Microwave background anisotropies from Alfvén waves
- 17 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 58 (12)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.58.123004
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 the amplitude and spectrum of a primordial magnetic field imposed by observations of CMB anisotropies.
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