All-sky Observational Evidence for An Inverse Correlation between Dust Temperature and Emissivity Spectral Index

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2011-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/1201.0060v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

17 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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We show that a one-component variable-emissivity-spectral-index model (the free-{\alpha} model) provides more physically motivated estimates of dust temperature at the Galactic polar caps than one- or two-component fixed-emissivity-spectral-index models (fixed-{\alpha} models) for interstellar dust thermal emission at far-infrared and millimeter wavelengths. For the comparison we have fit all-sky one-component dust models with fixed or variable emissivity spectral index to a new and improved version of the 210-channel dust spectra from the COBE-FIRAS, the 100 - 240 {\mu}m maps from the COBE-DIRBE and the 94 GHz dust map from the WMAP. The best model, the free-{\alpha} model, is well constrained by data at 60-3000 GHz over 86 per cent of the total sky area. It predicts dust temperature (Tdust) to be 13.7-22.7 ({\pm}1.3) K, the emissivity spectral index ({\alpha}) to be 1.2 - 3.1 ({\pm}0.3) and the optical depth ({\tau}) to range 0.6 - 46 {\times} 10^(-5) with a 23 per cent uncertainty. Using these estimates, we present all-sky evidence for an inverse correlation between the emissivity spectral index and dust temperature, which fits the relation {\alpha} = 1/({\delta}+{\omega}{\cdot}Tdust) with {\delta} = -0.510{\pm}0.011 and {\omega} = 0.059{\pm}0.001. This best model will be useful to cosmic microwave background experiments for removing foreground dust contamination and it can serve as an all-sky extended-frequency reference for future higher resolution dust models.

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