CMB anisotropy due to tangled magnetic fields in reionized models
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 (India)
- 2. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007 (India)
Description
Primordial tangled cosmological Magnetic Fields source rotational velocity perturbations of the baryon fluid, even in the post-recombination universe. These vortical modes inturn leave a characteristic imprint on the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), if the CMB photons can be rescattered after recombination. Observations from WMAP indicate that the Universe underwent a relatively early reionization (zri∼15), which does indeed lead to a significant optical depth for rescattering of CMB photons after the reionization epoch. We compute the resulting additional temperature anisotropies, induced by primordial magnetic fields in the post-recombination universe. We show that in models with early reionization, a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of tangled magnetic fields which redshift to a present value of B0∼3x10-9 Gauss, produce vector mode perturbations which in turn induce additional temperature anisotropy of about 0.3 to 0.4 μK over very small angular scales, with l upto ∼10000 or so
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023004;
- arXiv
- arXiv:astro-ph/0504007v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 72
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 023004-023004.7
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37025478
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANISOTROPY; BARYONS; COSMOLOGY; DISTURBANCES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; RECOMBINATION; RELICT RADIATION; RESCATTERING; UNIVERSE; VECTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; TENSORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society