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2011ApJ...734....4K - Astrophys. J., 734, 4 (2011/June-2)

ARCADE 2 observations of galactic radio emission.

KOGUT A., FIXSEN D.J., LEVIN S.M., LIMON M., LUBIN P.M., MIREL P., SEIFFERT M., SINGAL J., VILLELA T., WOLLACK E. and WUENSCHE C.A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We use absolutely calibrated data from the ARCADE 2 flight in 2006 July to model Galactic emission at frequencies 3, 8, and 10 GHz. The spatial structure in the data is consistent with a superposition of free-free and synchrotron emission. Emission with spatial morphology traced by the Haslam 408 MHz survey has spectral index βsynch= -2.5±0.1, with free-free emission contributing 0.10±0.01 of the total Galactic plane emission in the lowest ARCADE 2 band at 3.15 GHz. We estimate the total Galactic emission toward the polar caps using either a simple plane-parallel model with csc|b| dependence or a model of high-latitude radio emission traced by the COBE/FIRAS map of C II emission. Both methods are consistent with a single power law over the frequency range 22 MHz to 10 GHz, with total Galactic emission toward the north polar cap TGal= 10.12±0.90 K and spectral index β = -2.55±0.03 at reference frequency 0.31 GHz. Emission associated with the plane-parallel structure accounts for only 30% of the observed high-latitude sky temperature, with the residual in either a Galactic halo or an isotropic extragalactic background. The well-calibrated ARCADE 2 maps provide a new test for spinning dust emission, based on the integrated intensity of emission from the Galactic plane instead of cross-correlations with the thermal dust spatial morphology. The Galactic plane intensity measured by ARCADE 2 is fainter than predicted by models without spinning dust and is consistent with spinning dust contributing 0.4 ±0.1 of the Galactic plane emission at 23 GHz.

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Journal keyword(s): cosmic background radiation - radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - radio continuum: ISM

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