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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 existence of a primordial magnetic field (PMF) would affect both the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It also provides a plausible explanation for the possible disparity between…

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

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 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

Weak gravitational lensing has several important effects on the cosmic microwave background (CMB): it changes the CMB power spectra, induces non-Gaussianities, and generates a B-mode polarization signal that is an important source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor

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

In this work we investigate the effects of the primordial magnetic fields on cosmic microwave background anisotropies (CMB). Based on cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations we calculate the CMB anisotropy spectra and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama , Robi Banerjee

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

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is a well-known probe of the non-Gaussianity of primordial perturbations. Just as the intervening large-scale structure modifies the CMB angular power spectrum through weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray , Devdeep Sarkar , Paolo Serra

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

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 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

Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have extended the measured power spectrum to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and there appears to be possible evidence for excess power on small angular scales. The primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 D. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino , G. J. Mathews

We discuss whether an unaccounted contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization $B$-mode by primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can bias future constraints on inflationary gravitational waves. As a case-study, we consider a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Fabrizio Renzi , Giovanni Cabass , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano

Weak lensing distortion of the background cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns by the foreground density fluctuations is well studied in the literature. We discuss the gravitational lensing modification to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chao Li , Asantha Cooray

The weak lensing effect on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) induces distortions in spatial pattern of CMB anisotropies, and statistical properties of CMB anisotropies become a weakly non-Gaussian field. We first summarize the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-17 Toshiya Namikawa

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide our best laboratory for testing models of the formation and evolution of large-scale structure. The rich features in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectrum, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

In this paper, we investigate the effects of helical primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) reduced bispectrum. We derive the full three-point statistics of helical magnetic fields and numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Hector J. Hortua , Leonardo Castañeda

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by large-scale structure in the late universe is both a source of cosmological information and a potential contaminant of primordial gravity waves. Because lensing imprints growth of…

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