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We studied the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity with varied bispectrum shapes on the number counts of signal-to-noise peaks in wide field cosmic shear maps. The two cosmological contributions to this particular weak lensing statistic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Maturi , C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

We examine the cosmological constraining power of future large-scale weak lensing surveys on the model of \emph{Euclid}, with particular reference to primordial non-Gaussianity. Our analysis considers several different estimators of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Fedeli , M. Bartelmann , L. Moscardini

The existence of magnetic fields associated with the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies is now well established through different methods of analysis. Magnetic fields are investigated in the radio band from studies of the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Federica Govoni , Luigina Feretti

We study the generation and evolution of density perturbations and peculiar velocities due to primordial magnetic fields. We assume that a random magnetic field was present before recombination and follow the field's effect on the baryon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Eun-jin Kim , Angela Olinto , Robert Rosner

Whilst current observational evidence favors a close-to-Gaussian spectrum of primordial perturbations, there exist many models of the early Universe that predict this distribution to have exponentially enhanced or suppressed tails. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 William R. Coulton , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We performed cosmological, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to follow the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters, exploring the possibility that the origin of the magnetic seed fields are galactic outflows during the star-burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Donnert , K. Dolag , H. Lesch , E. Müller

We study the generation of large scale primordial magnetic fields by a cosmological phase transition during the radiation dominated era. The setting is a theory of N charged scalar fields coupled to an abelian gauge field, that undergoes a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , M. Simionato

If vector type perturbations are present in the primordial plasma before recombination, the generation of magnetic fields is known to be inevitable through the Harrison mechanism. In the context of the standard cosmological perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shohei Saga , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi , Naoshi Sugiyama

The origin of the $\mu$G magnetic fields observed in galaxies is unknown. One promising scenario is that magnetic fields generated during inflation, larger than 0.1 nG on Mpc scales, were adiabatically compressed to $\mu$G strengths in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Sayan Mandal , Neelima Sehgal , Toshiya Namikawa

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can enhance the abundance of low-mass halos during Cosmic Dawn by sourcing additional small-scale matter fluctuations. This enhanced small-scale power can accelerate early galaxy formation, shifting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Keduse Worku , Hector Afonso G. Cruz , Marc Kamionkowski

We study the corrections to the conformal evolution of primordial magnetic fields after recombination, produced by the fall of the ionized fraction of matter into the dark matter gravitational wells. This effect enhances the field around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Esteban A. Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields in an expanding cosmic plasma. For this purpose we present a comprehensive theoretical model to consider the evolution of MHD turbulence that can be used over a wide range of physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Alexander G. Tevzadze

Cosmic magnetic fields are observed to be coherent on large scales and could have a primordial origin. Non-Gaussian signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are generated by primordial magnetic fields as the magnetic stresses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Pranjal Trivedi , Kandaswamy Subramanian , T. R. Seshadri

At metallicities lower than that of the Small Magellanic Cloud, it remains essentially unexplored how fossil magnetic fields, forming large-scale magnetospheres, could affect the evolution of massive stars, thereby impacting the fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Z. Keszthelyi , J. Puls , G. Chiaki , H. Nagakura , A. ud-Doula , T. Takiwaki , N. Tominaga

Magnetic fields are everywhere in nature and they play an important role in every astronomical environment which involves the formation of plasma and currents. It is natural therefore to suppose that magnetic fields could be present in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathew

In this paper we show that noncommutativity in spatial coordinates can generate magnetic field in the early Universe on a horizon scale. The strength of such a magnetic field depends on the number density of massive charged particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 Anupam Mazumdar , Mohammad M. Sheikh-Jabbari

Despite their ubiquity, the origin of cosmic magnetic fields remains unknown. Various mechanisms have been proposed for their existence including primordial fields generated by inflation, or amplification and injection by compact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Harley Katz , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Taysun Kimm

Magnetic fields can drastically change predictions of evolutionary models of massive stars via mass-loss quenching, magnetic braking, and efficient angular momentum transport, which we aim to quantify in this work. We use the MESA software…

We investigate the evolution of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters starting from constant primordial fields using highly resolved ($\approx \rm 4 ~kpc$) cosmological MHD simulations. The magnetic fields in our sample exhibit amplification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Gianfranco Brunetti

Gravitational weak shear produced by large-scale structures of the universe induces a correlated ellipticity distribution of distant galaxies. The amplitude and evolution with angular scale of the signal depend on cosmological models and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. Mellier , L. van Waerbeke , R. Maoli , P. Schneider , B. Jain , F. Bernardeau , T. Erben , B. Fort , .