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We discuss the influence of gravitational waves (GWs) upon the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). We show how to compute the {\em rms} temperature anisotropy and polarisation of the CMBR induced by GWs of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 R. A. Frewin , A. G. Polnarev , P. Coles

This paper presents an analysis of the radiation seen by an observer in circular acceleration, for a magnetic spin. This is applied to an electron in a storage ring, and the subtilty of the interaction of the spin with the spatial motion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. G. Unruh

It is shown that a collection of photons with nearly the same frequency exhibits a Bose "condensation" type of phenomenon at about 3 degrees K corresponding to a peak intensity at a wave length of about 0.4cm. This could give a mechanism…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

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

Relativistic antiparticles can be created in high-energy nuclear interactions; thus, detection of antiparticles in an astrophysical source can tell us something remarkable about the underlying high-energy processes and nuclear interactions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Gregory Fleishman , Alexander Altyntsev , Nataliia Meshalkina

We have updated our analysis of the 9-year WMAP data using the collection of polarization maps looking for the presence of additional evidence for a finite 'cosmic ray foreground' for the CMB. We have given special attention to high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Tadeusz Wibig , Arnold W. Wolfendale

Gravitational wave bursts with memory (BWMs) can generate measurable, long-lived frequency shifts and permanent angular deflections in distant sources of light. These perturbations vary across the sky with a characteristic spatial pattern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Dustin R. Madison

The polarization of the CMB offers a potentially valuable probe of the physics of the early universe, specifically of the velocity of the photon-baryon fluid on the last scattering surface. Here we discuss qualitatively the correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Crittenden

It is likely that the observed distribution of the microwave background temperature over the sky is only one realization of the underlying random process associated with cosmological perturbations of quantum-mechanical origin. If so, one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 L. P. Grishchuk , Jérôme Martin

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, intense flashes of radio waves from unidentified extragalactic sources. Polarized FRBs originate in highly magnetized environments. We report observations of the repeating FRB 20190520B spanning seventeen…

The circular polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is usually taken to be zero since it is not generated by Thomson scattering. Here we explore the actual level of circular polarization in the CMB generated by conventional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Christopher M. Hirata

Inflation provides a unified paradigm for understanding the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the flatness problem, and the origin of large-scale structure. Although the physics responsible for inflation is not yet well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marc Kamionkowski

We discuss a minimal canonical modification of electrodynamics in order to account for ultraviolet Lorentz violating effects. This modification creates a birefringence that rotates the polarization planes from different directions. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Gamboa , J. Lopez-Sarrion , A. P. Polychronakos

Weak lensing distortion of the background cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns by the foreground density fluctuations is well studied in the literature. We discuss the gravitational lensing modification to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chao Li , Asantha Cooray

It is shown that small-scale magnetic fields present before recombination induce baryonic density inhomogeneities of appreciable magnitude. The presence of such inhomogeneities changes the ionization history of the Universe, which in turn…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Karsten Jedamzik , Tom Abel

The intensive cosmological creation of vector W, Z- bosons in the cosmological model with the relative units is considered. Field theoretical models are studied, which predict that the CMB radiation and the baryon matter in the universe can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 D. B. Blaschke , S. I. Vinitsky , A. A. Gusev , V. N. Pervushin , D. V. Proskurin

The self-organization of magnetospheric plasma is brought about by inward diffusion of magnetized particles. Not only creating a density gradient toward the center of a dipole magnetic field, the inward diffusion also accelerates particles…

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

We propose a radiation source based on a magnetic mirror cavity. Relativistic electrons are simulated entering the cavity and their trajectories and resulting emission spectra are calculated. The uniformity of the particle orbits is found…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Amol R. Holkundkar , Chris Harvey

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy may result from both scalar and tensor perturbations. For a sufficiently narrow range of angular scales, CMB perturbations can be characterized by four parameters. Results from the Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Scott Dodelson , Lloyd Knox , Edward W. Kolb