Published July 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

CMB anisotropy due to tangled magnetic fields in reionized models

  • 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

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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

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