Research highlights and influential papers

recent research highlights
      

Distributed Solar Dynamo

  • Solar dynamo may not be located in the tachocline
  • Equatorward migration from negative near-surface shear
  • Non-resistively limited saturation through helicity fluxes
  • Bipolar regions formed locally near the surface
  • Tilt depends just on shear, not on helicity
  • Large-scale fields even without helicity, just shear
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    Brandenburg, A.: 2005, ``The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by near-surface shear,'' Astrophys. J. 625, 539-547 (astro-ph/0502275, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    215 on ADS

          

    Dynamo Review

  • Reviews small scale and large scale dynamos
  • Saturation through magnetic helicity conservation
  • Detailed calculation of transport coefficiens using minimal tau approximation (MTA)
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    Brandenburg, A., & Subramanian, K.: 2005, ``Astrophysical magnetic fields and nonlinear dynamo theory,'' Phys. Rep. 417, 1-209 (astro-ph/0405052, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    676 on ADS

          

    Accretion disc turbulence

  • first simulation showing that turbulence can be driven by the Balbus-Hawley (or magnetorotational) instability by a magnetic field that in turn is generated by this very same turbulence
  • establishes self-consistent value for disc viscosity with Shakura-Sunyaev alpha of about 0.01
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    Brandenburg, A., Nordlund, Å., Stein, R. F., & Torkelsson, U.: 1995, ``Dynamo-generated turbulence and large-scale magnetic fields in a Keplerian shear flow,'' Astrophys. J. 446, 741-754 (ADS, PDF)

    citations
    567 on ADS

          

    Inverse cascade: resistively slow

  • establishes fundamental connection between inverse cascade in hydromagnetic turbulence and alpha effect in dynamo theory
  • unexpected: inverse cascade operates on resistive timescale
  • has to do with magnetic helicity conservation
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    Brandenburg, A.: 2001, ``The inverse cascade and nonlinear alpha-effect in simulations of isotropic helical hydromagnetic turbulence,'' Astrophys. J. 550, 824-840 (astro-ph/0006186, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    336 on ADS

          

    Mixed parity dynamo solutions

  • first simulation showing stable mixed parity solutions of nonlinear dynamo equations
  • relevant for Maunder minima type variations of solar/stellar activity
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    Brandenburg, A., Krause, F., Meinel, R., Moss, D., & Tuominen, I.: 1989, ``The stability of nonlinear dynamos and the limited role of kinematic growth rates,'' Astron. Astrophys. 213, 411-422 (ADS, PDF)

    citations
    154 on ADS

          

    Convective Dynamo Simulations with Overshoot

  • it was previously though that magnetic buoyancy removes magnetic flux before the dynamo has a chance to work
  • we find that downward pumping is at least equally strong
  • the dynamo works in the entire convection zone, but pumping concentrates magnetic flux at the bottom of the convection zone
  • relevant to the sun
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    Nordlund, Å., Brandenburg, A., Jennings, R. L., Rieutord, M., Ruokolainen, J., Stein, R. F., & Tuominen, I.: 1992, ``Dynamo action in stratified convection with overshoot,'' Astrophys. J. 392, 647-692 (ADS, PDF)

    citations
    190 on ADS

    Brandenburg, A., Jennings, R. L., Nordlund, Å., Rieutord, M., Stein, R. F., & Tuominen, I.: 1996, ``Magnetic structures in a dynamo simulation,'' J. Fluid Mech. 306, 325-352 (ADS, PDF)

    citations
    165 on ADS

          

    Galactic Magnetism Review

  • reviews observations and theory
  • has now become standard reference
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    Beck, R., Brandenburg, A., Moss, D., Shukurov, A., & Sokoloff, D.: 1996, ``Galactic Magnetism: Recent Developments and Perspectives,'' Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 34, 155-206 (ADS, PDF)

    citations
    654 on ADS

          

    Early Universe magnetic fields

  • First to point out possibility of inverse cascade in early Universe
  • Magnetic fields from electroweak phase transition otherwise small scale
  • Horizon scale ~3 cm, corresponding to ~AU after cosmological expansion
  • Would become ~kpc with inverse cascade
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    Brandenburg, A., Enqvist, K., & Olesen, P.: 1996, ``Large-scale magnetic fields from hydromagnetic turbulence in the very early universe,'' Phys. Rev. D 54, 1291-1300 (astro-ph/9602031, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    154 on ADS

    Christensson, M., Hindmarsh, M., & Brandenburg, A.: 2001, ``Inverse cascade in decaying 3D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence,'' Phys. Rev. E 64, 056405, 1-6 (astro-ph/0011321, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    99 on ADS

          

    SN-driven turbulence

  • first realistic 3-D simulation of supernova-driven multi-phase interstellar medium
  • find segregation into 2 phases: warm/denser and hot/dilute and gives filling factors
  • demonstrates different rms velocities in warm (~10 km/s) and hot (~40 km/s) components
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    Korpi, M. J., Brandenburg, A., Shukurov, A., Tuominen, I., & Nordlund, Å.: 1999, ``A supernova regulated interstellar medium: simulations of the turbulent multiphase medium,'' Astrophys. J. Lett. 514, L99-L102 (ADS, PDF)

    citations
    132 on ADS

          

    Nonhelical MHD turbulence

  • Demonstrates Rm1/2 scaling of growth rate
  • Establishes a k+3/2 spectrum during kinematic stage
  • Inertial range with k−3/2 magnetic and kinetic energy spectrum during saturated stage
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    Haugen, N. E. L., Brandenburg, A., & Dobler, W.: 2004, ``Simulations of nonhelical hydromagnetic turbulence,'' Phys. Rev. E 70, 016308, 1-14 (astro-ph/0307059, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    179 on ADS

          

    Global simulation of fully convective star

  • 3-D simulation of sphere in a box
  • Demonstrates dynamo action in fully convective star
  • Large scale field dipolar
  • Anti-solar rotation, constant along cylinders
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    Dobler, W., Stix, M., & Brandenburg, A.: 2006, ``Convection and magnetic field generation in fully convective spheres,'' Astrophys. J. 638, 336-347 (astro-ph/0410645, ADS, PDF)

    citations
    129 on ADS




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