Bibcode
Buzzelli, A.; Fatigoni, S.; Murgia, M.; Battistelli, E. S.; Carretti, E.; Castangia, P.; Concu, R.; Cruciani, A.; de Bernardis, P.; Genova-Santos, R.; Govoni, F.; Guidi, F.; Lamagna, L.; Luzzi, G.; Masi, S.; Melis, A.; Paladini, R.; Piacentini, F.; Poppi, S.; Radiconi, F.; Rebolo, R.; Rubino-Martin, J. A.; Tarchi, A.; Vacca, V.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 877, Issue 2, article id. L31, 7 pp. (2019).
Fecha de publicación:
6
2019
Número de citas
23
Número de citas referidas
21
Descripción
We have observed the Andromeda galaxy, Messier 31 (M31), at 6.7 GHz with
the Sardinia Radio Telescope. We mapped the radio emission in the
C-band, re-analyzed WMAP and Planck maps, as well as other ancillary
data, and we have derived an overall integrated flux density spectrum
from the radio to the infrared. This allowed us to estimate the emission
budget from M31. Integrating over the whole galaxy, we found strong and
highly significant evidence for anomalous microwave emission (AME), at
the level of {1.45}-0.19+0.17 Jy at the peaking
frequency of ≃25 GHz. Decomposing the spectrum into known emission
mechanisms such as free–free, synchrotron, thermal dust, and AME
arising from electric dipole emission from rapidly rotating dust grains,
we found that the overall emission from M31 is dominated, at frequencies
below 10 GHz, by synchrotron emission with a spectral index of
-{1.10}-0.08+0.10, with subdominant
free–free emission. At frequencies ≳10 GHz, AME has a similar
intensity to that of synchrotron and free–free emission,
overtaking them between 20 and 50 GHz, whereas thermal dust emission
dominates the emission budget at frequencies above 60 GHz, as expected.
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