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Primordial magnetic fields may account for all or part of the fields observed in galaxies. We consider the evolution of the magnetic fields created by pseudoscalar effects in the early universe. Such processes can create force-free fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 George B. Field , Sean M. Carroll

Gravitational wave experiments will play a key role in the investigation of the frontiers of cosmology and the structure of fundamental fields at high energies, by detecting, or setting strong upper-limits to, the primordial gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

As one of the prime contributors to the interstellar medium energy budget, magnetic fields naturally play a part in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Galactic magnetic fields can originate from strong primordial magnetic fields provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt , Carlos Gómez-Guijarro

The origin of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is widely thought to be from early Universe processes, like inflation or phase transitions. These magnetic fields evolve via magnetohydrodynamic processes until the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Molly Abramson , Emma Clarke , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Salome Mtchedlidze , Jennifer Schober

We discuss the implications of causality on a primordial magnetic field. We show that the residual field on large scales is much more suppressed than usually assumed and that a helical component is even more reduced. Due to this strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ruth Durrer , Chiara Caprini

We explore the ways in which primordial magnetic fields influence the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination universe. After recombination the universe becomes mostly neutral resulting also in a sharp drop in the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shiv K. Sethi , Kandaswamy Subramanian

A symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe could have led to the formation of cosmic defects. Because these defects dynamically excite not only scalar and tensor type cosmological perturbations but also vector type ones,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kouichirou Horiguchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Naoshi Sugiyama

We study the implications of primordial magnetic fields for the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination era. In particular we compute the effects of dissipation of primordial magnetic fields owing to ambipolar diffusion and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shiv K Sethi , Biman B. Nath , Kandaswamy Subramanian

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 primordial magnetic field (PMF) can strongly affect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum and the formation of large scale structure. In this presentation, we calculate the CMB temperature anisotropies generated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathews

We present the newest statistical and numerical analysis of the matter and cosmic microwave background power spectrum with effects of the primordial magnetic field (PMF) included. New limits to the PMF strength and power spectral index are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant. J. Mathews

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) may significantly influence 21-cm physics via two mechanisms: (i) magnetic heating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) through ambipolar diffusion (AD) and decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (DT), (ii)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Arko Bhaumik , Debarun Paul , Supratik Pal

Magnetic fields appear everywhere in the universe. From stars and galaxies, all the way to galaxy clusters and remote protogalactic clouds magnetic fields of considerable strength and size have been repeatedly observed. Despite their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alejandra Kandus , Kerstin E. Kunze , Christos G. Tsagas

The redshifted cosmic 21 cm line signal of neutral hydrogen provides the possibility to constrain the matter power spectrum. Cross correlating temperature maps at different frequencies (corresponding to different redshifts along the line of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Kerstin E. Kunze

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are magnetic fields generated during the early universe. These fields are thought to be the seeds of extragalactic magnetic fields. The origin of PMFs is not well known. Further, if they are indeed sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ganga R. Nair , V. Sreenath

We explore the amplification of magnetic fields in the high-redshift Universe. For this purpose, we perform high-resolution cosmological simulations following the formation of primordial halos with \sim10^7 M_solar, revealing the presence…

A primordial magnetic field could be responsible for the observed magnetic fields of the galaxies. One possibility is that such a primordial field is generated at the electroweak phase transition because of the fluctuations in the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist

Primordial magnetic field (PMF) is one of the feasible candidates to explain observed large-scale magnetic fields, for example, intergalactic magnetic fields. We present a new mechanism that brings us information about PMFs on small scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Shohei Saga , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We study the effect of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We assume the spectrum of PMFs is described by log-normal distribution which has a characteristic scale, rather than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-30 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi

A possible explanation for the origin of the magnetic fields observed today in matter structures is that they were generated in the primordial universe. After briefly revising the model of a primordial stochastic magnetic field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Chiara Caprini