Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-10-26
Astrophys.J.567:363-369,2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Minor revisions to match accepted ApJ version. 6 pages, 4 figs. Color figures and more foreground information at http://www.
Scientific paper
10.1086/338109
We present a new puzzle involving Galactic microwave emission and attempt to resolve it. On one hand, a cross-correlation analysis of the WHAM H-alpha map with the Tenerife 10 and 15 GHz maps shows that the well-known DIRBE correlated microwave emission cannot be dominated by free-free emission. On the other hand, recent high resolution observations in the 8-10 GHz range with the Green Bank 140 ft telescope by Finkbeiner et al. failed to find the corresponding 8 sigma signal that would be expected in the simplest spinning dust models. So what physical mechanism is causing this ubiquitous dust-correlated emission? We argue for a model predicting that spinning dust is the culprit after all, but that the corresponding small grains are well correlated with the larger grains seen at 100 micron only on large angular scales. In support of this grain segregation model, we find the best spinning dust template to involve higher frequency maps in the range 12-60 micron, where emission from transiently heated small grains is important. Upcoming CMB experiments such as ground-based interferometers, MAP and Planck LFI with high resolution at low frequencies should allow a definitive test of this model.
Davies Rhodri D.
de Oliveira-Costa Angélica
Finkbeiner Douglas Paul
Gutierrez Carlos M.
Haffner Matthew L.
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