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Helical intergalactic magnetic fields at the $\sim 10^{-14}~{\rm G}$ level on $\sim 10~{\rm Mpc}$ length scales are indicated by current gamma ray observations. The existence of magnetic fields in cosmic voids and their non-trivial helicity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Tanmay Vachaspati

Magnetic fields in the universe potentially serve as a messenger of primordial physics. The observationally suggested intergalactic magnetic fields may be a relic of helical primordial $\mathrm{U}(1)_Y$ magnetic fields, which may also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Yuta Hamada , Kyohei Mukaida , Fumio Uchida

Possible existence of the primordial magnetic fields has affected the structure formation of the universe. In this paper it is shown that the initial conditions for density perturbations with magnetic fields derived in previous works are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Kazuhiko Kojima , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The cosmic microwave background anisotropy is sensitive to the slope and amplitude of primordial energy density and gravitational wave fluctuations, the baryon density, the Hubble constant, the cosmological constant, the ionization history,…

The cosmological magnetic field is one of the important physical quantities which affect strongly the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum. Recent CMB observations have been extended to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. G. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino

This paper presents a complete analysis of the effects of second order gravitational perturbations on Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies, taking explicitly into account scalar, vector and tensor modes. We also consider the second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Silvia Mollerach , Sabino Matarrese

We study the imprint of a coupling of scalar dark energy to photon on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The time-evolving field value as well as the perturbation of the scalar generically induce $B$-mode polarization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Seokcheon Lee , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

The V-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background is discussed in a weakly magnetized plasma. The VV and VT angular power spectra are computed for adiabatic initial conditions of the Einstein-Boltzmann hierarchy. Depending upon the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Massimo Giovannini

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is our richest source of cosmological information; the standard cosmological model was largely established thanks to study of the temperature anisotropies. By the end of the decade, the Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James G. Bartlett

A magnetic field, coherent over the horizon size at the decoupling and strong enough to rotate the polarization plane of the CMBR, can be generated from the electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations amplified by the space-time evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 Massimo Giovannini

Cosmological vector fields are central to many early-Universe phenomena, including inflationary dynamics, primordial magnetogenesis, and dark-matter scenarios. However, constructing models able to generate cosmological magnetic fields while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 H. V. Ragavendra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , L. Sriramkumar

A primordial magnetic field in the early universe will cause Faraday rotation of the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background generated via Compton scattering at the surface of last scattering. This rotation induces a non-zero…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Tina Kahniashvili , Yurii Maravin , Arthur Kosowsky

In recent years, new high spatial resolution observations of the Sun's atmosphere have revealed the presence of a plethora of small-scale magnetic elements down to the resolution limit of current cohort of solar telescopes ($\sim 100-120$…

An inhomogeneous cosmological magnetic field will create Alfven-wave modes that induce a small rotational velocity perturbation on the last scattering surface of the microwave background radiation. The Alfven-wave mode survives Silk damping…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Kandaswamy Subramanian , John D. Barrow

Helicity measures complexity in the field. Magnetic helicity is given by a volume integral over the scalar product of magnetic field {\bf B} and its vector potential {\bf A}. A direct computation of magnetic helicity in the solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

(abridged) A detailed examination of the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields between high cosmic temperatures and the present epoch is presented. A simple analytical model matching the results of the 3D MHD simulations allows for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robi Banerjee , Karsten Jedamzik

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) create a large squeezed-type non-Gaussianity in tensor perturbation, which generates non-Gaussian temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We for the first time derive an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Maresuke Shiraishi , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

On a basis of extensive analytical and numerical studies we show that a linear-polarized microwave field creates a stationary magnetization in mesoscopic ballistic quantum dots with two-dimensional electron gas being at a thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Chepelianskii , D. L. Shepelyansky

In this paper we study the effects of hemispheric imbalance of magnetic helicity density on breaking the equatorial reflection symmetry of the dynamo generated large-scale magnetic field. Our study employs the axisymmetric dynamo model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 S. Yang , V. V. Pipin , D. D. Sokoloff , K. M. Kuzanyan , H. Zhang

We perform direct numerical simulations to compute the net circular polarization of gravitational waves from helical (chiral) turbulent sources in the early Universe for a variety of initial conditions, including driven (stationary) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol