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      Response to ``Comment on `Primordial magnetic seed field amplification by gravitational waves' "

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          Here we respond to the comment by Tsagas (gr-qc/0503042) on our paper gr-qc/0503006. We show that the results in that comment are flawed and cannot be used for drawing conclusion about the nature of magnetic field amplification by gravitational waves, and give further support that the results of gr-qc/0503006 are correct.

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          On inhomogeneous magnetic seed fields and gravitational waves within the MHD limit

          Peter Dunsby, Mattias Marklund, Caroline Zunckel … (2006)
          In this paper we apply second-order gauge-invariant perturbation theory to investigate the possibility that the non-linear coupling between gravitational waves (GW) and a large scale inhomogeneous magnetic field acts as an amplification mechanism in an `almost' Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) Universe. The spatial inhomogeneities in the magnetic field are consistently implemented using the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) approximation, which yields an additional source term due to the interaction of the magnetic field with velocity perturbations in the plasma. Comparing the solutions with the corresponding results in our previous work indicates that, on super-horizon scales, the interaction with the spatially inhomogeneous field in the dust regime induces the same boost as the case of a homogeneous field, at least in the ideal MHD approximation. This is attributed to the observation that the MHD induced part of the generated field effectively only contributes on scales where the coherence length of the initial field is less than the Hubble scale. At sub-horizon scales, the GW induced magnetic field is completely negligible in relation to the MHD induced field. Moreover, there is no amplification found in the long-wavelength limit.
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            Primordial magnetic seed field amplification by gravitational waves

            Mattias Marklund, Peter Dunsby, Caroline Zunckel … (2005)
            Using second-order gauge-invariant perturbation theory, a self-consistent framework describing the non-linear coupling between gravitational waves and a large-scale homogeneous magnetic field is presented. It is shown how this coupling may be used to amplify seed magnetic fields to strengths needed to support the galactic dynamo. In situations where the gravitational wave background is described by an `almost' Friedmann-Lema{\^i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology we find that the magnitude of the original magnetic field is amplified by an amount proportional to the magnitude of the gravitational wave induced shear anisotropy and the square of the field's initial co-moving scale. We apply this mechanism to the case where the seed field and gravitational wave background are produced during inflation and find that the magnitude of the gravitational boost depends significantly on the manner in which the estimate of the shear anisotropy at the end of inflation is calculated. Assuming a seed field of \(10^{-34}\) \(\rm{G}\) spanning a comoving scale of about \(10 \rm{kpc}\) today, the shear anisotropy at the end of inflation must be at least as large as \(10^{-40}\) in order to obtain a generated magnetic field of the same order of magnitude as the original seed. Moreover, contrasting the weak field approximation to our gauge-invariant approach, we find that while both methods agree in the limit of high conductivity, their corresponding solutions are otherwise only compatible in the limit of infinitely long-wavelength gravitational waves.
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              Publication date Created: 19 February 2007
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              DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.087902
              ArXiV ID: gr-qc/0702104
              SO-VID: 8c305e86-63c8-4df5-8d32-c7af132efb9a
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              Journal reference Phys.Rev.D75:087902,2007
              Comments 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Physical Review D
              Categories gr-qc astro-ph

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