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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 B05×108B_0 \simeq 5 \times 10^{-8} G, (b) the absence of this signal from the present data gives an upper bound B0\la3×108B_0 \la 3 \times 10^{-8} G, (c) the future data can probe the magnetic fields of 108\simeq 10^{-8} G. A comparison with other constraints on the present magnetic field shows that they are marginally compatible.However if the magenetic fields corresponding to B0108B_0 \simeq 10^{-8} G existed at the last scattering surface they will cause unacceptably large CMBR anisotropies.

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@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}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS