Bibcode
Planck Collaboration; Adam, R.; Ade, P. A. R.; Alves, M. I. R.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartolo, N.; Battaner, E.; Benabed, K.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bonavera, L.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Bucher, M.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Calabrese, E.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Catalano, A.; Chiang, H. C.; Christensen, P. R.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Combet, C.; Couchot, F.; Crill, B. P.; Curto, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Rosa, A.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Dolag, K.; Doré, O.; Ducout, A.; Dupac, X.; Elsner, F.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; Ferrière, K.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Franceschi, E.; Galeotta, S.; Ganga, K.; Ghosh, T.; Giard, M.; Gjerløw, E.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gregorio, A.; Gruppuso, A.; Gudmundsson, J. E.; Hansen, F. K.; Harrison, D. L.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hobson, M.; Hornstrup, A.; Hurier, G.; Jaffe, A. H.; Jaffe, T. R.; Jones, W. C.; Juvela, M.; Keihänen, E.; Keskitalo, R.; Kisner, T. S.; Knoche, J.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Lamarre, J.-M.; Lasenby, A.; Lattanzi, M.; Lawrence, C. R.; Leahy, J. P.; Leonardi, R.; Levrier, F.; Liguori, M.; Lilje, P. B.; Linden-Vørnle, M.; López-Caniego, M.; Lubin, P. M.; Macías-Pérez, J. F.; Maggio, G.; Maino, D.; Mandolesi, N. et al.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 596, id.A103, 28 pp.
Fecha de publicación:
12
2016
Revista
Número de citas
115
Número de citas referidas
94
Descripción
Recent models for the large-scale Galactic magnetic fields in the
literature have been largely constrained by synchrotron emission and
Faraday rotation measures. We use three different but representative
models to compare their predicted polarized synchrotron and dust
emission with that measured by the Planck satellite. We first update
these models to match the Planck synchrotron products using a common
model for the cosmic-ray leptons. We discuss the impact on this analysis
of the ongoing problems of component separation in the Planck microwave
bands and of the uncertain cosmic-ray spectrum. In particular, the
inferred degree of ordering in the magnetic fields is sensitive to these
systematic uncertainties, and we further show the importance of
considering the expected variations in the observables in addition to
their mean morphology. We then compare the resulting simulated emission
to the observed dust polarization and find that the dust predictions do
not match the morphology in the Planck data but underpredict the dust
polarization away from the plane. We modify one of the models to roughly
match both observables at high latitudes by increasing the field
ordering in the thin disc near the observer. Though this specific
analysis is dependent on the component separation issues, we present the
improved model as a proof of concept for how these studies can be
advanced in future using complementary information from ongoing and
planned observational projects.