Nonlinear Evolution of Cosmic Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies

Abstract

In this work we investigate the effects of the primordial magnetic fields on cosmic microwave background anisotropies (CMB). Based on cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations we calculate the CMB anisotropy spectra and polarization induced by fluid fluctuations (Alfvén modes) generated by primordial magnetic fields. The strongest effect on the CMB spectra comes from the transition epoch from a turbulent regime to a viscous regime. The balance between magnetic and kinetic energy until the onset of the viscous regime provides a one to one relation between the comoving coherence length $L$ and the comoving magnetic field strength $B$, such as $L\sim 30(B/10^{-9}\mathrm{G}{)}^3\mathrm{pc}$. The resulting CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies are somewhat different from the ones previously obtained by using linear perturbation theory. Our calculation gives a constraint on the magnetic field strength in the intermediate scale of CMB observations. Upper limits are set by WMAP and BOOMERANG results for comoving magnetic field strength of $B<28\mathrm{nG}$ with a comoving coherence length of $L>0.7\mathrm{Mpc}$ for the most extreme case, or $B<30\mathrm{nG}$ and $L>0.8\mathrm{Mpc}$ for the most conservative case.

arXiv commentaccepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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