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We test anisotropic dark energy models with the 7-year WMAP temperature observations data. In the presence of imperfect sources, due to large-scale gradients or anisotropies in the dark energy field, the CMB sky will be distorted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Magnus J. Axelsson , Frode K. Hansen , Tomi Koivisto , David F. Mota

We present direct evidence for anomalous microwave emission in the Perseus molecular cloud, which shows a clear rising spectrum from 11 to 17 GHz in the data of the COSMOSOMAS experiment. By extending the frequency coverage using WMAP maps…

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave background have provided many of the most powerful constraints we have on cosmology and events in the early universe. The spectrum and isotropy of CBR have long been a pillar of Big Bang models. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 George F. Smoot

Fluctuations in the brightness of the background radiation can lead to confusion with real point sources. Such background emission confusion will be important for infrared observations with relatively large beam sizes since the amount of…

For high-precision cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, contamination from extragalactic point sources is a major concern. It is therefore useful to be able to detect and discard point source contaminated pixels using the map…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

We discuss interpretation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies detected by us recently in the Spitzer IRAC based measurements. The fluctuations are approximately isotropic on the sky consistent with their cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Kashlinsky , R. G. Arendt , J. Mather , S. H. Moseley

We examine the extent to which galactic and extragalactic foregrounds can hamper the detection of primordial Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. We limit our discussion to intermediate angular scales, $10^{\prime}\lsim \theta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 L. Toffolatti

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…

Large-scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies in homogeneous, globally anisotropic cosmologies are investigated. We perform a statistical analysis in which the four-year data from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite is searched…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Emory. F. Bunn , Pedro Ferreira , Joseph Silk

We have analysed 18 ALMA continuum maps in Bands 6 and 7, with rms down to 7.8$\mu$Jy, to derive differential number counts down to 60$\mu$Jy and 100$\mu$Jy at $\lambda=$1.3 mm and $\lambda=$1.1 mm, respectively. The area covered by the…

Clustering of cosmic-ray sources affects the flux observed beyond the cutoff imposed by the cosmic microwave background and may be important in interpreting the AGASA, Fly's Eye, and HiRes data. The standard deviation, sigma, in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 John N. Bahcall , Eli Waxman

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations at very small angular scales (less than $10'$) induced by matter sources are computed in a simplified way. The result corrects a previous formula appearing in the literature. The small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Mark Hindmarsh

We report the detection of correlated anisotropies in the Cosmic Far-Infrared Background at 160 microns. We measure the power spectrum in the Spitzer/SWIRE Lockman Hole field. It reveals unambiguously a strong excess above cirrus and…

We present a study of the environments of extended radio sources in the Australia Telescope Low Brightness Survey (ATLBS). The radio sources were selected from the Extended Source Sample (ATLBS-ESS), which is a well defined sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 K. Thorat , L. Saripalli , R. Subrahmanyan

The spectral hardenings of cosmic ray nuclei above $\sim 200$ GV followed by softenings around 10 TV, the knee of the all-particle spectrum around PeV energies, as well as the pattern change of the amplitude and phase of the large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-13 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

Forthcoming CMB experiments will allow us to accurately investigate the power spectrum at very small scales ($\ell > 1000$). We predict the level of the primary anisotropies, given the actual CMB measurements. The secondary anisotropies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Aghanim , P. G. Castro , A. Melchiorri , J. Silk

The detection of point sources in Cosmic Microwave Background maps is usually based on a single-frequency approach, whereby maps at each frequency are filtered separately and the spectral information on the sources is derived combining the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-16 L. F. Lanz , D. Herranz , M. López-Caniego , J. González-Nuevo , G. de Zotti , M. Massardi , J. L. Sanz

The nature of dark matter is increasingly constrained by cosmological data. In this paper, we examine the implications of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy limits on the density of cold dark matter under different theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Melchiorri , J. Silk

The SCUBA instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope has already had an impact on cosmology by detecting relatively large numbers of dusty galaxies at high redshift. Apart from identifying well-detected sources, such data can also be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Colin Borys , Scott C. Chapman , Douglas Scott

Weak lensing distortion of the background cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns by the foreground density fluctuations is well studied in the literature. We discuss the gravitational lensing modification to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chao Li , Asantha Cooray