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Primordial magnetic fields lead to non-Gaussian signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) even at the lowest order, as magnetic stresses, and the temperature anisotropy they induce, depend quadratically on the magnetic field. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-03 T. R. Seshadri , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Faraday Rotation (FR) of CMB polarization, as measured through mode-coupling correlations of E and B modes, can be a promising probe of a stochastic primordial magnetic field (PMF). While the existence of a PMF is still hypothetical, there…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-02 Soma De , Levon Pogosian , Tanmay Vachaspati

We constrain a stochastic background of primordial magnetic field (PMF) by its contribution to the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. We parametrize such stochastic background by a power-law spectrum with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli

The magneto-hydrodynamic decay of primordial magnetic fields can distort the black-body spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by draining magnetic energy into thermal plasmas and photons. The current limits on CMB distortion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Fumio Uchida , Kohei Kamada , Hiroyuki Tashiro

The aim of this thesis is to study the effects on the CMB anisotropy due to primordial magnetic fields and to analyze some favorable scenarios of magnetogenesis constrained by those signatures, including limits on the amplitude of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-12 Hector J. Hortua

We present the constraints on the amplitude of magnetic fields generated prior to the recombination using CMB temperature and polarization anisotropy data from Planck 2018 release, alone and in combination with those from BICEP2/Keck array…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli

Using a set of cosmological hydro-dynamical simulations, we constrained the properties of primordial magnetic fields by studying their impact on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. We performed a large set of simulations (8 dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Mahsa Sanati , Yves Revaz , Jennifer Schober , Kerstin E. Kunze , Pascale Jablonka

We present the first cosmological simulations of primordial magnetic fields derived from the constraints by the Cosmic Microwave Background observations, based on the fields' gravitational effect on cosmological perturbations. We evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 F. Vazza , D. Paoletti , S. Banfi , F. Finelli , C. Gheller , S. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen

The cosmological magnetic field is one of the important physical quantities which affect strongly the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum. Recent CMB observations have been extended to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. G. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino

In this talk I present a short review of primordial magnetic helicity effects on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies. These effects allow us to test for cosmological magnetic helicity, however, very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tina Kahniashvili

We have studied ways in which helical primordial magnetic fields could be constrained by measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). If there were helical flows in the primordial plasma at the time of recombination,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Levon Pogosian , Tanmay Vachaspati , Serge Winitzki

I describe the imprint of primordial magnetic fields on the CMB. I show that these are observable only if the field amplitude is of the order of $B\gsim 10^{-9}G$ on Mpc scale. I further argue that such fields are strongly constrained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ruth Durrer

Primordial magnetic fields lead to non-Gaussian signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) even at the lowest order, as magnetic stresses and the temperature anisotropy they induce depend quadratically on the magnetic field. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Pranjal Trivedi , Kandaswamy Subramanian , T. R. Seshadri

We present a detailed calculation of our previous short paper [M. Shiraishi, D. Nitta, S. Yokoyama, K. Ichiki, and K. Takahashi, Phys. Rev. D 82, 121302 (2010).] in which we have investigated a constraint on the magnetic field strength…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Maresuke Shiraishi , Daisuke Nitta , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi

Measurements of the Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) polarization could provide evidence for the existence of primordial magnetic fields. The Faraday rotation could also allow the study of some properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Campanelli , A. D. Dolgov , M. Giannotti , F. L. Villante

We investigate the observational signatures of three models of the early Universe in the $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. In addition to the standard single field inflationary model, we also consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Yin-Zhe Ma , Wen Zhao , Michael L. Brown

Searching for the signal of primordial gravitational waves in the B-modes (BB) power spectrum is one of the key scientific aims of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments. However, this could be easily contaminated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Mingzhe Li , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

Intracluster magnetic fields with $ \sim \mu G $ strength induce Faraday rotation on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Measurements of this effect can potentially probe the detailed structure of intracluster magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hiroshi Ohno , Masahiro Takada , Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Naoshi Sugiyama

Detecting the imprint of inflationary gravitational waves on the $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is one of the main science cases for current and next-generation CMB experiments. In this work we explore some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley , Sigurd Naess , Ben Thorne

We examine the potential of polarization bispectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to constrain primordial magnetic fields (PMFs). We compute all possible bispectra between temperature and polarization anisotropies sourced by PMFs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-07 Maresuke Shiraishi