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First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Foreground Emission | | C. Bennett
; R. S. Hill
; G. Hinshaw
; M. R. Nolta
; N. Odegard
; L. Page
; D. N. Spergel
; J. L. Weiland
; E. L. Wright
; M. Halpern
; N. Jarosik
; A. Kogut
; M. Limon
; S. S. Meyer
; G. S. Tucker
; E. Wollack
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11 Feb 2003 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J.Suppl. 148 (2003) 97 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1,6), S. S. Meyer , G. S. Tucker (1,6,8), E. Wollack ( NASA’s GSFC, SSAI Princeton, UCLA, UBC NRC U. Chicago Brown | | Abstract: | Full sky maps are made in five microwave frequency bands to separate the temperature anisotropy of the CMB from foreground emission. We define masks that excise regions of high foreground emission. The effectiveness of template fits to remove foreground emission from the WMAP data is examined. These efforts result in a CMB map with minimal contamination and a demonstration that the WMAP CMB power spectrum is insensitive to residual foreground emission. We construct a model of the Galactic emission components. We find that the Milky Way resembles other normal spiral galaxies between 408 MHz and 23 GHz, with a synchrotron spectral index that is flattest (beta ~ -2.5) near star-forming regions, especially in the plane, and steepest (beta ~ -3) in the halo. The significant synchrotron index steepening out of the plane suggests a diffusion process in which the halo electrons are trapped in the Galactic potential long enough to suffer synchrotron and inverse Compton energy losses and hence a spectral steepening. The synchrotron index is steeper in the WMAP bands than in lower frequency radio surveys, with a spectral break near 20 GHz to beta < -3. The modeled thermal dust spectral index is also steep in the WMAP bands, with beta ~ 2.2. Microwave and H alpha measurements of the ionized gas agree. Spinning dust emission is limited to < ~5% of the Ka-band foreground emission. A catalog of 208 point sources is presented. Derived source counts suggest a contribution to the anisotropy power from unresolved sources of (15.0 +- 1.4) 10^{-3} microK^2 sr at Q-band and negligible levels at V-band and W-band. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0302208 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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