Galactic foregrounds and CMB polarization
Abstract
The CMB polarization promises to unveil the dawn of time measuring the gravitational wave background emitted by the Inflation. The CMB signal is faint, however, and easily contaminated by the Galactic foreground emission, accurate measurements of which are thus crucial to make CMB observations successful. We review the CMB polarization properties and the current knowledge on the Galactic synchrotron emission, which dominates the foregrounds budget at low frequency. We then focus on the S-Band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS), a recently completed survey of the entire southern sky designed to investigate the Galactic CMB foreground.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.4983,
title = {Galactic foregrounds and CMB polarization},
author = {E. Carretti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4983},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
13 pages, 10 figures, to appear in "The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey," ASP Conference Series