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The magneto-hydrodynamic decay of primordial magnetic fields can distort the black-body spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by draining magnetic energy into thermal plasmas and photons. The current limits on CMB distortion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Fumio Uchida , Kohei Kamada , Hiroyuki Tashiro

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) offer a compelling explanation for the origin of observed magnetic fields, especially on extragalactic scales. Such PMFs give rise to excess of power in small scale matter perturbations that could strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Tal Adi , Sarah Libanore , Hector Afonso G. Cruz , Ely D. Kovetz

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

Magnetic fields with field strengths between $10^{-17}\,$G and a few Nanogauss are expected to exist today in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Their origin is unknown, but may be of primordial nature, in which case they would have influenced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Gaétan Facchinetti , Alexander Korochkin , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Justus Schwagereit

We estimate the depolarizing effect of a primordial magnetic field upon the cosmic microwave background radiation due to differential Faraday rotation across the last scattering surface. The degree of linear polarization of the CMB is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Diego Harari , Justin Hayward , Matias Zaldarriaga

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 2009-09-03 T. R. Seshadri , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We constrain a primordial magnetic field (PMF) generated during a phase transition (PT) using the big bang nucleosynthesis bound on the relativistic energy density. The amplitude of the PMF at large scales is determined by the shape of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Bharat Ratra

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

Possible influence of primordial black hole (PBH) evaporations on cosmic microwave background (CMB) is investigated. The spectrum distortions of CMB from the black-body spectrum are described by the chemical potential $\mu$ and the Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama

In this paper we study the effect of a magnetic field on the fluctuation spectrum of the cosmic microwave background. We find that upcoming measurements might give interesting bounds on large scale magnetic fields in the early Universe. If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jenni Adams , Ulf H. Danielsson , Dario Grasso , Héctor Rubinstein

Measuring spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is attracting considerable attention as a probe of high energy particle physics in the cosmological context, since PIXIE and PRISM have recently been proposed. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-01 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Joseph Silk , David J. E. Marsh

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

We consider the non-resonant mixing between photons and scalar ALPs with masses much less than the plasma frequency along the path, with specific reference to the chameleon scalar field model. The mixing would alter the intensity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-01 Camilla A. O. Schelpe

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

We provide a new bound on the amplitude of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) by using a novel mechanism, named {\it magnetic reheating}. Before the epoch of recombination, PMFs induce the fluid motions in a photon-baryon plasma through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 Shohei Saga , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) enhance small-scale structure formation through the Lorentz force acting on baryons, boosting the abundance of low-mass halos and their hosted galaxies. We show that the reionisation history calibrated with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Malcolm Fairbairn , María Olalla Olea-Romacho , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen

Primordial magnetic fields (PMF) damp at scales smaller than the photon diffusion and free-streaming scale. This leads to heating of ordinary matter (electrons and baryons), which affects both the thermal and ionization history of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Jens Chluba , Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , Jose-Alberto Rubino-Martin

In the present universe, magnetic fields exist with various strengths and on various scales. One possible origin of these cosmic magnetic fields is the primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) generated in the early universe. PMFs are considered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 Teppei Minoda , Kenji Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

We present the first constraints on primordial magnetic fields from the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest using full cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. At the scales and redshifts probed by the data, the flux power spectrum is extremely sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Mak Pavičević , Vid Iršič , Matteo Viel , James Bolton , Martin G. Haehnelt , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Ewald Puchwein , Pranjal Ralegankar

Perturbations to the cosmic baryon density - and thus to the total-matter density - can be induced by magnetohydronamic forces if there are primordial magnetic fields. The power spectrum for these density perturbations was first provided in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Tal Adi , Hector Cruz , Marc Kamionkowski