Cosmological magnetic fields from nonlinear effects

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2007-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701596v2

Phys.Rev.D75:103501,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages; v2: Estimate of the magnetic field computed; minor corrections and improvements

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.103501

In the standard cosmological model, magnetic fields and vorticity are generated during the radiation era via second-order density perturbations. In order to clarify the complicated physics of this second-order magnetogenesis, we use a covariant approach and present the electromagneto-dynamical equations in the nonlinear regime. We use the tight-coupling approximation to analyze Thomson and Coulomb scattering. At the zero-order limit of exact tight-coupling, we show that the vorticity is zero and no magnetogenesis takes place at any nonlinear order. We show that magnetogenesis also fails at all orders if either protons or electrons have the same velocity as the radiation, and momentum transfer is neglected. Then we prove a key no-go result: at first-order in the tight-coupling approximation, magnetic fields and vorticity still cannot be generated even via nonlinear effects. The tight-coupling approximation must be broken at first order, for the generation of vorticity and magnetic fields, and we derive a closed set of nonlinear evolution equations that governs this generation. We estimate that the amplitude of the magnetic field at recombination on the horizon scale is $\sim 10^{-27} $G.

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