Photon-Axion mixing in an inhomogeneous universe

Details Photon-Axion mixing in an inhomogeneous universe Photon-Axion mixing in an inhomogeneous universe

2002-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207525v3

Phys.Lett. B565 (2003) 10-18

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 5 figures. Density matrix method implemented. Main results unchanged. Accepted in PLB

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00641-5

We consider the dimming of photons from high redshift type 1a supernovae by mixing with a pseudoscalar axion field in the intergalactic medium. We model the electron density using a lognormal probability distribution and assume frozen in magnetic fields. Assuming the magnetic fields are produced in the early universe we are unable to obtain sufficient dimming in order to explain the apparent acceleration without violating the bounds on the frequency dependence of the dimming. We also show that any axion mixing leading to a reduction in optical luminosities would also lead to a significant reduction in the polarisation of UV light from intermediate redshift objects which may be detected in the future.

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