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Miniati and Bell (2011) proposed a mechanism for the generation of magnetic seeds that is based the finite resistivity of the low temperature IGM in the high redshift universe. In this model, cosmic-ray protons generated by the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-20 Francesco Miniati , A. R. Bell

The origin of the observed large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is a mystery. The seed of these magnetic fields has been attributed to physical process in the early universe. In this work we provide a mechanism for the generation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 Abhishek Atreya , Soma Sanyal

It is shown that the standard cosmological model predicts {\it ab initio} generation of large-scale but very small-amplitude cosmic magnetic fields at the epoch of recombination of the primeval plasma. Matter velocities dominated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

We propose a novel mechanism to generate primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) strong enough to explain the observed cosmic magnetic fields. We employ a scalar field charged under U(1) gauge symmetry with a non-trivial VEV to provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Ganz , Chunshan Lin , Mian Zhu

We study the primordial perturbations generated during a stage of single-field inflation in Einstein-aether theories. Quantum fluctuations of the inflaton and aether fields seed long wavelength adiabatic and isocurvature scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Cristian Armendariz-Picon , Noela Farina Sierra , Jaume Garriga

Magnetic fields appear to be present in all galaxies and galaxy clusters. Recent measurements indicate that a weak magnetic field may be present even in the smooth low density intergalactic medium. One explanation for these observations is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Smadar Naoz , Ramesh Narayan

Cosmological inflation provides the initial conditions for the structure formation. However, the origin of large-scale magnetic fields cannot be addressed in this framework. The key issue for this long-standing problem is the conformal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Debottam Nandi , S. Shankaranarayanan

Blazar observations point toward the possible presence of magnetic fields over intergalactic scales of the order of up to $\sim1\,$Mpc, with strengths of at least $\sim10^{-16}\,$G. Understanding the origin of these large-scale magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Arthur Kosowsky , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

It is demonstrated that strong magnetic fields are produced from a zero initial magnetic field during the pregalactic era, when galaxies are first forming. Their development proceeds in three phases. In the first phase, weak magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Russell M. Kulsrud , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Dongsu Ryu

Primordial magnetic fields will generate non-Gaussian signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as magnetic stresses and the temperature anisotropy they induce depend quadratically on the magnetic field. We compute a new measure of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-15 Pranjal Trivedi , T. R. Seshadri , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study the generation of magnetic field in the primordial plasma of the standard model (SM) particles at temperature $T>80$~TeV much higher than the electroweak scale. It is assumed that there is an excess number of right-handed electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arun Kumar Pandey

We investigate the geometric dynamics of the primordial electric and magnetic fields during the early stages of the universe by extending a recently introduced quantum algebra \cite{BMM,BMAS}. We work on an extended model of gravity that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-02 Daniela Magos , Mauricio Bellini

Magnetic fields appear wherever plasma and currents can be found. As such, they thread through all scales in Nature. It is natural, therefore, to suppose that magnetic fields might have been formed within the high temperature environments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-16 Dai G. Yamazaki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathew , Kiyotomo Ichiki

In the standard cosmological model, magnetic fields and vorticity are generated during the radiation era via second-order density perturbations. In order to clarify the complicated physics of this second-order magnetogenesis, we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Roy Maartens , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Keitaro Takahashi

Recently much controversy has been shed on BICEP 2 experiments for the concerning this validity or not and a possible set of new experiments to detect primordial inflation and gravitational waves. Since gravitational waves imply the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-13 L. C. G. Andrade

This paper examines the generation of seed magnetic fields due to the growth of cosmological perturbations. In the radiation era, different rates of scattering from photons induce local differences in the ion and electron density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. R. Siegel , J. N. Fry

Possible signatures of primordial magnetic fields on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies are reviewed. The signals that could be searched for include excess temperature anisotropies particularly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kandaswamy Subramanian

Mechanisms of generation of magnetic fields in the early universe which could seed the present-day large scale galactic magnetic fields, are briefly reviewed. Three possible ways to create large scale magnetic fields are discussed: breaking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 A. D. Dolgov

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are one of the plausible candidates for the origin of the observed large-scale magnetic fields. While many proposals have been made for the generation mechanism of PMFs by earlier studies, it remains a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Shohei Saga , Maresuke Shiraishi , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Teppei Okumura

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