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The effects of magnetic fields on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis(BBN) have been calculated, and the impact on the abundances of the light elements have been investigated numerically. An upper limit on the strength of primordial magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Baolian Cheng , David N. Schramm , James W. Truran

A primordial magnetic field may be generated during an inflationary period if conformal invariance is broken. We reexamine and generalize previous results about the magnetic field produced by couplings of the form $R^n…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 F. D. Mazzitelli , F. M. Spedalieri

Redshift space distortions are an important probe of the growth of large-scale structure and for constraining cosmological parameters in general. As galaxy redshift surveys approach percent level precision in their observations of the two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Juliana Kwan , Ian G. McCarthy , Jaime Salcido

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

As one of the prime contributors to the interstellar medium energy budget, magnetic fields naturally play a part in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Galactic magnetic fields can originate from strong primordial magnetic fields provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt , Carlos Gómez-Guijarro

The enormous red-shifting of the modes during the inflationary epoch suggests that physics at the very high energy scales may modify the primordial perturbation spectrum. Therefore, the measurements of the anisotropies in the Cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Shankaranarayanan , L. Sriramkumar

The generation of primordial magnetic fields from cosmological phase transitions is discussed, paying particular attention to the electroweak transition and to the various definitions of the `average' field that have been put forward. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Mark Hindmarsh , Allen Everett

We study the dissipative effects of baryon physics on cosmic statistics at small scales using a cosmological simulation of a (50 Mpc/h)^3 volume of the universe. The MareNostrum simulation was performed using the AMR code RAMSES, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Guillet , R. Teyssier , S. Colombi

We study the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent hot plasma of the early Universe accounting for the chiral magnetic effect. The magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is modeled by replacing the matter velocity in the advection term in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Maxim Dvornikov

In this paper we investigate magnetic fields generated in the early Universe. These fields are important candidates at explaining the origin of astrophysical magnetism observed in galaxies and galaxy clusters, whose genesis is still by and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-19 Stefano Camera , Cosimo Fedeli , Lauro Moscardini

The possible existence of a primordial magnetic field in the universe has been previously investigated in many articles. Studies involving the influence of a magnetic field in the nucleosyntesis era, studies considering the effects in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. C. N. de Araujo , R. Opher

Faraday rotation (RM) probes of magnetic fields in the universe are sensitive to cosmological and evolutionary effects as $z$ increases beyond $\sim $1 because of the scalings of electron density and magnetic fields, and the growth in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. P. Kronberg , M. L. Bernet , F. Miniati , S. J. Lilly , M. B. Short , D. M. Higdon

Magnetic fields are often invoked as playing a primary role in star formation and in the formation of high-mass stars. We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the formation of high-mass cores using the 3-dimensional smoothed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Katerina Sophia Klos , Ian A. Bonnell , Rowan J. Smith

We study the evolution of random hypermagnetic fields (HMFs) in the symmetric phase of the early universe before the electroweak phase transition. The behavior of HMFs is driven by the analog of the chiral magnetic effect accounting for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Maxim Dvornikov

Accurate cosmology from upcoming weak lensing surveys relies on knowledge of the total matter power spectrum at percent level at scales $k < 10$ $h$/Mpc, for which modelling the impact of baryonic physics is crucial. We compare measurements…

Magnetic field strengths in objects ranging from HII regions to cosmological large scale structure can be estimated using dense grids of Rotation Measures (RMs) from polarized background radio structures. Upcoming surveys on the SKA and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-29 Lawrence Rudnick

Magnetic fields significantly influence the structure of galaxies' interstellar media, but our understanding of magnetic field strengths and structures in external galaxies is severely limited. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offers a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-30 Hilay Shah , Mark Krumholz , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Cosmic strings are a type of cosmic defect formed by a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe. Individual strings would have gathered to build a network, and their dynamical motion would induce scalar--, vector-- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-07 Kouichirou Horiguchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

The effects of initially uniform magnetic fields on the formation and evolution of dense pillars and cometary globules at the boundaries of H II regions are investigated using 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamics simulations. It is shown, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-04-07 Jonathan Mackey , Andrew J. Lim

We consider that no mean magnetic field exists during this epoch, but that there is a mean magnetic energy associated with large-scale magnetic inhomogeneities. We study the evolution of these inhomogeneities and their influence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 E. Battaner , E. Florido , J. Jimenez-Vicente
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