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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 368, 期 2, 页码 965-970出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10178.x
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magnetic fields; stars : formation; galaxies : formation; cosmology : theory; large-scale structure of Universe
Early reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM), which is favoured from the WMAP temperature-polarization cross-correlations, contests the validity of the standard scenario of structure formation in the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogony. It is difficult to achieve early enough star formation without rather extreme assumptions such as a very high escape fraction of ionizing photons from protogalaxies or a top-heavy initial mass function (IMF). Here, we propose an alternative scenario that additional fluctuations on small scales induced by primordial magnetic fields trigger early structure formation. We found that ionizing photons from Population III stars formed in dark haloes can easily reionize the Universe by z similar or equal to 15 if the strength of primordial magnetic is between 0.7 and 1.5 x 10(-9) G.
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