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Investigating the source of Planck-detected AME: high resolution observations at 15 GHz

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

The Planck 28.5 GHz maps were searched for potential Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) regions on the scale of 3\sim3^{\circ} or smaller, and several new regions of interest were selected. Ancillary data at both lower and higher frequencies were used to construct spectral energy distributions (SEDs), which seem to confirm an excess consistent with spinning dust models. Here we present higher resolution observations of two of these new regions with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Small Array (AMI SA) between 14 and 18 GHz to test for the presence of a compact (\sim10 arcmin or smaller) component. For AME-G107.1+5.2, dominated by the {\sc Hii} region S140, we find evidence for the characteristic rising spectrum associated with the either the spinning dust mechanism for AME or an ultra/hyper-compact \textsc{Hii} region across the AMI frequency band, however for AME-G173.6+2.8 we find no evidence for AME on scales of 210\sim 2-10 arcmin.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5346,
  title  = {Investigating the source of Planck-detected AME: high resolution observations at 15 GHz},
  author = {Yvette C. Perrott and Anna M. M. Scaife and Natasha Hurley-Walker and Keith J. B. Grainge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5346},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Submitted to Advances in Astronomy AME Special Issue