کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10722262 1033730 2012 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Gravitational instability of the primordial plasma: Anisotropic evolution of structure seeds
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک هسته ای و انرژی بالا
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Gravitational instability of the primordial plasma: Anisotropic evolution of structure seeds
چکیده انگلیسی
We study how the presence of a background magnetic field, of intensity compatible with current observation constraints, affects the linear evolution of cosmological density perturbations at scales below the Hubble radius. The magnetic field provides an additional pressure that can prevent the growth of a given perturbation; however, the magnetic pressure is confined only to the plane orthogonal the field. As a result, the “Jeans length” of the system not only depends on the wavelength of the fluctuation but also on its direction, and the perturbative evolution is anisotropic. We derive this result analytically and back it up with direct numerical integration of the relevant ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations during the matter-dominated era. Before recombination, the kinetic pressure dominates and the perturbations evolve in the standard way, whereas after that time magnetic pressure dominates and we observe the anisotropic evolution. We quantify this effect by estimating the eccentricity ϵ of a Gaussian perturbation in the coordinate space that was spherically symmetric at recombination. For a perturbations at the sub-galactic scale, we find that ϵ=0.7 at z=10 taking the background magnetic field of order 10−9 gauss.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physics Letters B - Volume 718, Issue 2, 5 December 2012, Pages 255-264
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