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Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropies from the large-N limit of global defects
Elisa Fenu, Daniel G. Figueroa, Ruth Durrer +2
We determine the full C_l spectra and correlation functions of the temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB, generated by a source modeled by the large N limit of spont…
A large scale coherent magnetic field: interactions with free streaming particles and limits from the CMB
Julian Adamek, Ruth Durrer, Elisa Fenu +1
We study a homogeneous and nearly-isotropic Universe permeated by a homogeneous magnetic field. Together with an isotropic fluid, the homogeneous magnetic field, which is the prima…
The seed magnetic field generated during recombination
Elisa Fenu, Cyril Pitrou, Roy Maartens
Nonlinear dynamics creates vortical currents when the tight-coupling approximation between photons and baryons breaks down around the time of recombination. This generates a magnet…
The local B-polarization of the CMB: a very sensitive probe of cosmic defects
Juan Garcia-Bellido, Ruth Durrer, Elisa Fenu +2
We present a new and especially powerful signature of cosmic strings and other topological or non-topological defects in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).…
Gravitational waves from self-ordering scalar fields
Elisa Fenu, Daniel G. Figueroa, Ruth Durrer +1
Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of these gravitational wave…
Can the observed large scale magnetic fields be seeded by helical primordial fields?
Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer, Elisa Fenu
Gravitational wave production induces a strong constraint on the amplitude of a primordial magnetic field. It has been shown that the nucleosynthesis bound for a stochastic gravita…