28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

Observing primordial helical magnetic fields?

7 Dec 2015, 17:35

20m

Level -1, Room 16 (International Conference Centre Geneva)

Talk 10 - Cosmic magnetic fields

Speaker

Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

Description

I review briefly the story how blazar data were used to set limit lower limits on space-filling magnetic fields. Then I discuss critically the possibility to find signatures of helical magnetic fields by this method.