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Relaxing the Bounds on Primordial Magnetic Seed Fields

arXiv:astro-ph/9904022 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.021301

Abstract

We point out that the lower bound on the primordial magnetic field required to seed the galactic dynamo is significantly relaxed in an open universe or in a universe with a positive cosmological constant. It is shown that, for reasonable cosmological parameters, primordial seed fields of strength 10^{-30} Gauss or less at the time of galaxy formation could explain observed galactic magnetic fields. As a consequence, mechanisms of primordial magnetic seed-field generation that have previously been ruled out could well be viable. We also comment on the implications of the observation of micro-Gauss magnetic fields in galaxies at high redshift.

5 pages, revtex, 5 figures

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