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Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can enhance matter power spectrum on small scales ($\lesssim$ Mpc) and still agree with bounds from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Faraday rotation measurements. As modes on scales smaller than Mpc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Pranjal Ralegankar , Mak Pavičević , Matteo Viel

The effect of primordial magnetic fields on X-ray or S-Z galaxy cluster survey is investigated. After recombination, the primordial magnetic fields generate additional density fluctuations. Such density fluctuations enhance the number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki

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

The first galaxies that formed at a redshift ~20-30 emitted continuum photons with energies between the Lyman-alpha and Lyman limit wavelengths of hydrogen, to which the neutral universe was transparent except at the Lyman-series…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

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

Fluctuations in the 21cm brightness from cosmic hydrogen at redshifts z > 6 were sourced by the primordial density perturbations from inflation as well as by the radiation from galaxies. We propose a method to separate these components…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

The origin of large scale magnetic fields is one of the most puzzling topics in cosmology and astrophysics. It is assumed that the observed magnetic fields result from the amplification of an initial field produced in the early universe. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-18 Hector J. Hortua , Leonardo Castañeda

Cosmology requires new physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles and fields. What is the fundamental physics behind dark matter and dark energy? What generated the initial fluctuations in the early Universe? Polarised light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Eiichiro Komatsu

Perturbations to the cosmic baryon density - and thus to the total-matter density - can be induced by magnetohydronamic forces if there are primordial magnetic fields. The power spectrum for these density perturbations was first provided in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Tal Adi , Hector Cruz , Marc Kamionkowski

Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have extended the measured power spectrum to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and there appears to be possible evidence for excess power on small angular scales. The primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 D. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino , G. J. Mathews

The high-temperature plasma above the electroweak scale $\sim 100$ GeV may have contained a primordial hypercharge magnetic field whose anomalous coupling to the fermions induces a transformation of the hypermagnetic energy density into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Giovannini , M. E. Shaposhnikov

We investigate the effects of the background primordial magnetic field (PMF) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The sound speed of the tightly coupled photon-baryon fluid is increased by the background PMF. The increased sound speed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Dai G. Yamazaki

Primordial magnetic fields (PMF) damp at scales smaller than the photon diffusion and free-streaming scale. This leads to heating of ordinary matter (electrons and baryons), which affects both the thermal and ionization history of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Jens Chluba , Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , Jose-Alberto Rubino-Martin

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can enhance the abundance of low-mass halos during Cosmic Dawn by sourcing additional small-scale matter fluctuations. This enhanced small-scale power can accelerate early galaxy formation, shifting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Keduse Worku , Hector Afonso G. Cruz , Marc Kamionkowski

Magnetic fields have been observed in galaxies, clusters of galaxies and probably in superclusters. While mechanisms exist to generate these in the late universe, it is possible that magnetic fields have existed since very early times. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-07 Iain A. Brown

We study primordial magnetic field effects on the matter perturbations in the Universe. We assume magnetic field generation prior to the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), i.e. during the radiation dominated epoch of the Universe expansion,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tina Kahniashvili , Yurii Maravin , Aravind Natarajan , Nicholas Battaglia , Alexander G. Tevzadze

Blazar observations point toward the possible presence of magnetic fields over intergalactic scales of the order of up to $\sim1\,$Mpc, with strengths of at least $\sim10^{-16}\,$G. Understanding the origin of these large-scale magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Arthur Kosowsky , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

From previous studies of the effect of primordial magnetic fields on early structure formation, we know that the presence of primordial magnetic fields during early structure formation could induce more perturbations at small scales (at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kanhaiya L. Pandey , Shiv K. Sethi

The origin of cosmic magnetic fields is an unsolved problem and magnetogenesis could have occurred in the early Universe. We study the evolution of such primordial magnetic fields across the cosmological recombination epoch via 3D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Pranjal Trivedi , Johannes Reppin , Jens Chluba , Robi Banerjee

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