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We report absolutely calibrated measurements of diffuse radio emission between 90 and 190 MHz from the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES). EDGES employs a wide beam zenith-pointing dipole antenna centred on a declination…

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We present the Bayesian Global Sky Model (B-GSM), a new absolutely calibrated model of the diffuse Galactic foreground at frequencies below 408 MHz. We assemble a dataset of publicly available diffuse emission maps at frequencies between 45…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 George Carter , Will Handley , Mark Ashdown , Nima Razavi-Ghods

We report the spectral index of diffuse radio emission between 50 and 100 MHz from data collected with two implementations of the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES) low-band system. EDGES employs a wide beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 Thomas J. Mozdzen , Nivedita Mahesh , Raul A. Monsalve , Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman

We present a precision measurement of radio sky brightness over 60-350 MHz. Accurate knowledge of the radio sky over these frequencies is essential for modelling foregrounds in experiments targeting cosmic dawn and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Luke McKay , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Aaron Chippendale , Pietro Bolli , Georgios Kyriakou , Alex Dunning , Ronald Ekers

The Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) instrument aboard the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) has mapped the full microwave sky to mean sensitivity 26 uK per 7 deg field of view. The absolute calibration is determined to 0.7% with…

The Haslam 408 MHz all-sky map is widely used as a template to model the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission at radio and microwave frequencies. Recent studies have suggested that there are large uncorrected flux scale errors in this map,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Ainulnabilah Nasirudin , Philip Bull

In 2018 the EDGES experiment claimed the first detection of the global cosmic 21cm signal, which featured an absorption trough centered around $z \sim 17$ with a depth of approximately -500mK. This amplitude is deeper than the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Junsong Cang , Andrei Mesinger , Steven G. Murray , Daniela Breitman , Yuxiang Qin , Roberto Trotta

The EDGES High-Band experiment aims to detect the sky-average brightness temperature of the $21$-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in the redshift range $14.8 \gtrsim z \gtrsim 6.5$. To probe this redshifted signal, EDGES…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Raul A. Monsalve , Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman , Thomas J. Mozdzen

We have mapped the total sky brightness at 1465 MHz in two adjacent 60-degree declination bands with the portable 5.5-m parabolic reflector of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an on-going international collaboration to survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tello , T. Villela , G. F. Smoot , S. Torres , M. Bersanelli

A radio continuum survey at medium Galactic latitudes with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope is being carried out at a centre frequency of 1.4 GHz in total power and linear polarization. Areas up to +/- 20 degree of Galactic latitude are now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Uyaniker , E. Fuerst , W. Reich , P. Reich , R. Wielebinski

Understanding diffuse Galactic radio emission is interesting both in its own right and for minimizing foreground contamination of cosmological measurements. Cosmic Microwave Background experiments have focused on frequencies > 10 GHz,…

In recent years, arrays of radio antennas operating in the MHz regime have shown great potential as detectors in astroparticle physics. In particular, they fulfill an important role in the indirect detection of ultra-high energy cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Max Büsken , Tomáš Fodran , Tim Huege

SARAS is a correlation spectrometer connected to a frequency independent antenna that is purpose-designed for precision measurements of the radio background at long wavelengths. The design, calibration and observing strategies admit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nipanjana Patra , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Shiv Sethi , N. Udaya Shankar , A. Raghunathan

A new polarization survey of the northern sky at 1.41 GHz is presented. The observations were carried out using the 25.6m telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Canada, with an angular resolution of 36 arcmin. The data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Wolleben , T. L. Landecker , W. Reich , R. Wielebinski

The Planck mission detected thousands of extragalactic radio sources at frequencies from 28 to 857 GHz. Planck's calibration is absolute (in the sense that it is based on the satellite's annual motion around the Sun and the temperature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 B. Partridge , M. López-Caniego , R. A. Perley , J. Stevens , B. J. Butler , G. Rocha , B. Walter , A. Zacchei

The C-Band All-Sky Survey C-BASS is a high-sensitivity all-sky radio survey at an angular resolution of 45 arcmin and a frequency of 4.7 GHz. We present a total intensity 4.7 GHz map of the North Celestial Pole (NCP) region of sky, above…

A detailed knowledge of the Galactic radio continuum is of high interest for studies of the dynamics and structure of the Galaxy as well as for the problem of foreground removal in Cosmic Microwave Background measurements. In this work we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Platania , C. Burigana , D. Maino , E. Caserini , M. Bersanelli , B. Cappellini , A. Mennella

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

We present a partial-sky survey of the radio continuum at 2.3 GHz within the scope of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an observational program conceived and developed to reveal the large-scale properties of Galactic synchrotron…

Using all-sky maps obtained from COBE/DIRBE at 3.5 and 4.9 um, we present a reanalysis of diffuse sky emissions such as zodiacal light (ZL), diffuse Galactic light (DGL), integrated starlight (ISL), and isotropic residual emission including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 K. Sano , K. Kawara , S. Matsuura , H. Kataza , T. Arai , Y. Matsuoka
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