Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-07-17
Phys.Rev.D62:101501,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
5 pages RevTex, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.101501
We consider the dynamics of electromagnetic fields in an almost-Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe using the covariant and gauge-invariant approach of Ellis and Bruni. Focusing on the situation where deviations from the background model are generated by tensor perturbations only, we demonstrate that the coupling between gravitational waves and a weak magnetic test field can generate electromagnetic waves. We show that this coupling leads to an initial pulse of electromagnetic waves whose width and amplitude is determined by the wavelengths of the magnetic field and gravitational waves. A number of implications for cosmology are discussed, in particular we calculate an upper bound of the magnitude of this effect using limits on the quadrapole anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Brodin Gert
Dunsby Peter K. S.
Marklund Mattias
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