Natwariya, Pravin KumarPravin KumarNatwariyaBhatt, Jitesh R.Jitesh R.Bhatt2025-08-312025-08-312020-02-1310.1093/mnrasl/slaa1082-s2.0-85092018135https://repository.iitgn.ac.in/handle/IITG2025/24223We study the 21-cm differential brightness temperature in the presence of primordial helical magnetic fields for redshift z = 10-30. We argue that the α-effect that sets in at earlier time can be helpful in lowering the gas temperature to 3.2 K at z = 17. This effect can arise in the early Universe due to some parity-violating high-energy processes. Using the EDGES (Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature) results, we find the upper and lower limits on the primordial magnetic field to be 6 × 10-3 and 5 × 10-4 nG, respectively. We also discuss the effect of Ly α background on the bounds. Our results do not require any new physics in terms of dark matter.falsecosmology: observations | dark ages, reionization, first stars | dark matter | magnetic fields | MHDArticlehttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.0019417453933L35-L3913 February 20201111WOS:000574920100007