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A complete 3D numerical study of the effects of pseudoscalar–photon mixing on quasar polarizations

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We present the results of three-dimensional simulations of quasar polarizations in the presence of pseudoscalar–photon mixing in the intergalactic medium. The intergalactic magnetic field is assumed to be uncorrelated in wave vector space but correlated in real space. Such a field may be obtained if its origin is primordial. Furthermore we assume that the quasars, located at cosmological distances, have negligible initial polarization. In the presence of pseudoscalar–photon mixing we show, through a direct comparison with observations, that this may explain the observed large scale alignments in quasar polarizations within the framework of big bang cosmology. We find that the simulation results give a reasonably good fit to the observed data.

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Agarwal, N., Aluri, P.K., Jain, P. et al. A complete 3D numerical study of the effects of pseudoscalar–photon mixing on quasar polarizations. Eur. Phys. J. C 72, 1928 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1928-y

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