The cosmic microwave background temperature bispectrum from scalar perturbations induced by primordial magnetic fields
arXiv:0903.1420 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/021
Abstract
We evaluate the angular bispectrum of the CMB temperature anisotropy at large angular scale due to a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields. The shape of non-Gaussianity depends on the spectral index of the magnetic field power spectrum and is peaked in the squeezed configuration for a scale-invariant magnetic spectrum. By using the large angular part of the bispectrum generated by magnetic fields, the present bounds on non-Gaussianity set a limit on the amplitude of the primordial magnetic field of the order of 10 nGauss for the scale-invariant case and 20 nGauss for the other spectral indexes.
Replaced with revised version accepted for publication in JCAP
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