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As one of the prime contributors to the interstellar medium energy budget, magnetic fields naturally play a part in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Galactic magnetic fields can originate from strong primordial magnetic fields provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt , Carlos Gómez-Guijarro

The origin of our universe's cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery. In this study, we consider whether these magnetic fields could have been generated in the early universe by a population of charged, spinning primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic

We study the cosmic evolution of the magnetic fields of a large sample of spiral galaxies in a cosmologically representative volume by employing a semi-analytic galaxy formation model and numerical dynamo solver in tandem. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-03 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , Carlton M. Baugh , A. Russ Taylor

The magnetic fields of spiral galaxies are so strong that they cannot be primordial. Their typical values are over one billion times higher than any value predicted for the early Universe. Explaining this immense growth and incorporating it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Evangelia Ntormousi , Konstantinos Tassis , Fabio Del Sordo , Francesca Fragkoudi , Rüdiger Pakmor

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

In the paper [4] is presented a theory which unifies the gravitation theory and the mechanical effects, which is different from the Riemannian theories like GTR. Moreover it is built in the style of the electomagnetic field theory. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kostadin Trencevski

The generation of primordial magnetic fields from cosmological phase transitions is discussed, paying particular attention to the electroweak transition and to the various definitions of the `average' field that have been put forward. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Mark Hindmarsh , Allen Everett

Mechanisms of generation of magnetic fields in the early universe which could seed the present-day large scale galactic magnetic fields, are briefly reviewed. Three possible ways to create large scale magnetic fields are discussed: breaking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 A. D. Dolgov

We study the primordial magnetic field generated by stochastic currents produced by scalar charged particles created at the beginning of the radiation dominated epoch. We find that for the mass range 10^(-6)GeV \leq m \leq 10^2 GeV, a field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Esteban A. Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance compatible with observational limits may realistically take place in the context of string theories, possibly endowing the photon with a mass. In this process the conformal symmetry of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 O. Bertolami , D. F. Mota

We demonstrate that the MSSM flat directions can naturally account for the seed magnetic fields in the early Universe. The non-zero vacuum expectation value of an MSSM flat direction condensate provides masses to the gauge fields and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist , Asko Jokinen , Anupam Mazumdar

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are possible candidates for explaining the observed magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Two competing scenarios of primordial magnetogenesis have been discussed in the literature: inflationary and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-17 Salome Mtchedlidze , Paola Domínguez-Fernández , Xiaolong Du , Wolfram Schmidt , Axel Brandenburg , Jens Niemeyer , Tina Kahniashvili

Magnetic fields in galaxies are believed to be the result of dynamo amplification of initially weak seed fields, reaching equipartition strength inside the interstellar medium. The small-scale dynamo appears to be a viable mechanism to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

In the context of nonminimally coupled $f(R)$ gravity theories, we study early inflation driven by a nonlinear monopole magnetic field which is nonminimally coupled to curvature. In order to isolate the effects of the nonminimal coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-05 Giovanni Otalora , Ali Övgün , Joel Saavedra , Nelson Videla

Primordial magnetic fields of cosmologically interesting field strengths can be generated from gravitationally coupled electrodynamics during inflation. As the cosmological constraints require this to be power law inflation it is not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 Kerstin E. Kunze

We investigate the origin and evolution of primordial electric and magnetic fields in the early universe, when the expansion is governed by a cosmological constant $\Lambda_0$. Using the gravitoelectromagnetic inflationary formalism with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-06 Federico Agustin Membiela , Mauricio Bellini

We discuss the inflationary production of magnetic seeds for the galactic dynamo through the photon-graviphoton mixing typical of extended models of local supersymmetry. An analisys of the allowed region in parameter space shows that such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Gasperini

The conformal symmetry of the quantized electromagnetic field breaks down in curved space-time. We point out that this conformal anomaly is able to generate a sizable magnetic field during a phase of slow-roll inflation. Such primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-24 Ivan Agullo , Jose Navarro-Salas

Using the generally covariant magnetofluid formalism for a hot plasma, a new curvature (of space time) driven mechanism for generating seed vorticity/magnetic field is presented. The "battery" owes its origin to the interaction between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-09 Swadesh M. Mahajan , Felipe A. Asenjo

We propose a new mechanism for the generation of primordial magnetic fields, making use of the magnetic fields which are induced by anomalous global strings which couple to electromagnetism via Wess-Zumino type interactions. This mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-06 Robert H. Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang