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Detailed physical processes of magnetic field generation from density fluctuations in the pre-recombination era are studied. Solving Maxwell equations and the generalized Ohm's law, the evolutions of the net charge density, the electric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

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

The origin of large scale cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery, despite the continuous efforts devoted to that problem. We present a new model of magnetic field generation, based on local charge separation provided by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Mathieu Langer , Jean-Loup Puget , Nabila Aghanim

It is widely believed that primordial magnetic fields are dramatically diluted by the expansion of the universe. As a result, cosmological magnetic fields with residual strengths of astrophysical relevance are generally sought by going…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 John D. Barrow , Christos G. Tsagas

We derive an upper limit of $B_0<3.4\times 10^{-9}(\Omega_0h_{50}^2)^{1/2}$ Gauss on the present strength of any primordial homogeneous magnetic field. The microwave background anisotropy created by cosmological magnetic fields is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 John D. Barrow , Pedro G. Ferreira , Joseph Silk

The origin of astrophysical magnetic fields observed in galaxies and clusters of galaxies is still unclear. One possibility is that primordial magnetic fields generated in the early Universe provide seeds that grow through compression and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

We discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the second order.…

In this letter, we discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroshi Ohno , Hidekazu Hanayama

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

(abridged) We suggest here that the large scale fields $\sim \mu$G, observed in galaxies at both high and low redshifts by Faraday Rotation Measurements (FRMs), have their origin in the electromagnetic fluctuations that naturally occurred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rafael S. de Souza , Reuven Opher

The origin of the observed large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is a mystery. The seed of these magnetic fields has been attributed to physical process in the early universe. In this work we provide a mechanism for the generation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 Abhishek Atreya , Soma Sanyal

It is argued that large scale cosmic magnetic field could be generated in the primeval plasma slightly before hydrogen recombination. Non-zero vorticity, necessary for that, might be created by the photon diffusion in the second order in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. Berezhiani , A. D. Dolgov

In this work we consider the most general electromagnetic theory in curved space-time leading to linear second order differential equations, including non-minimal couplings to the space-time curvature. We assume the presence of a temporal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

We study the amplification of magnetic fields during the formation of primordial halos. The turbulence generated by gravitational infall motions during the formation of the first stars and galaxies can amplify magnetic fields very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jennifer Schober , Dominik Schleicher , Christoph Federrath , Simon Glover , Ralf Klessen , Robi Banerjee

A primordial magnetic field could be responsible for the observed magnetic fields of the galaxies. One possibility is that such a primordial field is generated at the electroweak phase transition because of the fluctuations in the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist

While magnetic fields are important in contemporary star formation, their role in primordial star formation is unknown. Magnetic fields of order 10^-16 G are produced by the Biermann battery due to the curved shocks and turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Christopher F. McKee , Athena Stacy , Pak Shing Li

The galactic magnetic field is commonly supposed to be due to a dynamo acting on some large scale seed field. A major difficulty with this idea is that estimates of reasonable seed field strengths tend to be quite low, on the order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ethan T. Vishniac

It is usually assumed that when Weyl invariance is unbroken in the electromagnetic sector, the energy density of primordial magnetic fields will redshift as radiation. Here we show that primordial magnetic fields do not exhibit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Takeshi Kobayashi , Martin S. Sloth

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

We propose a mechanism for the generation of a magnetic field in the early universe during the QCD crossover assuming that dark matter is made of axions. Thermoelectric fields arise at pressure gradients in the primordial plasma due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Francesco Miniati , Gianluca Gregori , Brian Reville , Subir Sarkar