Bibcode
Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Alves, M. I. R.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Balbi, A.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartlett, J. G.; Battaner, E.; Bedini, L.; Benabed, K.; Benoît, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bonaldi, A.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Cabella, P.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Chen, X.; Chiang, L.-Y.; Christensen, P. R.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Coulais, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Gasperis, G.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Dobler, G.; Dole, H.; Donzelli, S.; Doré, O.; Douspis, M.; Dupac, X.; Enßlin, T. A.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Franceschi, E.; Galeotta, S.; Ganga, K.; Génova-Santos, R. T.; Ghosh, T.; Giard, M.; Giardino, G.; Giraud-Héraud, Y.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gregorio, A.; Gruppuso, A.; Hansen, F. K.; Harrison, D.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hivon, E.; Hobson, M.; Holmes, W. A.; Hornstrup, A.; Hovest, W.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Jaffe, T. R.; Jaffe, A. H.; Juvela, M.; Keihänen, E.; Keskitalo, R.; Kisner, T. S.; Knoche, J.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Lagache, G.; Lähteenmäki, A.; Lamarre, J.-M.; Lasenby, A.; Lawrence, C. R.; Leach, S.; Leonardi, R.; Lilje, P. B.; Linden-Vørnle, M.; Lubin, P. M.; Macías-Pérez, J. F.; Maffei, B.; Maino, D.; Mandolesi, N.; Maris, M. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 557, id.A53, 20 pp.
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2013
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Description
We perform an analysis of the diffuse low-frequency Galactic components
in the southern part of the Gould Belt system (130° ≤ l ≤
230° and -50° ≤ b ≤ -10°). Strong ultra-violet flux
coming from the Gould Belt super-association is responsible for bright
diffuse foregrounds that we observe from our position inside the system
and that can help us improve our knowledge of the Galactic emission.
Free-free emission and anomalous microwave emission (AME) are the
dominant components at low frequencies (ν < 40 GHz), while
synchrotron emission is very smooth and faint. We separated diffuse
free-free emission and AME from synchrotron emission and thermal dust
emission by using Planck data, complemented by ancillary data, using the
correlated component analysis (CCA) component-separation method and we
compared our results with the results of cross-correlation of foreground
templates with the frequency maps. We estimated the electron temperature
Te from Hα and free-free emission using two methods
(temperature-temperature plot and cross-correlation) and obtained
Te ranging from 3100 to 5200K for an effective fraction of
absorbing dust along the line of sight of 30% (fd = 0.3). We
estimated the frequency spectrum of the diffuse AME and recovered a peak
frequency (in flux density units) of 25.5 ± 1.5 GHz. We verified
the reliability of this result with realistic simulations that include
biases in the spectral model for the AME and in the free-free template.
By combining physical models for vibrational and rotational dust
emission and adding the constraints from the thermal dust spectrum from
Planck and IRAS, we are able to present a good description of the AME
frequency spectrum for plausible values of the local density and
radiation field.
Appendices are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
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