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Statistical properties of galactic CMB foregrounds: dust and synchrotron

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-06-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Recent Planck observations have revealed some of the important statistical properties of synchrotron and dust polarisation, namely, the BB to EE mode power and temperature-EE (TE) mode cross-correlation. In this paper, we extend our analysis in Kandel et al. (2017) that studied BB to EE mode power ratio for polarised dust emission to include TE cross-correlation and develop an analogous formalism for synchrotron signal, all using a realistic model of magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. Our results suggest that the Planck results for both synchrotron and dust polarisation can be understood if the turbulence in the Galaxy is sufficiently sub-Alfv\'enic. We also show how BB to EE ratio as well as the TE cross-correlation can be used to study media magnetisation, compressibility, and level of density-magnetic field correlation.

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@article{arxiv.1711.03161,
  title  = {Statistical properties of galactic CMB foregrounds: dust and synchrotron},
  author = {D. Kandel and A. Lazarian and D. Pogosyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03161},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to MNRAS