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Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can enhance the abundance of low-mass halos during Cosmic Dawn by sourcing additional small-scale matter fluctuations. This enhanced small-scale power can accelerate early galaxy formation, shifting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Keduse Worku , Hector Afonso G. Cruz , Marc Kamionkowski

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) can enhance baryon perturbations on scales below the photon mean free path. However, a magnetically driven baryon fluid becomes turbulent near recombination, thereby damping out baryon perturbations below…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Pranjal Ralegankar

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

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) play a pivotal role in influencing small-scale fluctuations within the primordial density field, thereby enhancing the matter power spectrum within the context of the $\Lambda$CDM model at small scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Qile Zhang , Shang Li , Xiu-Hui Tan , Jun-Qing Xia

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

Linear theory predicts that primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) enhance the matter power spectrum on small scales. However, the linear approximation breaks down on sufficiently small scales where PMF-induced baryon perturbations back-react…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Pranjal Ralegankar , Enrico Garaldi , Matteo Viel

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

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

Recent cosmological data and astrophysical observations, such as the Hubble tension and the increasing preference from galaxy surveys for dynamical dark energy, have begun to challenge the standard $\Lambda$-cold dark matter cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Jonathan Schiff , Tejaswi Venumadhav

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs), being present before the epoch of cosmic recombination, induce small-scale baryonic density fluctuations. These inhomogeneities lead to an inhomogeneous recombination process that alters the peaks and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Karsten Jedamzik , Andrey Saveliev

We present the first results from SPHINX-MHD, a suite of cosmological radiation-magnetohydrodynamics simulations designed to study the impact of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) on galaxy formation and the evolution of the intergalactic…

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

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

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

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

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 Lorentz force exerted by a primordial magnetic field (PMF) on the coupled baryon-dark matter system may enhance total matter power at small scales after recombination. In the post-reionization (post-EoR) era, a weakly scale-dependent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Arko Bhaumik , Sourav Pal , Supratik Pal

Magnetic fields appear to be present in essentially all astrophysical environments, including galaxies, clusters of galaxies and voids. There are both observational and theoretical motives for considering the possibility of their origin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Karsten Jedamzik , Levon Pogosian

The origin of interstellar and intergalactic magnetic fields remains largely unknown. One possibility is that they are related to the primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) produced by, for instance, the phase transitions of the early Universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Yao-Yu Li , Chi Zhang , Ziwei Wang , Ming-Yang Cui , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan
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