Foreground Contributions to 0.2-2° CMB Anisotropies

Toffolatti, L.; Danese, L.; Franceschini, A.; Mandolesi, N.; Smoot, G. F.; Bersanelli, M.; Vittorio, N.; Lasenby, A.; Partridge, R. B.; Davies, R.; Sironi, G.; Cesarsky, C.; Lachieze-Rey, M.; Martinez-Gonzalez, E.; Beckman, J.; Rebolo, R.; Sáez, D.; de Bernardis, P.; dall'Oglio, G.; Crane, P.; Janssen, M.; Puget, J. L.; Bussoletti, E.; Raffelt, G.; Encrenaz, P.; Natale, V.; Tofani, G.; Merluzzi, P.; Scaramella, R.; Efstathiou, G.
Bibliographical reference

Astrophysical Letters and Communications, Vol. 32, p.125

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1995
Number of authors
30
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
13
Refereed citations
11
Description
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'< theta < 2 deg, since many current as well as future experiments have been designed to map CMB anisotropies at these angular scales. In fact, scales of > 10' are of crucial importance to test both the conditions in the early Universe and current theories of the gravitational collapse.