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Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are magnetic fields generated during the early universe. These fields are thought to be the seeds of extragalactic magnetic fields. The origin of PMFs is not well known. Further, if they are indeed sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ganga R. Nair , V. Sreenath

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

A symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe could have led to the formation of cosmic defects. Because these defects dynamically excite not only scalar and tensor type cosmological perturbations but also vector type ones,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kouichirou Horiguchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Naoshi Sugiyama

Microgauss magnetic fields are observed in all galaxies at low and high redshifts. The origin of these intense magnetic fields is a challenging question in astrophysics. We show here that the natural plasma fluctuations in the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Rafael S. de Souza , R. Opher

Cosmological magnetic fields induce temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. A cosmological magnetic field with current amplitude of order $10^{-9}$ G is detectable via observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tina Kahniashvili , Bharat Ratra , ;

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) play a pivotal role in influencing small-scale fluctuations within the primordial density field, thereby enhancing the matter power spectrum within the context of the $\Lambda$CDM model at small scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Qile Zhang , Shang Li , Xiu-Hui Tan , Jun-Qing Xia

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) may significantly influence 21-cm physics via two mechanisms: (i) magnetic heating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) through ambipolar diffusion (AD) and decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (DT), (ii)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Arko Bhaumik , Debarun Paul , Supratik Pal

A generation of magnetic fields from cosmological density perturbations is investigated. In the primordial plasma before cosmological recombination, all of the materials except dark matter in the universe exist in the form of photons,…

Observations of $\gamma$-ray from blazars suggest the presence of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium, which may require a primordial origin. Intense enough primordial magnetic fields can arise from theories of dynamical electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Martin Arteaga Tupia , Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia

We calculate the evolution of linear density and temperature perturbations in a universe with dark matter, baryons, and radiation, from cosmic recombination until the epoch of the first galaxies. In addition to gravity, the perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Smadar Naoz , Rennan Barkana

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

Primordial magnetic fields (PMF) can enhance baryon perturbations on scales below the photon mean free path. However, a magnetically driven baryon fluid becomes turbulent near recombination, thereby damping out baryon perturbations below…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Pranjal Ralegankar

The explanation of the observed galactic magnetic fields may require the existence of a primordial magnetic field. Such a field may arise during the early cosmological phase transitions, or because of other particle physics related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kari Enqvist

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) may explain observations of magnetic fields on extragalactic scales. They are most cleanly constrained by measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) anisotropies. Their effects on cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Karsten Jedamzik , Tom Abel , Yacine Ali-Haimoud

Magnetic fields with field strengths between $10^{-17}\,$G and a few Nanogauss are expected to exist today in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Their origin is unknown, but may be of primordial nature, in which case they would have influenced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Gaétan Facchinetti , Alexander Korochkin , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Justus Schwagereit

(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

There are at present more then 30 theories about the origin of cosmic magnetic fields at galactic and intergalactic scales. Most of them rely on concepts of elementary particle physics, like phase transitions in the early Universe, string…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Battaner , H. Lesch

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

Primordial Magnetic Fields (PMFs), long studied as relics of the early Universe, accelerate recombination and have been proposed as a way to relieve the Hubble tension. However, previous studies relied on simplified toy models. Here we use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Karsten Jedamzik , Levon Pogosian , Tom Abel

The magnetic fields we observe in galaxies today may have their origins in the very early universe. While a number of mechanisms have been proposed which lead to an appreciable field amplitude at early times, the subsequent evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean M. Carroll , George B. Field