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Birefringence, CMB polarization and magnetized B-mode
Massimo Giovannini, Kerstin E. Kunze
Even in the absence of a sizable tensor contribution, a B-mode polarization can be generated because of the competition between a pseudo-scalar background and pre-decoupling magnet…
Cosmic polarimetry in magnetoactive plasmas
Massimo Giovannini, Kerstin E. Kunze
Polarimetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents one of the possible diagnostics aimed at testing large-scale magnetism at the epoch of the photon decoupling. The pr…
Faraday rotation, stochastic magnetic fields and CMB maps
Massimo Giovannini, Kerstin E. Kunze
The high- and low-frequency descriptions of the pre-decoupling plasma are deduced from the Vlasov-Landau treatment generalized to curved space-times and in the presence of the rela…
CMB polarization induced by stochastic magnetic fields
Massimo Giovannini, Kerstin E. Kunze
The complete calculation of the CMB polarization observables (i.e. E- and B-modes) is reported within the conventional CDM paradigm supplemented by a stochastic magnetic field.…
Generalized CMB initial conditions with pre-equality magnetic fields
Massimo Giovannini, Kerstin E. Kunze
The most general initial conditions of CMB anisotropies, compatible with the presence of pre-equality magnetic fields, are derived. When the plasma is composed by photons, baryons,…