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We present deep 1.4 GHz source counts from $\sim$5 deg$^2$ of the continuum Early Science data release of the MeerKAT International Gigahertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey down to $S_{1.4\textrm{GHz}}\sim$15 $\mu$Jy.…

Analyses of measurements of the distribution of absolute brightness temperature over the radio sky have led recently to suggestions that there exists a substantial unexplained extragalactic radio background. Consequently, there have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ravi Subrahmanyan , Ramanath Cowsik

If the radio background is coming from cosmological sources, there should be some amount of clustering due to the large scale structure in the universe. Simple models for the expected clustering combined with the recent measurement by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 Gilbert Holder

We use the radio-infrared (IR) flux correlation bet ween star-forming galaxies in the local universe to derive a simple analytical expression between the intensity of the IR background and the brightness t emperature of the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eli Dwek , Michael K. Barker

A balloon-borne experiment has measured the absolute temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) at 10.7 GHz to be Tcmbr = 2.730 +- .014 K. The error is the quadratic sum of several systematic errors, with statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. T. Staggs , N. C. Jarosik , S. S. Meyer , D. T. Wilkinson

Using the 2MASS 2nd Incremental Data Release and the Zodiacal-Subtracted Mission Average maps of COBE/DIRBE, we estimate the cosmic background in the J (1.25 micron) and K (2.2 microns) bands using selected areas representing 550 square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Cambresy , W. T. Reach , C. A. Beichman , T. H. Jarrett

Contribution of resolved and unresolved extragalactic point sources to the low-frequency sky spectrum is a potentially non-negligible part of the astrophysical foregrounds for cosmic dawn 21-cm experiments. The clustering of such point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni , Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

The origin of the radio synchrotron background (RSB) is currently unknown. Its understanding might have profound implications in fundamental physics or might reveal a new class of radio emitters. In this work, we consider the scenario in…

Measurements from the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission 2 (ARCADE-2) reveal a strong radio background in the GHz frequency range. Since the cosmological 21-cm signal is measured relative to the background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sudipta Sikder , Rajesh Mondal , Rennan Barkana , Anastasia Fialkov

We present an extensive analysis on the determination of the isotropic radio background. We consider six different radio maps, ranging from 22 MHz to 2.3 GHz and covering a large fraction of the sky. The large scale emission is modeled as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Nicolao Fornengo , Roberto A. Lineros , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

The extragalactic background is composed of the emission from all astrophysical sources, both resolved and unresolved, in addition to any diffuse components. In the last decade, there has been significant progress in our understanding of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Jonathan Biteau

We present an updated estimate of the cosmic radio background (CRB) and the corresponding attenuation lengths for ultra-high energy photons. This new estimate provides associated uncertainties as a function of frequency derived from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 I. C. Niţu , H. T. J. Bevins , J. D. Bray , A. M. M. Scaife

Our present understanding of the extragalactic source counts and background radiation at infrared and sub-mm wavelengths is reviewed. Available count data are used to constrain evolutionary models of galaxies and Active Nuclei. The CIRB, on…

The fields chosen for the first observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array have been surveyed with the Ryle Telescope at 15 GHz. We have covered three regions around RA 00h20m Dec +30deg, RA 09h40m Dec +32deg…

The Cosmic InfraRed Background (CIRB) is the sum total of the redshifted and reprocessed short wavelength radiation from the era of galaxy formation, and hence contains vital information about the history of galactic evolution. One of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Gorjian , E. L. Wright , R. R. Chary

The mean absolute brightness temperature of the diffuse radio background was measured as a function of frequency in a continuous band between 100 and 200 MHz over an effective solid angle of ~pi str at high Galactic latitude. A spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman

Recent measurements of the temperature of the sky in the radio band, combined with literature data, have convincingly shown the existence of a cosmic radio background with an amplitude of $\sim 1$ K at 1 GHz and a spectral energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 Pier Paolo Ponente , Yago Ascasibar , Jose Maria Diego

The ARCADE2 and LWA1 experiments have claimed an excess over the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at low radio frequencies. If the cosmological high-redshift contribution to this radio background is between 0.1% and 22% of the CMB at 1.42…

Despite an intense theoretical and experimental effort over the past decade, observations of the extragalactic radio background at multiple frequencies below 10 GHz are not understood in terms of known radio sources, and may represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Maxim Pospelov , Joshua T. Ruderman

We estimate the level of confusion to Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy measurements caused by extragalactic infrared sources. CMB anisotropy observations at high resolution and high frequencies are especially sensitive to this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Gawiser , George F. Smoot