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A cosmological magnetic field affects the time evolution of the cosmic matter density field. The squared Alfven velocity of the cosmic fluid is proportional to an ensemble average energy density of a primordial magnetic field (PMF), and it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Dai G. Yamazaki

The power spectrum of unresolved thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) clusters is extremely sensitive to the amplitude of the matter fluctuations. This paper present an analysis of the tSZ power spectrum using temperature power spectra of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 George Efstathiou , Fiona McCarthy

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs), which were generated in the early Universe before recombination, affect the motion of plasma and then the cosmic microwave background and the matter power spectrum. We consider constraints on PMFs with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are possible candidates for explaining the observed magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Two competing scenarios of primordial magnetogenesis have been discussed in the literature: inflationary and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-17 Salome Mtchedlidze , Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Xiaolong Du , Wolfram Schmidt , Axel Brandenburg , Jens Niemeyer , Tina Kahniashvili

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can enhance matter power spectrum on small scales ($\lesssim$ Mpc) and still agree with bounds from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Faraday rotation measurements. As modes on scales smaller than Mpc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Pranjal Ralegankar , Mak Pavičević , Matteo Viel

At high angular frequencies the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect constitutes the dominant signal in the CMB sky. The tSZ effect is caused by large scale pressure fluctuations in the baryonic distribution in the Universe so its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Shahab Joudaki , Peter Coles

The cosmic thermal history, quantified by the evolution of the mean thermal energy density in the universe, is driven by the growth of structures as baryons get shock heated in collapsing dark matter halos. This process can be probed by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Yi-Kuan Chiang , Ryu Makiya , Brice Ménard , Eiichiro Komatsu

In recent years, the study of secondary anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background has become a fundamental instrument to test our understanding of the Universe. Using a set of lightcones produced with the ``Dark Energy and Massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Davide Luchina , Mauro Roncarelli , Matteo Calabrese , Giulio Fabbian , Carmelita Carbone

We explore the effects of magnetic energy dissipation on the formation of the first stars. For this purpose, we follow the evolution of primordial chemistry in the presence of magnetic fields in the post-recombination universe until the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Daniele Galli , Simon C. O. Glover , Robi Banerjee , Francesco Palla , Raffaella Schneider , Ralf S. Klessen

We carry out a comprehensive analysis of the possible constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters achievable with measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum from upcoming full-sky CMB observations, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-01 J. Colin Hill , Enrico Pajer

Most baryons in present-day galaxy clusters exist as hot gas ($\boldsymbol{\gtrsim10^7\,\rm}\mathrm{K}$), forming the intracluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that the mass and temperature of the ICM rapidly decrease with…

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is a spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) resulting from inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons with electrons in the medium of galaxy clusters. The spectrum of the tSZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 David Zegeye , Thomas Crawford , Wayne Hu

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) may explain observations of magnetic fields on extragalactic scales. They are most cleanly constrained by measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) anisotropies. Their effects on cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Karsten Jedamzik , Tom Abel , Yacine Ali-Haimoud

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

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is a powerful tool with the potential for constraining directly the properties of the hot gas that dominates dark matter halos because it measures pressure and thus thermal energy density.…

Primordial Magnetic Fields (PMFs) -- magnetic fields originating in the early Universe and permeating the cosmological scales today -- can explain the observed microGauss-level magnetisation of galaxies and their clusters. In light of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Salome Mtchedlidze , Franco Vazza , Xiaolong Du , Ettore Carretti , Chiara Stuardi , Shane Patrick O'Sullivan

The true nature of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) and their role in the formation of galaxies still remains elusive. To shed light on these unknowns, we investigate their impact by varying two sets of properties: (i) accounting for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Mahsa Sanati , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Jennifer Schober , Yves Revaz , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt

The origin of large-scale magnetic fields is an unsolved problem in cosmology. In order to overcome, a possible scenario comes from the idea that these fields emerged from a small primordial magnetic field (PMF), produced in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Hector J. Hortua , Leonardo Castañeda

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

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