Deep 1.4-GHz observations of diffuse polarized emission

Details Deep 1.4-GHz observations of diffuse polarized emission Deep 1.4-GHz observations of diffuse polarized emission

2005-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512286v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:132-138,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09979.x

Polarized diffuse emission observations at 1.4-GHz in a high Galactic latitude area of the northern Celestial hemisphere are presented. The 3.2 X 3.2 deg^2 field, centred at RA = 10h 58m, Dec = +42deg 18' (B1950), has Galactic coordinates l~172deg, b~+63deg and is located in the region selected as northern target of the BaR-SPOrt experiment. Observations have been performed with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope. We find that the angular power spectra of the E- and B-modes have slopes of beta_E = -1.79 +/- 0.13 and beta_B = -1.74 +/- 0.12, respectively. Because of the very high Galactic latitude and the smooth emission, a weak Faraday rotation action is expected, which allows both a fair extrapolation to Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP) frequencies and an estimate of the contamination by Galactic synchrotron emission. We extrapolate the E-mode spectrum up to 32-GHz and confirm the possibility to safely detect the CMBP E-mode signal in the Ka band found in another low emission region (Carretti et al. 2005b). Extrapolated up to 90-GHz, the Galactic synchrotron B-mode looks to compete with the cosmic signal only for models with a tensor-to-scalar perturbation power ratio T/S < 0.001, which is even lower than the T/S value of 0.01 found to be accessible in the only other high Galactic latitude area investigated to date. This suggests that values as low as T/S = 0.01 might be accessed at high Galactic latitudes. Such low emission values can allow a significant red-shift of the best frequency to detect the CMBP B-mode, also reducing the contamination by Galactic dust, and opening interesting perspectives to investigate Inflation models.

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