Strong Magnetic Fields

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Earth: 5 x 10^-5 T

Sun: 5 x 10^-3 T nasa web site ref: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm

Refrigerator magnet: 5 x 10^-3 T

Neodynium rare-earth magnet: 1 T

Typical Hospital MRI: 2-3 T

Functional MRI: 4 T

Experimental Human MRI: 8.4 T [REF]

Experimental Animal MRI: 11 - 20 T [REF]

Largest continuous man-made magnet: 45 T [Ref FSU magnet lab}

Neutron Stars: 10^8 T [Kouveliotou]

Fields above 10^5 T squeeze elecron orbitals in to cigar shapes

Magnetars: 10^11 T [Kouveliotou]

Upper Limit: 10^13 T "No known objects in the universe can generate and maintain fields stronger than this level." [Kouveliotou]

Refs:

Kouveliotou, C., Duncan, R. C. Thompson, C. "Magnetars", Scientific American, Feb. 2003 http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/sciam.pdf

link to Duncan's website: solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html