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CMB anisotropies generated by a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields with non-zero helicity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-10-15 v2

Abstract

We consider the impact of a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields with non-vanishing helicity on CMB anisotropies in temperature and polarization. We compute the exact expressions for the scalar, vector and tensor part of the energy-momentum tensor including the helical contribution, by assuming a power-law dependence for the spectra and a comoving cutoff which mimics the damping due to viscosity. We also compute the parity-odd correlator between the helical and non-helical contribution which generate the TB and EB cross-correlation in the CMB pattern. We finally show the impact of including the helical term on the power spectra of CMB anisotropies up to multipoles with ell ~ O(10^3)$.

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@article{arxiv.1412.1836,
  title  = {CMB anisotropies generated by a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields with non-zero helicity},
  author = {Mario Ballardini and Fabio Finelli and Daniela Paoletti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1836},
  year   = {2015}
}

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25 pages, 30 figures