Cosmological magnetic fields: their generation, evolution and observation

R Durrer, A Neronov - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2013 - Springer
We review the possible mechanisms for the generation of cosmological magnetic fields,
discuss their evolution in an expanding Universe filled with the cosmic plasma and provide a …

The gamma-ray window to intergalactic magnetism

R Alves Batista, A Saveliev - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the most promising ways to probe intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs) is through
gamma rays produced in electromagnetic cascades initiated by high-energy gamma rays or …

Planck 2015 results-XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields

PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud, F Arroja… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We compute and investigate four types of imprint of a stochastic background of primordial
magnetic fields (PMFs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies: the …

Planck 2015 results-III. LFI systematic uncertainties

PAR Ade, J Aumont, C Baccigalupi, AJ Banday… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We present the current accounting of systematic effect uncertainties for the Low Frequency
Instrument (LFI) that are relevant to the 2015 release of the Planck cosmological results …

Acceleration of the charged particles due to chaotic scattering in the combined black hole gravitational field and asymptotically uniform magnetic field

Z Stuchlík, M Kološ - The European Physical Journal C, 2016 - Springer
To test the role of large-scale magnetic fields in accretion processes, we study the dynamics
of the charged test particles in the vicinity of a black hole immersed into an asymptotically …

Circular orbits and related quasiharmonic oscillatory motion of charged particles around weakly magnetized rotating black holes

A Tursunov, Z Stuchlík, M Kološ - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We study the motion of charged particles in the field of a rotating black hole immersed into
an external asymptotically uniform magnetic field, focusing on the epicyclic quasicircular …

Scalar perturbations from inflation in the presence of gauge fields

R Durrer, R von Eckardstein, D Garg, K Schmitz… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study how Abelian-gauge-field production during inflation affects scalar perturbations in
the case when the gauge field interacts with the inflaton directly (by means of generic kinetic …

Inflationary magnetogenesis without the strong coupling problem

RJZ Ferreira, RK Jain, MS Sloth - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The simplest gauge invariant models of inflationary magnetogenesis are known to suffer
from the problems of either large backreaction or strong coupling, which make it difficult to …

Small scale induced gravitational waves from primordial black holes, a stringent lower mass bound, and the imprints of an early matter to radiation transition

N Bhaumik, RK Jain - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
In all inflationary scenarios of primordial black hole (PBH) formation, amplified scalar
perturbations inevitably accompany an induced stochastic gravitational wave background …

Universal constraints on axions from inflation

RZ Ferreira, MS Sloth - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract We consider the presence of an axion like particle, σ, with a generic CP violating
axial coupling of the form (ασ/f)\(F\tilde {F}\), where F μν is the gauge field strength of a …