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CMB Anisotropy Due to Tangled magnetic fields in re-ionized models

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

Primordial tangled cosmological Magnetic Fields source rotational velocity perturbations of the baryon fluid, even in the post-recombination universe. These vortical modes inturn leave a characteristic imprint on the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), if the CMB photons can be re-scatterred after recombination. Observations from WMAP indicate that the Universe underwent a relatively early re-ionization (zri15z_{ri} \sim 15), which does indeed lead to a significant optical depth for re-scattering of CMB photons after the re-ionization epoch. We compute the resulting additional temperature anisotropies, induced by primordial magnetic fields in the post-recombination universe. We show that in models with early re-ionization, a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of tangled magnetic fields which redshift to a present value of B03×109B_0 \sim 3 \times 10^{-9} Gauss, produce vector mode perturbations which in turn induce additional temperature anisotropy of about 0.3 to 0.4 μ \muK over very small angular scales, with l l upto 10000\sim 10000 or so.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504007,
  title  = {CMB Anisotropy Due to Tangled magnetic fields in re-ionized models},
  author = {T. R. Seshadri and Kandaswamy Subramanian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504007},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages. Contains one figure. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D