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A primordial cosmological magnetic field induces Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background polarization. This rotation produces a curl-type polarization component even when the unrotated polarization possesses only gradient-type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arthur Kosowsky , Tina Kahniashvili , George Lavrelashvili , Bharat Ratra

We study the contribution of a stochastic background (SB) of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) on the anisotropies in temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). A SB of PMF modelled as a fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , Francesco Paci

We estimate the depolarizing effect of a primordial magnetic field upon the cosmic microwave background radiation due to differential Faraday rotation across the last scattering surface. The degree of linear polarization of the CMB is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Diego Harari , Justin Hayward , Matias Zaldarriaga

The changes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum seen as an increase of temperature due to a strong magnetic field are determined and their influence on the polarization of the radiation is exhibited. The effect is due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Zofia Bialynicka-Birula , Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

Possible signatures of primordial magnetic fields on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies are reviewed. The signals that could be searched for include excess temperature anisotropies particularly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kandaswamy Subramanian

Inflation predicts specific relations between the amplitudes and spectral indices of the primordial spectrum of density (scalar metric) perturbations and gravitational waves (tensor metric perturbations). Detection of a stochastic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky

We explore some particle physics implications of the growing evidence for a helical primordial magnetic field (PMF). From the interactions of magnetic monopoles and the PMF, we derive an upper bound on the monopole number density, $n(t_0) <…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew J. Long , Tanmay Vachaspati

It was recently demonstrated that the evolution of helical magnetic field in the primordial plasma at temperatures $T\gtrsim10$ MeV is affected by the phenomenon of chiral quantum anomaly in the electroweak model, leading to a possibility…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Oleksandr Tomalak , Yuri Shtanov

A primordial degree of circular polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background is not observationally excluded. The hypothesis of primordial dichroism can be quantitatively falsified if the plasma is magnetized prior to photon decoupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Massimo Giovannini

Measurements of the Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) polarization could provide evidence for the existence of primordial magnetic fields. The Faraday rotation could also allow the study of some properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Campanelli , A. D. Dolgov , M. Giannotti , F. L. Villante

A primordial cosmological magnetic field induces and supports vorticity or Alfven waves, which in turn generate cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. A homogeneous primordial magnetic field with fixed direction induces…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gang Chen , Pia Mukherjee , Tina Kahniashvili , Bharat Ratra , Yun Wang

I describe the imprint of primordial magnetic fields on the CMB. I show that these are observable only if the field amplitude is of the order of $B\gsim 10^{-9}G$ on Mpc scale. I further argue that such fields are strongly constrained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ruth Durrer

A cosmological gauge field with isotropic stress-energy introduces parity violation into the behavior of gravitational waves. We show that a primordial spectrum of inflationary gravitational waves develops a preferred handedness, left- or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Jannis Bielefeld , Robert R. Caldwell

We consider a novel contribution to the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background induced by vector and tensor modes generated by the non-linear evolution of primordial scalar perturbations. Our calculation is based on relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Silvia Mollerach , Diego Harari , Sabino Matarrese

The most studied mechanism of inflationary magnetogenesis relies on the time-dependence of the coefficient of the gauge kinetic term $F_{\mu\nu}\,{F}^{\mu\nu}$. Unfortunately, only extremely finely tuned versions of the model can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chiara Caprini , Lorenzo Sorbo

An inhomogeneous cosmological magnetic field creates vortical perturbations that survive Silk damping on much smaller scales than compressional modes. This ensures that there is no sharp cut-off in anisotropy on arc-minute scales. As we had…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kandaswamy Subramanian , John D. Barrow

We discuss inverse problem of detection turbulence magnetic field helical properties using radio survey observations statistics. In this paper, we present principal solution which connects magnetic helicity and correlation between Faraday…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-19 A. Volegova , R. Stepanov

We investigate the gravitational wave production induced by the primordial magnetic fields in a parity-violating magnetogenesis model. It is shown that the gravitational waves detectable by LISA, DECIGO or BBO and the magnetic fields strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 So Okano , Tomohiro Fujita

Helicity and \alpha effect driven by the nonaxisymmetric Tayler instability of toroidal magnetic fields in stellar radiation zones are computed. In the linear approximation a purely toroidal field always excites pairs of modes with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Ruediger , L. L. Kitchatinov , D. Elstner

In the primordial plasma, at temperatures above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, the presence of chiral asymmetries is expected to induce the development of helical hypermagnetic fields through the phenomenon of chiral plasma…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-10 Axel Brandenburg , Emma Clarke , Tina Kahniashvili , Andrew J. Long , Guotong Sun