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    Ade, P A R; Aghanim, N; Arnaud, M; Arroja, F; Ashdown, M; Aumont, J; Baccigalupi, C; Ballardini, M; Banday, A J

    Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 10/2016, Letnik: 594
    Journal Article

    We compute and investigate four types of imprint of a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies: the impact of PMFs on the CMB temperature and polarization spectra, which is related to their contribution to cosmological perturbations; the effect on CMB polarization induced by Faraday rotation; the impact of PMFs on the ionization history; magnetically-induced non-Gaussianities and related non-zero bispectra; and the magnetically-induced breaking of statistical isotropy. We present constraints on the amplitude of PMFs that are derived from different Planck data products, depending on the specific effect that is being analysed. Overall, Planck data constrain the amplitude of PMFs to less than a few nanoGauss, with different bounds that depend on the considered model. In particular, individual limits coming from the analysis of the CMB angular power spectra, using the Planck likelihood, are B sub(1 Mpc)< 4.4 nG (where B sub(1 Mpc) is the comoving field amplitude at a scale of 1Mpc) at 95% confidence level, assuming zero helicity. By considering the Planck likelihood, based only on parity-even angular power spectra, we obtain B sub(1 Mpc)< 5.6 nG for a maximally helical field. For nearly scale-invariant PMFs we obtain B sub(1 Mpc)< 2.0nG and B sub(1 Mpc)< 0.9nG if the impact of PMFs on the ionization history of the Universe is included in the analysis. From the analysis of magnetically-induced non-Gaussianity, we obtain three different values, corresponding to three applied methods, all below 5nG. The constraint from the magnetically-induced passive-tensor bispectrum is B sub(1 Mpc)< 2.8nG. A search for preferred directions in the magnetically-induced passive bispectrum yields B sub(1 Mpc)< 4.5nG, whereas the compensated-scalar bispectrum gives B sub(1 Mpc)< 3nG. The analysis of the Faraday rotation of CMB polarization by PMFs uses the Planck power spectra in EE and BB at 70GHz and gives B sub(1 Mpc)< 1380nG. In our final analysis, we consider the harmonic-space correlations produced by Alfven waves, finding no significant evidence for the presence of these waves. Together, these results comprise a comprehensive set of constraints on possible PMFs with Planck data.