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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 107, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.103536
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Compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) are long-lived perturbations to the primordial baryon density that are accompanied by dark matter density perturbations. In this study, it is shown that the interaction between the CIP-induced modulation of the electron number density and the electron-temperature fluctuation associated with primordial adiabatic perturbations can produce a magnetic field in the postrecombinaton Universe. This magnetic field could potentially serve as a seed for galactic dynamos.
Compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) are perturbations to the primordial baryon density that are accompanied by dark-matter-density perturbations so that the total matter density is unperturbed. Such CIPs, which may arise in some multifield inflationary models, can be long-lived and only weakly constrained by current cosmological measurements. Here we show that the CIP-induced modulation of the electron number density interacts with the electron-temperature fluctuation associated with primordial adiabatic perturbations to produce, via the Biermann-battery mechanism, a magnetic field in the postrecombinaton Universe. Assuming the CIP amplitude saturates the current BBN bounds, this magnetic field can be stronger than 10-15 nG at z similar or equal to 20 and stronger by an order of magnitude than that (produced at second order in the adiabatic-perturbation amplitude) in the standard cosmological model, and thus can serve as a possible seed for galactic dynamos.
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