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Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Alves, M. I. R.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Battaner, E.; Benabed, K.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bobin, J.; Bonaldi, A.; Bond, J. R.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Burigana, C.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Catalano, A.; Chamballu, A.; Chiang, H. C.; Christensen, P. R.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Combet, C.; Couchot, F.; Crill, B. P.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Rosa, A.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Donzelli, S.; Doré, O.; Douspis, M.; Dupac, X.; Efstathiou, G.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; 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. L.; Henrot-Versillé, S.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hivon, E.; Hobson, M.; Hornstrup, A.; Hovest, W.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Jaffe, A. H.; Jaffe, T. R.; Jones, W. C.; Keihänen, E.; Keskitalo, R.; Kisner, T. S.; Kneissl, R.; Knoche, J.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Lagache, G.; Lähteenmäki, A.; Lamarre, J.-M.; Lasenby, A.; Lawrence, C. R.; Leonardi, R.; Liguori, M.; Lilje, P. B.; Linden-Vørnle, M.; López-Caniego, M.; Lubin, P. M.; Macías-Pérez, J. F.; Maino, D.; Mandolesi, N. et al.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 580, id.A13, 27 pp.
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Description
Planck data when combined with ancillary data provide a unique
opportunity to separate the diffuse emission components of the inner
Galaxy. The purpose of the paper is to elucidate the morphology of the
various emission components in the strong star-formation region lying
inside the solar radius and to clarify the relationship between the
various components. The region of the Galactic plane covered is l =
300° → 0° → 60° wherestar-formation is highest and
the emission is strong enough to make meaningful component separation.
The latitude widths in this longitude range lie between 1° and
2°, which correspond to FWHM z-widths of 100-200 pc at a typical
distance of 6 kpc. The four emission components studied here are
synchrotron, free-free, anomalous microwave emission (AME), and thermal
(vibrational) dust emission. These components are identified by
constructing spectral energy distributions (SEDs) at positions along the
Galactic plane using the wide frequency coverage of Planck (28.4-857
GHz) in combination with low-frequency radio data at 0.408-2.3 GHz plus
WMAP data at 23-94 GHz, along with far-infrared (FIR) data from
COBE-DIRBE and IRAS. The free-free component is determined from radio
recombination line (RRL) data. AME is found to be comparable in
brightness to the free-free emission on the Galactic plane in the
frequency range 20-40 GHz with a width in latitude similar to that of
the thermal dust; it comprises 45 ± 1% of the total 28.4 GHz
emission in the longitude range l = 300° → 0° →
60°. The free-free component is the narrowest, reflecting the fact
that it is produced by current star-formation as traced by the narrow
distribution of OB stars. It is the dominant emission on the plane
between 60 and 100 GHz. RRLs from this ionized gas are used to assess
its distance, leading to a free-free z-width of FWHM ≈ 100 pc. The
narrow synchrotron component has a low-frequency brightness spectral
index βsynch ≈ -2.7 that is similar to the broad
synchrotron component indicating that they are both populated by the
cosmic ray electrons of the same spectral index. The width of this
narrow synchrotron component is significantly larger than that of the
other three components, suggesting that it is generated in an assembly
of older supernova remnants that have expanded to sizes of order 150 pc
in 3 × 105 yr; pulsars of a similar age have a similar
spread in latitude. The thermal dust is identified in the SEDs with
average parameters of Tdust = 20.4 ± 0.4 K,
βFIR = 1.94 ± 0.03 (> 353 GHz), and
βmm = 1.67 ± 0.02 (< 353 GHz). The latitude
distributions of gamma-rays, CO, and the emission in high-frequency
Planck bands have similar widths, showing that they are all indicators
of the total gaseous matter on the plane in the inner Galaxy.
Appendices are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
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