scholarly journals A novel constraint on the Primordial Magnetic Fields using 21-cm line absorption signal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teppei Minoda ◽  
Hiroyuki Tashiro ◽  
Tomo Takahashi
2019 ◽  
Vol 488 (2) ◽  
pp. 2001-2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teppei Minoda ◽  
Hiroyuki Tashiro ◽  
Tomo Takahashi

Abstract The recent observation of the 21-cm global absorption signal by EDGES suggests that the intergalactic medium (IGM) gas has been cooler than the cosmic microwave background during 15 ≲ z ≲ 20. This result can provide a strong constraint on heating sources for the IGM gas at these redshifts. In this paper we study the constraint on the primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) by the EDGES result. The PMFs can heat the IGM gas through their energy dissipation due to the magnetohydrodynamic effects. By numerically solving the thermal evolution of the IGM gas with the PMFs, we find that the EDGES result gives a stringent limit on the PMFs as B1 Mpc ≲ 10−10 G.


2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael S. de Souza ◽  
Reuven Opher

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Emami ◽  
Hassan Firouzjahi ◽  
M. Sadegh Movahed

2002 ◽  
Vol 542 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da-Shin Lee ◽  
Wolung Lee ◽  
Kin-Wang Ng

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