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Primordial magnetic field limits from cosmological data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-10-27 v1

Abstract

We study limits on a primordial magnetic field arising from cosmological data, including that from big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave background polarization plane Faraday rotation limits, and large-scale structure formation. We show that the physically-relevant quantity is the value of the effective magnetic field, and limits on it are independent of how the magnetic field was generated.

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@article{arxiv.1009.2094,
  title  = {Primordial magnetic field limits from cosmological data},
  author = {Tina Kahniashvili and Alexander G. Tevzadze and Shiv K. Sethi and Kanhaiya Pandey and Bharat Ratra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2094},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures

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