Research Interests

• Origin and Impact of Magnetic Fields in the Universe
• Production (dynamo) of magnetic fields in Active Galactic Nuclei
• Formation and transport of large scale force-free helix/jets
• Dissipation of magnetic field energy
• Galaxy cluster magnetic fields.

• Stirling A. Colgate, Hui Li, Vladimir Pariev (2001) "The origin of the magnetic fields of the universe: The plasma astrophysics of the Free Energy of the Universe", Phys. Plasmas, 8 , 2425. [ download pdf ]
• Li, H., Lovelace, R.V.E., Finn, J.M., and Colgate, S.A. "Magnetic Helix Formation Driven by Keplerian Disk Rotation in an External Plasma Pressure --- The Initial Expansion Stage" , ApJ, 561, 915. [download pdf ]
• Kronberg, P., Quentin, D., Li, H. and Colgate, S.A. (2001) "Magnetic Energy of the Intergalactic Medium from Galactic Black Holes" , ApJ, 560, 178. [ download pdf ] 

• Life Cycles of Active Galaxies
  

• Liquid Sodium Dynamo Experiment , University of New Mexico
  
• Theoretical Astrophysics Division , T-6, LANL
• Plasma Theory, T-15, LANL
• Renyue Cen's Website , Princeton