Astrophysical Magnetic Fields

Anvar Shukurov is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at Newcastle University, UK. He co-authored Magnetic Fields of Galaxies, a book that has largely defined the subject. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the London Mathematical Society and International Astronomical Union. Kandaswamy Subramanian is a Distinguished Professor at IUCAA, Pune. His research encompasses a wide spectrum of astrophysics, including impactful work on cosmic magnetism. He has received the B. M. Birla Science Prize for Physics, and is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.

• Preface. 1. Introduction; 2. Elements of magnetohydrodynamics; 3. Observational signatures of magnetic fields; 4. Polarization and depolarization; 5. The concept of hydromagnetic dynamo; 6. The fluctuation dynamo; 7. The mean-field dynamo; 8. The fluctuation and mean-field dynamos unified; 9. Seed magnetic fields; 10. Interstellar and intergalactic medium; 11. Kinematic dynamos in galaxies; 12. Non-linear mean-field galactic dynamos; 13. Theory and observations put together; 14. Magnetohydrodyanmics of galaxy clusters; 15. Magnetic fields in the early universe; 16. Signatures of primordial magnetic fields; References; Index.