The Contribution Of Galactic Free-Free Emission to Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Found by the Saskatoon Experiment
dc.contributor.author | Simonetti, John H. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Dennison, B. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Topasna, G. A. | en |
dc.contributor.department | Institute for Particle, Nuclear and Astronomical Sciences (IPNAS) | en |
dc.contributor.department | Physics | en |
dc.date.accessed | 2014-02-28 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-10T13:18:52Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-10T13:18:52Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 1996-02 | en |
dc.description.abstract | We made a sensitive, wide-field Ha image of the north celestial polar region. Using this image, we constrain the contribution of irregularities in interstellar free-free emission to the degree-scale anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background detected in recent observations at Saskatoon by the Princeton group. The analysis of the Her image mimics the Saskatoon data analysis: the resulting signal is the strength of irregularities sampled with the Saskatoon beam (i.e., degree-scale) along the 85 degrees declination circle. We found no such irregularities that could be attributed to Her emission. The implied upper bound on the rms variation in free-free brightness temperature is less than 4.6 mu K at 27.5 GHz. The observed cosmic microwave background anisotropies are much larger. Therefore, the contribution of irregularities in interstellar free-free emission to the observed anisotropies is negligible. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation AST-9319670 | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Horton Foundation Grant | en |
dc.identifier.citation | John H. Simonetti et al. 1996 ApJ 458 L1 doi:10.1086/309915 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1086/309915 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-637X | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25859 | en |
dc.identifier.url | http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/458/1/L1/ | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | en |
dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
dc.subject | cosmic microwave background | en |
dc.subject | instrumentation, miscellaneous | en |
dc.subject | ism, | en |
dc.subject | general | en |
dc.subject | radiometer | en |
dc.title | The Contribution Of Galactic Free-Free Emission to Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Found by the Saskatoon Experiment | en |
dc.title.serial | Astrophysical Journal | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
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