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The regulation of galactic-scale star formation rates (SFRs) is a basic problem for theories of galaxy formation and evolution: which processes are responsible for making observed star formation rates so inefficient compared to maximal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Sven Van Loo , Jonathan C. Tan , Sam A. E. G. Falle

We investigate how primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) affect the formation kinetics of the first molecules, H$_2$, HD, and HeH$^+$, as well as the populations of rovibrational levels and the global signals in the rovibrational transitions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Yurii Kulinich , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Maksym Tsizh , Nazar Fortuna

Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the smallest size scales. In this review we discuss the effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 Mark R. Krumholz , Christoph Federrath

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

Magnetic fields with field strengths between $10^{-17}\,$G and a few Nanogauss are expected to exist today in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Their origin is unknown, but may be of primordial nature, in which case they would have influenced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Gaétan Facchinetti , Alexander Korochkin , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Justus Schwagereit

Magnetic fields are observed in star forming regions. However simulations of the late stages of star formation that do not include magnetic fields provide a good fit to the properties of young stars including the initial mass function (IMF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. J. Nixon , J. E. Pringle

We recently predicted the existence of random primordial magnetic fields (RPMF) in the form of randomly oriented cells with dipole-like structure with a cell size $L_0$ and an average magnetic field $B_0$. Here we investigate models for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 Rafael S. de Souza , Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Reuven Opher

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

We present the first constraints on primordial magnetic fields from the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest using full cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. At the scales and redshifts probed by the data, the flux power spectrum is extremely sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Mak Pavičević , Vid Iršič , Matteo Viel , James Bolton , Martin G. Haehnelt , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Ewald Puchwein , Pranjal Ralegankar

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

The presence of primordial magnetic fields increases the minimum halo mass in which star formation is possible at high redshifts. Estimates of the dynamical mass of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) within their half-light radius constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Abraham Loeb

We investigate bounds on the strength of the primordial magnetic field (PMF) from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectra of the intensity (temperature) modes induced from the auto- and cross-correlated bispectra of the scalar and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 Maresuke Shiraishi , Daisuke Nitta , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Early data releases of JWST have revealed several high redshift massive galaxy candidates by photometry, and some of them have been confirmed spectroscopically. We study their implications on the primordial power spectrum. In the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Priyank Parashari , Ranjan Laha

We constrain a stochastic background of primordial magnetic field (PMF) by its contribution to the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. We parametrize such stochastic background by a power-law spectrum with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli

We constrain a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) by its contribution to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy angular power spectrum with the combination of WMAP 7 year and South Pole Telescope (SPT) data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-23 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli

Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is affected by the energy density of a primordial magnetic field (PMF). For an easy derivation of constraints on models for PMF generations, we assume a PMF with a power law (PL) distribution in wave number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-14 Dai G. Yamazaki , Motohiko Kusakabe

Magnetic fields are usually considered dynamically important in star formation when the dimensionless mass-to-flux ratio is close to, or less than, unity (lambda<~1). We show that, in disk formation, the requirement is far less stringent.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard R. Mellon , Zhi-Yun Li

We study the generation and evolution of density perturbations and peculiar velocities due to primordial magnetic fields. We assume that a random magnetic field was present before recombination and follow the field's effect on the baryon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Eun-jin Kim , Angela Olinto , Robert Rosner

In this paper, we revisit in detail the effects of primordial magnetic fields on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) including a discussion of the magnetic field geometry and the anomalous magnetic moment. The presence of magnetic fields affects…

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

Spatially varying primordial magnetic fields may be efficiently dissipated prior to the epoch of recombination due to the large viscosity of the baryon-photon fluid. We show that this dissipation may result in observable chemical potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Jedamzik , V. Katalinic , A. V. Olinto