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On the origins of galaxies, galactic angular momenta, and galactic magnetic fields
Abstract
It is shown that if one assumes the existence of a disordered cosmic magnetic field at recombination, then, provided the field varies on a comoving scale corresponding to a typical galactic mass, one can account for the existence of galaxies, galactic angular momenta, and galactic magnetic fields. The theory predicts the existence of a present-day intergalactic magnetic field of no more than about 1 billionth of a gauss varying on a characteristic length scale of the order of 1 Mpc.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wasserman, I.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 1978-09
- Volume
- 224
- Pages
- 337
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2046089052
- Cited by
- 178
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 2.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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