B. Gold et al. 2009 ApJS 180 265 doi:10.1088/0067-0049/180/2/265
B. Gold1, C. L. Bennett1, R. S. Hill2, G. Hinshaw3, N. Odegard2, L. Page4, D. N. Spergel5,6, J. L. Weiland2, J. Dunkley4,6,7, M. Halpern8, N. Jarosik4, A. Kogut3, E. Komatsu9, D. Larson1, S. S. Meyer10, M. R. Nolta11, E. Wollack3 and E. L. Wright12
Show affiliationsWe present a new estimate of foreground emission in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. The new technique delivers maps of each foreground component for a variety of foreground models with estimates of the uncertainty of each foreground component, and it provides an overall goodness-of-fit estimate. The resulting foreground maps are in broad agreement with those from previous techniques used both within the collaboration and by other authors. We find that for WMAP data, a simple model with power-law synchrotron, free-free, and thermal dust components fits 90% of the sky with a reduced χ2 ν of 1.14. However, the model does not work well inside the Galactic plane. The addition of either synchrotron steepening or a modified spinning dust model improves the fit. This component may account for up to 14% of the total flux at the Ka band (33 GHz). We find no evidence for foreground contamination of the cosmic microwave background temperature map in the 85% of the sky used for cosmological analysis.
cosmic microwave background; cosmology: observations; diffuse radiation; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: structure; ISM: structure
Issue 2 (2009 February)
Received 2008 March 4, accepted for publication 2008 June 19
Published 2009 February 11
B. Gold et al. 2009 ApJS 180 265
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