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Title: Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields

Abstract

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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  1. Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC (Australia). School of Physics
  2. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1524230
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 846; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmic background radiation; early universe; magnetic fields; polarization

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Sutton, Dylan R., Feng, Chang, and Reichardt, Christian L. Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e2.
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Sutton, Dylan R., Feng, Chang, & Reichardt, Christian L. Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e2
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Sutton, Dylan R., Feng, Chang, and Reichardt, Christian L. Sun . "Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e2. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1524230.
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@article{osti_1524230,
title = {Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields},
author = {Sutton, Dylan R. and Feng, Chang and Reichardt, Christian L.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e2},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 846,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Sun Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Current measurements of the CMB B-mode power spectrum. The black line shows the expected B-mode power spectrum in the Planck best-fit ΛCDM cosmology (with the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ set to 0.01). The data sets are from POLARBEAR (black circles; the POLARBEAR Collaboration, Ade et al. 2014); ACTpol (darkmore » green triangles; Naess et al. 2014); BICEP2/Keck Array (red diamonds; Keck Array & BICEP2 Collaborations, Ade et al. 2016); and SPTpol (purple squares; Keisler et al. 2015). The B-mode measurements used for the limits in this work are denoted with filled symbols. Current B-mode measurements are noise-limited at all angular multipoles; the next generation of experiments will significantly increase the signal-to-noise on the B-mode power spectrum.« less
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