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Variations in the dust emissivity are critical for gas mass determinations derived from far-infrared observations, but also for separating dust foreground emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Hi-GAL observations allow us for…

Aims: Contamination from bright diffuse Galactic thermal and non-thermal radio emission poses crucial challenges in experiments aiming to measure the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. If not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 B. K. Gehlot , L. V. E. Koopmans , A. R. Offringa , H. Gan , R. Ghara , S. K. Giri , M. Kuiack , F. G. Mertens , M. Mevius , R. Mondal , V. N. Pandey , A. Shulevski , R. A. M. J. Wijers , S. Yatawatta

We present observations and CMB foreground analysis of the Parkes Galactic Meridian Survey (PGMS), an investigation of the Galactic latitude behaviour of the polarized synchrotron emission at 2.3 GHz with the Parkes Radio Telescope. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Carretti , M. Haverkorn , D. McConnell , G. Bernardi , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , S. Cortiglioni , S. Poppi

The low frequency tail of the CMB spectrum, down along the radio range (~1 GHz), may carry weak spectral distortions which are fingerprints of processes occurred during different epochs of the thermal history of the Universe, from z~3\times…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 Andrea Tartari , Mario Zannoni , Massimo Gervasi , Giorgio Sironi , Sebastiano Spinelli

We present a study of diffuse extragalactic radio emission at $1.75\,$GHz from part of the ELAIS-S1 field using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The resulting mosaic is $2.46\,$deg$^2$, with a roughly constant noise region of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 T. Vernstrom , Ray P. Norris , Douglas Scott , J. V. Wall

Multi-frequency, polarimetric VLA observations of the non-thermal filaments (NTF's), G0.08+0.15, and G359.96+0.09, also known as the Northern and Southern Threads are presented at 20, 6, 3.6 and 2 cm, with high enough spatial resolution to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cornelia C. Lang , Mark Morris , Luis Echevarria

The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) was designed to study diffuse emission from hot gas in the local interstellar cavity in the wavelength range 90 - 265 A. Between launch in January 2003 and early 2004, the instrument…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hurwitz , T. P. Sasseen , M. M. Sirk

We present an analysis of simultaneous multifrequency measurements of the Galactic emission in the 1-10 GHz range with 18 degrees, angular resolution taken from a high altitude site. Our data yield a determination of the synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Platania , M. Bensadoun , M. Bersanelli , G. De Amici , A. Kogut , S. Levin , D. Maino , G. F. Smoot

We performed GMRT low frequency observations of the radio halos, relics and new candidates belonging to the GMRT Radio Halo Cluster Sample first observed at 610 MHz. High sensitivity imaging was performed using the GMRT at 325 MHz and 240…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tiziana Venturi , Simona Giacintucci , Daniele Dallacasa , Rossella Cassano , Gianfranco Brunetti , Giulia Macario , Ramana Athreya

We have analysed the Rhodes/HartRAO survey at 2326 MHz and derived the global angular power spectrum of Galactic continuum emission. In order to measure the angular power spectrum of the diffuse component, point sources were removed from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Giardino , A. J. Banday , P. Fosalba , K. M. Gorski , J. L. Jonas , W. O'Mullane , J. Tauber

The knowledge of the origin and statistical properties of diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters has appreciably improved thanks to the GMRT Radio Halo Survey, a project based on 610 MHz observations of clusters belonging to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-10 Simona Giacintucci

ISO observations at 200 micron have modified our view of the dust component in spiral galaxies. For a sample of seven resolved spirals we have retrieved a mean temperature of 20K, about 10K lower than previous estimates based on IRAS data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Bianchi , Paul B. Alton , Jonathan I. Davies

Context: Observations of polarized emission are a significant source of information on the magnetic field that pervades the Interstellar Medium of the Galaxy. Despite the acknowledged importance of the magnetic field in interstellar…

The Galactic diffuse soft gamma-ray (30-800 keV) emission has been measured from the Galactic Center by the HIREGS balloon-borne germanium spectrometer to determine the spectral characteristics and origin of the emission. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Boggs , R. P. Lin , S. Slassi-Sennou , W. Coburn , R. M. Pelling

We present an all-sky map of the synchrotron spectral index and curvature between 45 and 2300 MHz at a resolution of 1 degree calculated from a combination of numerous partial sky empirical measurements. We employ a least-squares parametric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Melis O. Irfan , Giuseppe Puglisi

We present new measurements of the diffuse radio emission from the Coma cluster of galaxies at 1.4 GHz using the Effelsberg 100-m-telescope. The halo source Coma C has an extent down to noise of about 80 arcmin corresponding to 3 Mpc (H_0 =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Deiss , W. Reich , H. Lesch , R. Wielebinski

We present preliminary results of TRIS, an experiment dedicated to the search of deviations from a pure planckian distribution in the spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background at frequencies close to 1 GHz

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sironi , E. Battistelli , G. Boella , F. Cavaliere , M. Gervasi , A. Passerini , A. Tartari , M. Zannoni

Spectral index images can be used to constraint the energy spectrum of relativistic electrons and magnetic field distribution in radio halos and relics, providing useful information to understand their formation, evolution and connection to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Orru' , M. Murgia , L. Feretti , F. Govoni , G. Brunetti , G. Giovannini , M. Girardi , G. Setti , .

In the next few years the classification of radio sources observed by the large surveys will be a challenging problem, and spectral index is a powerful tool for addressing it. Here we present an algorithm to estimate the spectral index of…

INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI data from the first year of the Galactic Centre Deep Exposure has been analysed for the diffuse continuum from the Galactic ridge. A new catalogue of sources from the INTEGRAL Imager IBIS has been used to account…