The magnetized disk-halo transition region of M 51 Issue A&A – Volume 642, October 2020 Article Number A118 – Number of page(s) 21 Section Extragalactic astronomy DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037847 Published online 12 October 2020 – A&A 642, A118 (2020) The magnetized disk-halo transition region of M 51⋆ M. Kierdorf1, S. A. Mao1, R. Beck1, A. Basu2,…
Different types of magnetism All atoms are magnetic, including H2O, wood, air, everything! Diamagnetism appears in all materials and is the tendency of a material to oppose an applied magnetic field, and therefore, to be repelled by a magnetic field Paramagnetic material there are unpaired electrons; an unpaired electron is free to align its…
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7453/meta Abstract The Parker instability, a Rayleigh–Taylor-like instability of thermal gas supported against gravity by magnetic fields and cosmic rays, is thought to be dynamically important for galaxy evolution, possibly promoting molecular cloud formation and the galactic dynamo. In previous work, we examined the effect of three different cosmic-ray transport models on the Parker instability:…