Cosmic microwave background polarization signals from tangled magnetic fields.
Tangled, primordial cosmic magnetic fields create small rotational velocity perturbations on the last scattering surface of the cosmic microwave background radiation. For fields which redshift to a present value of B0 = 3 x 10(-9) G, these vector modes are shown to generate polarization anisotropies of order 0.1-4 microK on small angular scales (500<l<2000), assuming delta function or a power law spectra with n = -1. About 200 times larger signals result for n = 2 spectra. Unlike inflation generated, scalar modes, these signals are dominated by the odd parity, B-type polarization, which could help in their detection.
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Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211019, India.
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