Planck 2015 results. XXV. Diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds
Abstract
(abridged) We discuss the Galactic foreground emission between 20 and 100GHz based on observations by Planck/WMAP. The Commander component-separation tool has been used to separate the various astrophysical processes in total intensity. Comparison with RRL templates verifies the recovery of the free-free emission along the Galactic plane. Comparison of the high-latitude Halpha emission with our free-free map shows residuals that correlate with dust optical depth, consistent with a fraction (~30%) of Halpha having been scattered by high-latitude dust. We highlight a number of diffuse spinning dust morphological features at high latitude. There is substantial spatial variation in the spinning dust spectrum, with the emission peak ranging from below 20GHz to more than 50GHz. There is a strong tendency for the spinning dust component near many prominent HII regions to have a higher peak frequency, suggesting that this increase in peak frequency is associated with dust in the photodissociation regions around the nebulae. The emissivity of spinning dust in these diffuse regions is of the same order as previous detections in the literature. Over the entire sky, the commander solution finds more anomalous microwave emission than the WMAP component maps, at the expense of synchrotron and free-free emission. This can be explained by the difficulty in separating multiple broadband components with a limited number of frequency maps. Future surveys (5-20GHz), will greatly improve the separation by constraining the synchrotron spectrum. We combine Planck/WMAP data to make the highest S/N ratio maps yet of the intensity of the all-sky polarized synchrotron emission at frequencies above a few GHz. Most of the high-latitude polarized emission is associated with distinct large-scale loops and spurs, and we re-discuss their structure...
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@article{arxiv.1506.06660,
title = {Planck 2015 results. XXV. Diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds},
author = {Planck Collaboration and P. A. R. Ade and N. Aghanim and M. I. R. Alves and M. Arnaud and M. Ashdown and J. Aumont and C. Baccigalupi and A. J. Banday and R. B. Barreiro and J. G. Bartlett and N. Bartolo and E. Battaner and K. Benabed and A. Benoit and A. Benoit-Levy and J. -P. Bernard and M. Bersanelli and P. Bielewicz and J. J. Bock and A. Bonaldi and L. Bonavera and J. R. Bond and J. Borrill and F. R. Bouchet and F. Boulanger and M. Bucher and C. Burigana and R. C. Butler and E. Calabrese and J. -F. Cardoso and A. Catalano and A. Challinor and A. Chamballu and R. -R. Chary and H. C. Chiang and P. R. Christensen and S. Colombi and L. P. L. Colombo and C. Combet and F. Couchot and A. Coulais and B. P. Crill and A. Curto and F. Cuttaia and L. Danese and R. D. Davies and R. J. Davis and P. de Bernardis and A. de Rosa and G. de Zotti and J. Delabrouille and J. -M. Delouis and F. -X. Desert and C. Dickinson and J. M. Diego and H. Dole and S. Donzelli and O. Dore and M. Douspis and A. Ducout and X. Dupac and G. Efstathiou and F. Elsner and T. A. Ensslin and H. K. Eriksen and E. Falgarone and J. Fergusson and F. Finelli and O. Forni and M. Frailis and A. A. Fraisse and E. Franceschi and A. Frejsel and S. Galeotta and S. Galli and K. Ganga and T. Ghosh and M. Giard and Y. Giraud-Heraud and E. Gjerlow and J. Gonzalez-Nuevo and K. M. Gorski and S. Gratton and A. Gregorio and A. Gruppuso and J. E. Gudmundsson and F. K. Hansen and D. Hanson and D. L. Harrison and G. Helou and S. Henrot-Versille and C. Hernandez-Monteagudo and D. Herranz and S. R. Hildebrandt and E. Hivon and M. Hobson and W. A. Holmes and A. Hornstrup and W. Hovest and K. M. Huffenberger and G. Hurier and A. H. Jaffe and T. R. Jaffe and W. C. Jones and M. Juvela and E. Keihanen and R. Keskitalo and T. S. Kisner and R. Kneissl and J. Knoche and M. Kunz and H. Kurki-Suonio and G. Lagache and A. Lahteenmaki and J. -M. Lamarre and A. Lasenby and M. Lattanzi and C. R. Lawrence and J. P. Leahy and R. Leonardi and J. Lesgourgues and F. Levrier and M. Liguori and P. B. Lilje and M. Linden-Vornle and M. Lopez-Caniego and P. M. Lubin and J. F. Macias-Perez and G. Maggio and D. Maino and N. Mandolesi and A. Mangilli and M. Maris and D. J. Marshall and P. G. Martin and E. Martinez-Gonzalez and S. Masi and S. Matarrese and P. McGehee and P. R. Meinhold and A. Melchiorri and L. Mendes and A. Mennella and M. Migliaccio and S. Mitra and M. -A. Miville-Deschenes and A. Moneti and L. Montier and G. Morgante and D. Mortlock and A. Moss and D. Munshi and J. A. Murphy and P. Naselsky and F. Nati and P. Natoli and C. B. Netterfield and H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen and F. Noviello and D. Novikov and I. Novikov and E. Orlando and C. A. Oxborrow and F. Paci and L. Pagano and F. Pajot and R. Paladini and D. Paoletti and B. Partridge and F. Pasian and G. Patanchon and T. J. Pearson and M. Peel and O. Perdereau and L. Perotto and F. Perrotta and V. Pettorino and F. Piacentini and M. Piat and E. Pierpaoli and D. Pietrobon and S. Plaszczynski and E. Pointecouteau and G. Polenta and G. W. Pratt and G. Prezeau and S. Prunet and J. -L. Puget and J. P. Rachen and W. T. Reach and R. Rebolo and M. Reinecke and M. Remazeilles and C. Renault and A. Renzi and I. Ristorcelli and G. Rocha and C. Rosset and M. Rossetti and G. Roudier and J. A. Rubino-Martin and B. Rusholme and M. Sandri and D. Santos and M. Savelainen and G. Savini and D. Scott and M. D. Seiffert and E. P. S. Shellard and L. D. Spencer and V. Stolyarov and R. Stompor and A. W. Strong and R. Sudiwala and R. Sunyaev and D. Sutton and A. -S. Suur-Uski and J. -F. Sygnet and J. A. Tauber and L. Terenzi and L. Toffolatti and M. Tomasi and M. Tristram and M. Tucci and J. Tuovinen and G. Umana and L. Valenziano and J. Valiviita and B. Van Tent and M. Vidal and P. Vielva and F. Villa and L. A. Wade and B. D. Wandelt and R. Watson and I. K. Wehus and A. Wilkinson and D. Yvon and A. Zacchei and A. Zonca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06660},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Planck collaboration paper XXV from 2015 results. Accepted for publication in A&A. Corresponding authors: Clive Dickinson and Paddy Leahy. 46 pages, 33 figures