Large Scale Magnetic Fields: Galaxy Two-Point correlation function
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We study the effect of large scale tangled magnetic fields on the galaxy two-point correlation function in the redshift space. We show that (a) the magnetic field effects can be comparable the gravity-induced clustering for present magnetic field strength G, (b) the absence of this signal from the present data gives an upper bound G, (c) the future data can probe the magnetic fields of G. A comparison with other constraints on the present magnetic field shows that they are marginally compatible.However if the magenetic fields corresponding to G existed at the last scattering surface they will cause unacceptably large CMBR anisotropies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0303523,
title = {Large Scale Magnetic Fields: Galaxy Two-Point correlation function},
author = {Shiv K. Sethi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0303523},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS