Challenges for creating magnetic fields by cosmic defects

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2007-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1667v2

Phys.Rev.D77:063517,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections and additions; accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.063517

We analyse the possibility that topological defects can act as a source of magnetic fields through the Harrison mechanism in the radiation era. We give a detailed relativistic derivation of the Harrison mechanism at first order in cosmological perturbations, and show that it is only efficient for temperatures above T ~ 0.2 keV. Our main result is that the vector metric perturbations generated by the defects cannot induce vorticity in the matter fluids at linear order, thereby excluding the production of currents and magnetic fields. We show that anisotropic stress in the matter fluids is required to source vorticity and magnetic fields. Our analysis is relevant for any mechanism whereby vorticity is meant to be transferred purely by gravitational interactions, and thus would also apply to dark matter or neutrinos.

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