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Blazar observations point toward the possible presence of magnetic fields over intergalactic scales of the order of up to $\sim1\,$Mpc, with strengths of at least $\sim10^{-16}\,$G. Understanding the origin of these large-scale magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Arthur Kosowsky , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

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

We give an improved estimate of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological first order phase transitions. We examine the charge distribution at the nucleated bubble wall and its dynamics. We consider instabilities on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Guenter Sigl , Angela Olinto , Karsten Jedamzik

While emission and absorption lines of the 21 cm spin-flip transition of neutral Hydrogen are intrinsically unpolarized, a magnetic field creates left- and right-handed polarized components through the Zeeman effect. Here we consider the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Asantha Cooray , Steven Furlanetto

Magnetic field plays a very important role in many astronomical phenomena at various scales of the universe. It is no exception in the early universe. Since the energy density, pressure, and tension of the primordial magnetic field affect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Ken-ichi Umezu , Hidekazu Hanayama

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

The cross correlation between the CMB Doppler mode and the 21 cm line brightness temperature is calculated in the presence of a stochastic primordial magnetic field. Potential detectability is estimated for Planck 2018 bestfit parameters in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Kerstin E. Kunze

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

In the mean field approximation of the relativistic $\sigma$-$\omega$-$\rho$ model, the magnetic fields are incorporated, and its influence on the properties of n-p-e neutron star matter are studied. When the strength of the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Chen , P. Q. Zhang , L. G. Liu

We examine the effect of uniform ambient magnetic fields on the evolution of supernova-driven blast waves into a homogeneous ambient ISM in thermal equilibrium. Using the Pencil Code we simulate high resolution nonideal magnetohydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-24 Cetin Can Evirgen , Frederick Gent

Recent observations of magnetic fields in intergalactic void regions and in high redshift galaxies may indicate that large scale magnetic fields have a primordial origin. If primordial magnetic fields were present soon after the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-27 Maresuke Shiraishi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Kiyotomo Ichiki

We use the $f^{2}FF$ model to study the generation of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) in the context of large field inflation (LFI), described by the potential, $V \sim M \phi^{p}$. We compute the magnetic and electric spectra for all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Anwar AlMuhammad , Rafael Lopez-Mobilia

We study the possibility that primordial magnetic fields generated in the transition between inflation and reheating posses magnetic helicity, $H_M$. The fields are induced by stochastic currents of scalar charged particles created during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can source gravitational wave background (GWB). In this paper, we investigate the possible constraints on small-scale PMF considering the ongoing and forthcoming direct detection observations of GWB. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Shohei Saga , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

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

This review concerns the origin and the possible effects of magnetic fields in the early Universe. We start by providing to the reader with a short overview of the current state of art of observations of cosmic magnetic fields. We then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Dario Grasso , H. R. Rubinstein

In the first paper of this series, we proposed a novel method to probe large-scale intergalactic magnetic fields during the cosmic Dark Ages, using 21-cm tomography. This method relies on the effect of spin alignment of hydrogen atoms in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Vera Gluscevic , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Xiao Fang , Christopher Hirata , Antonija Oklopcic , Abhilash Mishra

Large scale magnetic fields represent a triple point where cosmology, high-energy physics and astrophysics meet for different but related purposes. After reviewing the implications of large scale magnetic fields in these different areas,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Giovannini

We use the measured scattering timescales of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from the CHIME catalog to derive an upper limit on the magnetic field on sub-kpc scales in the intergalactic medium (IGM). A nonmagnetized, photoionized IGM is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

We present three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of the self-gravitating interstellar medium (ISM) in a periodic (256 pc)$^3$ box with a mean number density of 0.5 cm$^{-3}$. At a fixed supernova rate we investigate the…