1.4 GHz polarimetric observations of the two fields imaged by the DASI experiment

Details 1.4 GHz polarimetric observations of the two fields imaged by the DASI experiment 1.4 GHz polarimetric observations of the two fields imaged by the DASI experiment

2006-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603389v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:2064-2070,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, six figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10649.x

We present results of polarization observations at 1.4 GHz of the two fields imaged by the DASI experiment ($\alpha = 23^{\rm h} 30^{\rm m}$, $\delta = -55^{\circ}$ and $\alpha = 00^{\rm h} 30^{\rm m}$, $\delta = -55^{\circ}$, respectively). Data were taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array with 3.4 arcmin resolution and $\sim 0.18$ mJy beam$^{-1}$ sensitivity. The emission is dominated by point sources and we do not find evidence for diffuse synchrotron radiation even after source subtraction. This allows to estimate an upper limit of the diffuse polarized emission. The extrapolation to 30 GHz suggests that the synchrotron radiation is lower than the polarized signal measured by the DASI experiment by at least 2 orders of magnitude. This further supports the conclusions drawn by the DASI team itself about the negligible Galactic foreground contamination in their data set, improving by a factor $\sim 5$ the upper limit estimated by Leitch et al. (2005). The dominant point source emission allows us to estimate the contamination of the CMB by extragalactic foregrounds. We computed the power spectrum of their contribution and its extrapolation to 30 GHz provides a framework where the CMB signal should dominate. However, our results do not match the conclusions of the DASI team about the negligibility of point source contamination, suggesting to take into account a source subtraction from the DASI data.

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