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We study prospects of constraining the primordial magnetic field (PMF) and its evolution during the dark ages and cosmic dawn in light of EDGES 21-cm signal. Our analysis has been carried out on a `colder IGM' background which is one of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-13 Ankita Bera , Kanan K. Datta , Saumyadip Samui

We propose a novel mechanism to generate primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) strong enough to explain the observed cosmic magnetic fields. We employ a scalar field charged under U(1) gauge symmetry with a non-trivial VEV to provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Ganz , Chunshan Lin , Mian Zhu

The origin of large-scale magnetic fields is an unsolved problem in cosmology. In order to overcome, a possible scenario comes from the idea that these fields emerged from a small primordial magnetic field (PMF), produced in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Hector J. Hortua , Leonardo Castañeda

Motivated by the stellar fossil record of Local Group (LG) dwarf galaxies, we show that the star-forming ancestors of the faintest ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs; ${\rm M}_{\rm V}$ $\sim -2$ or ${\rm M}_{\star}$ $\sim 10^{2}$ at $z=0$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Daniel R. Weisz , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Was the primordial universe magnetized? The answer to this question would help explain the origin of micro-Gauss strength magnetic fields observed in galaxies. It is also of fundamental importance in developing a complete theory of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-14 Levon Pogosian , Alex Zucca

The presence of ubiquitous magnetic fields in the universe is suggested from observations of radiation and cosmic ray from galaxies or the intergalactic medium (IGM). One possible origin of cosmic magnetic fields is the magnetogenesis in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 Teppei Minoda , Kenji Hasegawa , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

We derive constraints on primordial power spectrum, for the first time, from galaxy UV luminosity functions (LFs) at high redshifts. Since the galaxy LFs reflect an underlying halo mass function which depends on primordial fluctuations, one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Shintaro Yoshiura , Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi , Tomo Takahashi

We explore the possibility of generating large-scale magnetic fields from second-order cosmological perturbations during the pre-recombination era. The key process for this is Thomson scattering between the photons and the charged particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Satoshi Maeda , Satoshi Kitagawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Tetsuya Shiromizu

Most early Universe scenarios predict negligible magnetic fields on cosmological scales if they are unprocessed during subsequent expansion of the Universe. We present a new numerical treatment of the evolution of primordial fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guenter Sigl

$\gamma$-ray emission of blazars infer the presence of large-scale magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium, but their origin remains a mystery. Using recent data from MAGIC, H.E.S.S. and $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT, we investigate whether the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 María Olalla Olea-Romacho

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe on all scales and play a key role during star formation. We study the evolution of magnetic fields around a massive metal-free (Population III) star at $z \sim 15$ during the growth of its HII region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Daegene Koh , John H. Wise

The spectrum of energy density fluctuations, baryon asymmetry, and coherent large-scale magnetic fields are the three observables that provide crucial information on physics at very high energies. Inflation can only provide a mechanism to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-09 Ashu Kushwaha , S. Shankaranarayanan

We discuss whether an unaccounted contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization $B$-mode by primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can bias future constraints on inflationary gravitational waves. As a case-study, we consider a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Fabrizio Renzi , Giovanni Cabass , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano

We present a detailed analysis of an astrophysical mechanism that generates cosmological magnetic fields during the Epoch of Reionization. It is based on the photoionization of the Intergalactic Medium by the first sources formed in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jean-Baptiste Durrive , Mathieu Langer

We constrain the warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass with the observations of cosmic reionization and CMB optical depth. We suggest that the GWs from stellar mass black holes (BHs) could give a further constraint on WDM particle mass for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 W. W. Tan , F. Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

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

Bounds on the amplitude of a scale-invariant stochastic primordial magnetic field (PMF) can be significantly improved by measurements of the Faraday Rotation (FR) of CMB polarization. The mode-coupling correlations induced by FR make it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Levon Pogosian

The existence of a primordial magnetic field (PMF) would affect both the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It also provides a plausible explanation for the possible disparity between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathews

We reconstruct the 3D structure of magnetic fields, which were seeded by density perturbations during the radiation dominated epoch of the Universe and later on were evolved by structure formation. To achieve this goal, we rely on three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Sebastian Dorn , Jens Jasche , Franco Vazza , Daniela Paoletti , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten A. Enßlin

Strongly supercooled first order phase transitions (FOPTs) can produce primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) along with observable gravitational waves (GWs) from bubble collisions. Such FOPTs may also produce coherent magnetic fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-24 Shyam Balaji , Malcolm Fairbairn , Maria Olalla Olea-Romacho