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

Oct 27, 2018

17 pages

Published in:

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 485 (2019) 2, 2844-2860

Published: May 11, 2019

e-Print:

1810.11681 [astro-ph.GA]

DOI:

10.1093/mnras/stz522

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Abstract: (Oxford University Press)

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 map of the North Celestial Pole (NCP) region of sky, above declination >+80°, which is limited by source confusion at a level of ≈0.6 mK rms. We apply the template-fitting (cross-correlation) technique to WMAP and Planck data, using the C-BASS map as the synchrotron template, to investigate the contribution of diffuse foreground emission at frequencies ∼20–40 GHz. We quantify the anomalous microwave emission (AME) that is correlated with far-infrared dust emission. The AME amplitude does not change significantly (⁠|

{\lt }10\, {{\ \rm per\ cent}}

|⁠) when using the higher frequency C-BASS 4.7 GHz template instead of the traditional Haslam 408 MHz map as a tracer of synchrotron radiation. We measure template coefficients of 9.93 ± 0.35 and |

9.52\pm 0.34\,

| K per unit τ_353 when using the Haslam and C-BASS synchrotron templates, respectively. The AME contributes |

55\pm 2\, \mu

|K rms at 22.8 GHz and accounts for |

{\approx } 60{{\ \rm per\ cent}}

| of the total foreground emission. Our results show that a harder (flatter spectrum) component of synchrotron emission is not dominant at frequencies ≳5 GHz; the best-fitting synchrotron temperature spectral index is β = −2.91 ± 0.04 from 4.7 to 22.8 GHz and β = −2.85 ± 0.14 from 22.8 to 44.1 GHz. Free–free emission is weak, contributing |

{\approx } 7\, \mu

|K rms (⁠|

{\approx } 7{{\ \rm per\ cent}}

|⁠) at 22.8 GHz. The best explanation for the AME is still electric dipole emission from small spinning dust grains.

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18 pages, 6 figures, version matches version accepted by MNRAS

radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
radiation mechanisms: thermal
surveys
diffuse radiation
radio continuum: ISM

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