GRAVITOMAGNETIC INSTABILITIES IN ANISOTROPICALLY EXPANDING FLUIDS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0804127XzbMATH Open1159.83375arXiv0806.4362MaRDI QIDQ3623324FDOQ3623324

Authors: Loukas Vlahos, K. Kleidis, Apostolos Kuiroukidis, Demetrios Papadopoulos 

Publication date: 17 April 2009

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

Abstract: Gravitational instabilities in a magnetized Friedman - Robertson - Walker (FRW) Universe, in which the magnetic field was assumed to be too weak to destroy the isotropy of the model, are known and have been studied in the past. Accordingly, it became evident that the external magnetic field disfavors the perturbations' growth, suppressing the corresponding rate by an amount proportional to its strength. However, the spatial isotropy of the FRW Universe is not compatible with the presence of large-scale magnetic fields. Therefore, in this article we use the general-relativistic (GR) version of the (linearized) perturbed magnetohydrodynamic equations with and without resistivity, to discuss a generalized Jeans criterion and the potential formation of density condensations within a class of homogeneous and anisotropically expanding, self-gravitating, magnetized fluids in curved space-time. We find that, for a wide variety of anisotropic cosmological models, gravito-magnetic instabilities can lead to sub-horizonal, magnetized condensations. In the non-resistive case, the power spectrum of the unstable cosmological perturbations suggests that most of the power is concentrated on large scales (small k), very close to the horizon. On the other hand, in a resistive medium, the critical wave-numbers so obtained, exhibit a delicate dependence on resistivity, resulting in the reduction of the corresponding Jeans lengths to smaller scales (well bellow the horizon) than the non-resistive ones, while increasing the range of cosmological models which admit such an instability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4362

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fieldsmagnetohydrodynamicscosmological perturbationsdynamo effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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