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Primordial magnetic fields may be created in collisions of expanding bubbles in a first-order cosmological phase transition and later serve as seed fields for galactic magnetic fields. Here I present results from numerical and analytical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ola Tornkvist

Cosmological constant a.k.a. dark energy problem is considered to be one major challenge in modern cosmology. Here we present a model where large scale structure formation causes spatially-flat FRW universe to fragment into numerous `FRW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-24 Golam Mortuza Hossain

We consider the hypothesis that galactic magnetic fields are primordial. We also discuss the various objections to this hypothesis. We assume that there was a magnetic field present in the galactic plasma before the galaxy formed. After the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Armando M. Howard , Russell M. Kulsrud

Magnetic fields are one of most concealed components of the universe. They are observed as part of the intergalactic medium and on galaxy cluster scales, however their origin and evolution is unclear. In this work we use the IllustrisTNG…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-04 Agustín M. Rodríguez-Medrano , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Dante J. Paz , Volker Springel

The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields is still a mystery and several scenarios have been proposed so far: among them, primordial phase transitions, structure formation shocks and galactic outflows. In this work we investigate how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serena Bertone , Corina Vogt , Torsten Ensslin

We consider the cosmological dynamics of a scalar field in a potential with multiple troughs and peaks. We show that the dynamics of the scalar field will evolve from light dark matter-like behaviour (such as that of a light axion) to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Takeshi Kobayashi , Pedro G. Ferreira

Most of the visible matter in the Universe is in a plasma state, or more specifically is composed of ionized or partially ionized gas permeated by magnetic fields. Thanks to recent advances on the theory and detection of cosmic magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

A variety of observations impose upper limits at the nano Gauss level on magnetic fields that are coherent on inter-galactic scales while blazar observations indicate a lower bound $\sim 10^{-16}$ Gauss. Such magnetic fields can play an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 Tanmay Vachaspati

We investigate a class of models for dark matter and/or negative-pressure, dynamical dark energy consisting of ``spintessence,'' a complex scalar field $\phi$ spinning in a U(1)-symmetric potential $V(\phi)=V(|\phi|)$. As the Universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Latham A. Boyle , Robert R. Caldwell , Marc Kamionkowski

Nearly seventy per cent of the energy density in the universe is unclustered and exerts negative pressure. This conclusion -- now supported by numerous observations -- poses the greatest challenge for theoretical physics today. I discuss…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 T. Padmanabhan

The origin of large magnetic fields in the Universe remains currently unknown. We investigate here a mechanism before recombination based on known physics. The source of the vorticity is due to the changes in the photon distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ophélia Fabre , S. Shankaranarayanan

We argue that dark energy with multiple fields is theoretically well-motivated and predicts distinct observational signatures, in particular when cosmic acceleration takes place along a trajectory that is highly non-geodesic in field space.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Yashar Akrami , Misao Sasaki , Adam R. Solomon , Valeri Vardanyan

A variety of observations suggest that magnetic fields are present in all galaxies and galaxy clusters. These fields are characterized by a modest strength (10^{-7}-10^{-5} G) and huge spatial scale (~Mpc). It is generally assumed that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence M. Widrow

I review a number of particle-physics models that lead to the creation of magnetic fields in the early universe and address the complex problem of evolving such primordial magnetic fields into the fields observed today. Implications for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Ola Tornkvist

Primordial magnetic field (PMF) is one of the feasible candidates to explain observed large-scale magnetic fields, for example, intergalactic magnetic fields. We present a new mechanism that brings us information about PMFs on small scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Shohei Saga , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

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

Primordial magnetic fields generated in the early universe are subject of considerable investigation, and observational limits on their strength are required to constrain the theory. Due to their impact on the reionization process, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Francesco Miniati

In this article we describe a model of the universe consisting of a mixture of the ordinary matter and a so-called cosmic quaternionic field. The basic idea here consists in an attempt to interpret $\Lambda$ as the energy density of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Majernik

The hypothesis is rapidly gaining popularity that the dark energy pervading our universe is extra-repulsive ($-p>\rho$). The density of such a substance(usually called phantom energy) grows with the cosmological expansion and may become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-01 Anton Baushev

Magnetic fields play a vital role in numerous astrophysical processes such as star formation and the interstellar medium. In particular, their role in the formation and evolution of galaxies is not well understood. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Huai-Hsuan Chiu , Ke-Jung Chen