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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

We investigate the effects of the background primordial magnetic field (PMF) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The sound speed of the tightly coupled photon-baryon fluid is increased by the background PMF. The increased sound speed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Dai G. Yamazaki

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 primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) produced in the early universe are expected to be the origin of the large-scale cosmic magnetic fields. The PMFs are considered to leave a footprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Teppei Minoda , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroyuki Tashiro

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

We investigate bounds on the strength of the primordial magnetic field (PMF) from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectra of the intensity (temperature) modes induced from the auto- and cross-correlated bispectra of the scalar and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 Maresuke Shiraishi , Daisuke Nitta , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki

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

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

A primordial magnetic field (PMF) can affect the evolution of density field fluctuations in the early universe.In this paper we constrain the PMF amplitude $B_\lambda$ and power spectral index $n_\mathrm{B}$ by comparing calculated density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant. J. Mathews

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 constrain a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) by its contribution to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy angular power spectrum with the combination of WMAP 7 year and South Pole Telescope (SPT) data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-23 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli

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

Since the energy momentum tensor of a magnetic field always contains a spin-2 component in its anisotropic stress, stochastic primordial magnetic field (PMF) in the early universe must generate stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-27 Shuang Wang

Primordial magnetic fields could provide an explanation for the galactic magnetic fields observed today, in which case they may also leave interesting signals in the CMB and the small-scale matter power spectrum. We discuss how to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-26 J. Richard Shaw , Antony Lewis

A primordial cosmological magnetic field induces and supports vorticity or Alfven waves, which in turn generate cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. A homogeneous primordial magnetic field with fixed direction induces…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gang Chen , Pia Mukherjee , Tina Kahniashvili , Bharat Ratra , Yun Wang

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

Primordial magnetic fields possibly generated in the very early universe are one of the candidates for the origin of magnetic fields observed in many galaxies and galaxy clusters. After recombination, the dissipation process of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama

We revisit the method of using the photon-graviton conversion mechanism in the presence of the external magnetic field to probe small-scale primordial magnetic fields that may exist between the last scattering surface and present.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-01 Pisin Chen , Teruaki Suyama

A primordial magnetic field (PMF) present before recombination can leave specific signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations. Of particular importance is its contribution to the B-mode polarization power spectrum.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Alex Zucca , Yun Li , Levon Pogosian

Galactic magnetic fields are observed of order $\sim 10^{-6}G$, but their origin is not definitely known yet. In this paper we consider the primordial magnetic fields generated in the early universe and analyse their effects on the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Seoktae Koh , Chul H. Lee