Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-07-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
24 pages, 12 figures, accepted to ApJ
Scientific paper
Present day cosmic microwave background (CMB) studies require more accurate removal of Galactic foreground emission. In this paper, we consider a way of filtering out the diffuse Galactic fluctuations on the basis of their statistical properties, namely, the power-law spectra of fluctuations. We focus on the statistical properties of two major Galactic foregrounds that arise from magnetized turbulence, namely, diffuse synchrotron emission and thermal emission from dust and describe how their power laws change with the Galactic latitude. We attribute this change to the change of the geometry of the emission region and claim that the universality of the turbulence spectrum provides a new way of removing Galactic foregrounds. We discuss and demonstrate how we can make use of our findings to remove Galactic foregrounds using a template of spatial fluctuations. In particular, we consider examples of spatial filtering of a foreground at small scales, when the separation into CMB signal and foregrounds is done at larger scales. We demonstrate that the new technique of spatial filtering of foregrounds may be promising for recovering the CMB signal in a situation when foregrounds are known at a scale different from the one under study. It can also improve filtering by combining measurements obtained at different scales.
Cho Jungyeon
Lazarian Alex
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