Cosmic Magnetic Fields from Recombination to Reionization

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May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.3004j&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #30.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.867

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Cosmic magnetic fields, present at the time around recombination, may have an important impact on the early formation of small-scale structure in the universe by non-gravitational means. A summary of the relevant physical scales entering into the dynamics of a magnetized cosmic baryon fluid and presently known observational constraints on the existence of such fields are given. It is shown that for observationally allowed field strength of B ~ 10(-9) Gauss (scaled to the present) local baryon over-densities, delta rho_b /rho_b, as large as ~ 10 - 10(3) on comoving scales of ~ 100pc - 1kpc may be dynamically generated by magnetic fields even before the epoch of recombination. Non-linear baryon clustering on larger spatial scales may occur after recombination. The significant impact which such baryonic clumping may have on galaxy formation, reionization, and the intergalactic medium is discussed.

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