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Microwave Background Anisotropies from Alfven waves

Astrophysics 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We investigate microwave background anisotropies in the presence of primordial magnetic fields. We show that a homogeneous field with fixed direction can amplify vector perturbations. We calculate the correlations of δT/T\delta T/T explicitly and show that a large scale coherent field induces correlations between a1,ma_{\ell-1,m} and a+1,ma_{\ell+1,m}. We discuss constraints on amplitude and spectrum of a primordial magnetic field imposed by observations of CMB anisotropies.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807089,
  title  = {Microwave Background Anisotropies from Alfven waves},
  author = {Ruth Durrer and Tina Kahniashvili and Andrew Yates},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807089},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 page LaTeX file, 4 postscript figs. included, submitted to PRD

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