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Primordial Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Microwave Background

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Magnetic fields could play an important role in determining the parameters of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation). If there were significant primordial fields our interpretation of the spectrum of anisotropies of temperature and polarization which we use to estimate the parameter defining a cosmological model would require modification. For such an influence to be detected primordial commoving magnetic field strengths in the range 10–9–10–8 Gauss are needed, values compatible with at least some of the astrophysical restrictions.Magnetic fields contribute to the energy-momentum tensor and are therefore a source of curvature. The LSS (Last Scattering Surface) could be crossed by radiation energy density filaments, inheritors of primordial magnetic flux tubes. The possibilities of measuring magnetic field within the space mission Planck are examined here.

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Battaner, E., Florido, E. (2012). Primordial Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Microwave Background. In: Lehner, C., Renn, J., Schemmel, M. (eds) Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics. Einstein Studies, vol 12. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4940-1_14

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