PRIMORDIAL MAGNETIC FIELDS

DOI10.1142/S0218271898000243MaRDI QIDQ4939681zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kari Enqvist

Publication date 27 February 2000

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803196

zbMATH Keywords

dynamo explanation of galactic magnetic fieldsgalactic magnetic fieldsprimordial magnetic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The explanation of the observed galactic magnetic fields may require the existence of a primordial magnetic field. Such a field may arise during the early cosmological phase transitions, or because of other particle physics related phenomena in the very early universe reviewed here. The turbulent evolution of the initial, randomly fluctuating microscopic field to a large-scale macroscopic field can be described in terms of a shell model, which provides an approximation to the complete magnetohydrodynamics. The results indicate that there is an inverse cascade of magnetic energy whereby the coherence of the magnetic field is increased by many orders of magnitude. Cosmological seed fields roughly of the order of $10^{-20}$ G at the scale of protogalaxy, as required by the dynamo explanation of galactic magnetic fields, thus seem plausible.

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