Bibcode
DOI
de Oliveira-Costa, Angélica; Tegmark, Max; Davies, R. D.; Gutiérrez, Carlos M.; Lasenby, A. N.; Rebolo, R.; Watson, R. A.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 606, Issue 2, pp. L89-L92.
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2004
Journal
Citations
95
Refereed citations
80
Description
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team has produced a
foreground map that can account for most of the low-frequency Galactic
microwave emission in the WMAP maps, tentatively interpreting it as
synchrotron emission. Finkbeiner and collaborators have challenged these
conclusions, arguing that the WMAP team's ``synchrotron'' template is in
fact dominated not by synchrotron radiation but by some dust-related
Galactic emission process, perhaps spinning dust grains, making
dramatically different predictions for its behavior at lower
frequencies. By cross-correlating this synchrotron template with 10 and
15 GHz cosmic microwave background observations, we find that its
spectrum turns over in a manner consistent with spinning dust emission,
falling about an order of magnitude below what the synchrotron
interpretation would predict.