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 explicitly and show that a large scale coherent field induces correlations between and . We discuss constraints on amplitude and spectrum of a primordial magnetic field imposed by observations of CMB anisotropies.
Cite
@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