%0 Journal Article
%T Picogauss magnetic fields in voids from ultra-high energy cosmic rays
%A M. S. Pshirkov
%A P. G. Tinyakov
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X We argue that ultra-high energy cosmic rays emitted by galaxy clusters result in electric currents in filaments of the large-scale structure that are sufficient to generate magnetic fields in voids of the magnitude of ~1e-12 G and the coherence length of up to tens of Mpc. These fields satisfy both the lower and upper observational bounds on magnetic fields in voids without a need of any primordial component.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4371v2