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Galactic emission at 19 GHz

We cross-correlate a 19 GHz full sky Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) survey with other maps to quantify the foreground contribution. Correlations are detected with the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) 240, 140 and 100 micron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Angelica de Oliveira-Costa , Max Tegmark , Lyman Page , Steven Boughn

Galactic synchrotron emissivity measurements between 250{\deg} < l < 355{\deg} from the GLEAM survey with the MWA

Synchrotron emission pervades the Galactic plane at low radio frequencies, originating from cosmic ray electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field. Using a low-frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-21 H. Su , N. Hurley-Walker , C. A. Jackson , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , S. J. Tingay , L. Hindson , P. Hancock , R. B. Wayth , B. M. Gaensler , L. Staveley-Smith , J. Morgan , M. Johnston-Hollitt , E. Lenc , M. E. Bell , J. R. Callingham , K. S. Dwarkanath , B. Q. For , A. D. Kapińska , B. McKinley , A. R. Offringa , P. Procopio , C. Wu , Q. Zheng

Improved Measurement of the Spectral Index of the Diffuse Radio Background Between 90 and 190 MHz

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Thomas. J. Mozdzen , Judd. D. Bowman , Raul. A. Monsalve , Alan. E. E. Rogers

An Improved Model of Diffuse Galactic Radio Emission from 10 MHz to 5 THz

We present an improved Global Sky Model (GSM) of diffuse galactic radio emission from 10 MHz to 5 THz, whose uses include foreground modeling for CMB and 21 cm cosmology. Our model improves on past work both algorithmically and by adding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Haoxuan Zheng , Max Tegmark , Joshua S. Dillon , Doyeon A. Kim , Adrian Liu , Abraham Neben , Justin Jonas , Patricia Reich , Wolfgang Reich

Diffuse Galactic continuum gamma rays. A model compatible with EGRET data and cosmic-ray measurements

We present a study of the compatibility of some current models of the diffuse Galactic continuum gamma rays with EGRET data. A set of regions sampling the whole sky is chosen to provide a comprehensive range of tests. The range of EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Synchrotron Emission from the Galaxy

Galactic synchrotron emission is a potentially confusing foreground, both in total power and in polarization, to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. It also contains much physical information in its own right. This review examines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. Davies , A. Wilkinson

Diffuse continuum gamma rays from the Galaxy

A new study of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray continuum radiation is presented, using a cosmic-ray propagation model which includes nucleons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, and synchrotron radiation. Our treatment of the inverse Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): Constraining diffuse Galactic radio emission in the North Celestial Pole region

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 C. Dickinson , A. Barr , H. C. Chiang , C. Copley , R. D. P. Grumitt , S. E. Harper , H. M. Heilgendorff , L. R. P. Jew , J. L. Jonas , Michael E. Jones , J. P. Leahy , J. Leech , E. M. Leitch , S. J. C. Muchovej , T. J. Pearson , M. W. Peel , A. C. S. Readhead , J. Sievers , M. A. Stevenson , Angela C. Taylor

SPI/INTEGRAL observation of the Galactic central radian: contribution of discrete sources and implication for the diffuse emission

The INTEGRAL observatory has been performing a deep survey of the Galactic central radian since 2003, with the goal of both extracting a catalog of sources and gaining insight into the Galactic diffuse emission. This paper concentrates on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 L. Bouchet , J. P. Roques , P. Mandrou , A. Strong , R. Diehl , F. Lebrun , R. Terrier

The Diffuse Galactic Far-Ultraviolet Sky

We present an all sky map of the diffuse Galactic far ultraviolet (1344-1786 Angstroms) background using GALEX data, covering 65% of the sky with 11.79 arcmin square pixels. We investigate the dependence of the background on Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Erika Hamden , David Schiminovich , Mark Seibert

Integrated Radio Continuum Spectra of Galaxies

We investigate the spectral shape of the total continuum radiation, between 74 MHz and 5 GHz (400 to 6 cm in wavelength), for a large sample of bright galaxies. We take advantage of the overlapping survey coverage of the VLA Low-Frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Joshua Marvil , Frazer Owen , Jean Eilek

Evidence for Inverted Spectrum 20 GHz Emission in the Galactic Plane

A comparison of a 19 GHz full-sky map with the WMAP satellite K band (23 GHz) map indicates that the bulk of the 20 GHz emission within 7 degrees of the Galactic plane has an inverted (rising) spectrum with an average spectral index alpha =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 S. P. Boughn , J. C. Pober

The isotropic radio background revisited

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

Measurement of Very-high-energy Diffuse Gamma-ray Emissions from the Galactic Plane with LHAASO-WCDA

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is a very important tool used to study the propagation and interaction of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. In this work, we report the measurements of the diffuse emission from the Galactic plane,…

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Towards a free-free template for CMB foregrounds

A full-sky template map of the Galactic free-free foreground emission component is increasingly important for high sensitivity CMB experiments. We use the recently published \ha data of both the northern and southern skies as the basis for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Dickinson , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis

Diffuse gamma-ray emission: Galactic and extragalactic

Here is reviewed our current understanding of Galactic and extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray emission. The spectrum of the extragalactic gamma-ray background above 30 MeV can be well described by a power law with photon index s=2.1. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

A characterization of the diffuse Galactic emissions in the anti-center of the Galaxy

Using the Archeops and WMAP data we perform a study of the anti-center Galactic diffuse emissions - thermal dust, synchrotron, free-free and anomalous emission - at degree scales. The high frequency data are used to infer the thermal dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez , S. R. Hildebrandt , F. -X. Desert

Gamma-ray continuum emission from the inner Galactic region as observed with INTEGRAL/SPI

The diffuse continuum emission from the Galactic plane in the energy range 18-1000 keV has been studied using 16 Ms of data from the SPI instrument on INTEGRAL. With such an exposure we can exploit the imaging properties of SPI to achieve a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , R. Diehl , H. Halloin , V. Schoenfelder , L. Bouchet , P. Mandrou , F. Lebrun , R. Terrier

On the radio spectral index of galaxies

The radio emission of a galaxy consists of thermal bremsstrahlung, synchrotron emission from discrete supernova remnants, and diffuse synchrotron emission from cosmic ray electrons spread over the galactic disk and halo. Each of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Lisenfeld , H. J. Voelk

The Diffuse Galactic Gamma-Ray Emission Model for GLAST LAT

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong