Cyclotron emission effect on CMB spectral distortions

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2006-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601259v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 2 figures; accepted for the publication on Astronomische Nachrichten; Proceedings of International Conference "The Or

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.200610547

We investigated the role of the cyclotron emission (CE) associated to cosmic magnetic fields (MF) on the evolution of cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectral distortions. We computed the photon and energy injection rates by including spontaneous and stimulated emission and absorption. These CE rates have been compared with those of bremsstrahlung (BR) and double Compton scattering (DC), for realistic CMB distorted spectra at various cosmic epochs. For reasonable MF strengths we found that the CE contribution to the evolution of the CMB spectrum is much smaller than the BR and DC contributions. The constraints on the energy exchanges at various redshifts can be then derived, under quite general assumptions, by considering only Compton scattering (CS), BR, and DC, other than the considered dissipation process. Upper limits to the CMB polarization degree induced by CE have been estimated.

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