplified and sustained by astrophysical processes such as galactic outflows and other dynamo effects. When analysing cosmological large-scale structures, the magnitude and morphology of large-scale magnetic fields in them is still not clear. I will present some results connecting large-scale structure properties and dynamo models, with the goal to put constraints on the possible growth by the hierarchical structures (cosmic voids and filaments in particular) and internal astrophysical processes. To do so, we analyze cosmological simulations, identifying structures and their mean-flow properties, to be able to re-simulate them to confirm or develop analytical models that can be used to make predictions to observations.