Extragalactic magnetic fields unlikely generated at the electroweak phase transition

被引:16
作者
Wagstaff, Jacques M. [1 ]
Banerjee, Robi [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hamburg, Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
来源
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2016年 / 01期
关键词
primordial magnetic fields; extragalactic magnetic fields; Magnetohydrodynamics; cosmological phase transitions; TEV BLAZARS; RADIATION; EVOLUTION; BUBBLES; GROWTH;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/002
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In this paper we show that magnetic fields generated at the electroweak phase transition are most likely too weak to explain the void magnetic fields apparently observed today unless they have considerable helicity. We show that, in the simplest estimates, the helicity naturally produced in conjunction with the baryon asymmetry is too small to explain observations, which require a helicity fraction at least of order 10(-14)-10(-10) depending on the void fields constraint used. Therefore new mechanisms to generate primordial helicity are required if magnetic fields generated during the electroweak phase transition should explain the extragalactic fields.
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