Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields

Sutton, Dylan R.; Feng, Chang; Reichardt, Christian L.

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e2

Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields

Journal Article · Sun Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e2· OSTI ID:1524230

Sutton, Dylan R. ^[1]; Feng, Chang ^[2]; ^[1]

Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC (Australia). School of Physics
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Here, we present new limits on the amplitude of potential primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) using temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Planck, the BICEP2/Keck Array, Polarbear, and SPTpol. We reduce twofold the 95% confidence upper limit on the CMB anisotropy power due to a nearly scale-invariant PMF, with an allowed B-mode power at ℓ = 1500 of $${D}_{{\ell }=1500}^{\mathrm{BB}}\lt 0.071\,\mu {K}^{2}$$ for Planck versus $${D}_{{\ell }=1500}^{\mathrm{BB}}\lt 0.034\,\mu {K}^{2}$$ for the combined data set. We also forecast the expected limits from soon-to-deploy CMB experiments (like SPT-3G, Adv. ACTpol, or the Simons Array) and the proposed CMB-S4 experiment. Future CMB experiments should dramatically reduce the current uncertainties by one order of magnitude for the near-term experiments and two orders of magnitude for the CMB-S4 experiment. The constraints from CMB-S4 have the potential to rule out much of the parameter space for PMFs.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1524230

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22875807

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 846; ISSN 1538-4357

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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