Reply to 'Comment on 'Primordial magnetic seed field amplification by gravitational waves''

Journal Article · Sun Apr 15 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.087902· OSTI ID:21020450

Betschart, Gerold ^[1]; Zunckel, Caroline ^[2]; Dunsby, Peter K S ^[3]; Marklund, Mattias ^[4]

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1. Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, 91904 Jerusalem (Israel)
2. Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
3. Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch (South Africa)
4. Department of Physics, Umeaa University, SE-901 87 Umeaa (Sweden)

Here we respond to the comment by Tsagas on our earlier paper. We show that the results in that comment are flawed and cannot be used for drawing conclusions about the nature of magnetic field amplification by gravitational waves and give further support that the results of our earlier paper are correct.

• OSTI ID: 21020450
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 75; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
AMPLIFICATION
COSMOLOGY
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY