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We study the spectral and morphological characteristics of the diffuse Galactic emission in the WMAP temperature data using a template-based multi-linear regression, and obtain the following results. 1. We confirm previous observations of a…

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Galactic foreground emission is a limiting factor for precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. We perform an angular power spectrum analysis (APS) of all-sky total intensity maps at 408 MHz and 1420 MHz, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. La Porta , C. Burigana , W. Reich , P. Reich

We use the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) 4-year sky maps to model Galactic microwave emission at high latitudes (|b| > 20 deg). Cross-correlation of the DMR maps with Galactic template maps detects fluctuations in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Kogut , G. Hinshaw , A. J. Banday , C. L. Bennett , K. Gorski , G. F. Smoot , E. L. Wright

We present the application of the Fast Independent Component Analysis ({\ica}) technique for blind component separation to polarized astrophysical emission. We study how the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarized signal, consisting of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 C. Baccigalupi , F. Perrotta , G. De Zotti , G. F. Smoot , C. Burigana , D. Maino , L. Bedini , E. Salerno

WMAP data when combined with ancillary data on free-free, synchrotron and dust allow an improved understanding of the spectrum of emission from each of these components. Here we examine the sky variation at intermediate and high latitudes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-27 Tuhin Ghosh , A. J. Banday , Tess Jaffe , Clive Dickinson , Rod Davies , Richard Davis , Krzysztof Gorski

We compute the cross correlation of the intensity and polarisation from the 5-year WMAP data in different sky-regions with respect to template maps for synchrotron, dust, and free-free emission. We derive the frequency dependence and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 N. Macellari , E. Pierpaoli , C. Dickinson , J. Vaillancourt

[Abridged] We present updated estimates of Galactic foreground emission using seven years of WMAP data. Using the power spectrum of differences between multi-frequency template-cleaned maps, we find no evidence for foreground contamination…

We present new full-sky temperature maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on the first three years of the WMAP sky survey. The new maps, which are consistent with the first-year maps and more sensitive, incorporate…

Polarized foreground emission from the Galaxy is one of the biggest challenges facing current and upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments. We develop new models of polarized Galactic dust and synchrotron emission…

We present new measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the final season of the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP). The data set was obtained in winter 2004-2005 with the 7 m antenna in Crawford…

The WMAP satellite has made available high quality maps of the sky in five frequency bands ranging from 22 to 94 GHz, with the main scientific objective of studying the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). These maps,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Delabrouille , J. -F. Cardoso , M. Le Jeune , M. Betoule , G. Fay , F. Guilloux

Our position inside the Galaxy requires all-sky surveys to reveal its large-scale properties. The zero-level calibration of all-sky surveys differs from standard 'relative' measurements, where a source is measured in respect to its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wolfgang Reich , Patricia Reich

Measurement of the largest angular scale ($\ell < 30$) features of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a powerful way to constrain the optical depth to reionization and search for the signature of inflation through the…

We present a new estimate of foreground emission in the WMAP data, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. The new technique delivers maps of each foreground component for a variety of foreground models, error estimates of the…

We extend previous work modeling the Galactic magnetic field in the plane using synchrotron emission in total and polarised intensity. In this work, we include a more realistic treatment of the cosmic-ray electrons using the GALPROP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , J. P. Leahy , S. Leach , A. W. Strong

Synchrotron emission is an important process in Galactic dynamics and a potentially confusing foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observations. Though the mechanism of synchrotron emission is well understood, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George F. Smoot

We constrain the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission, $\beta_s$, by correlating the recently released 2.3 GHz S-Band Polarization All Sky Survey (S-PASS) data with the 23 GHz 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 U. Fuskeland , K. J. Andersen , R. Aurlien , R. Banerji , M. Brilenkov , H. K. Eriksen , M. Galloway , E. Gjerløw , S. K. Næss , T. L. Svalheim , I. K. Wehus

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

[ABRIDGED] The knowledge of the regular component of the Galactic magnetic field gives important information about the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way, as well as constitutes a basic tool to determine cosmic rays trajectories. It…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Ruiz-Granados , J. A. Rubino-Martin , E. Battaner

Polarized diffuse emission observations at 1.4-GHz in a high Galactic latitude area of the northern Celestial hemisphere are presented. The 3.2 X 3.2 deg^2 field, centred at RA = 10h 58m, Dec = +42deg 18' (B1950), has Galactic coordinates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Carretti , S. Poppi , W. Reich , P. Reich , E. Fuerst , G. Bernardi , S. Cortiglioni , C. Sbarra