An Australia telescope survey for CMB anisotropies

Details An Australia telescope survey for CMB anisotropies An Australia telescope survey for CMB anisotropies

2000-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002467v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 315 (2000) 808

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, includes 8 figures and 6 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03444.x

We have surveyed six distinct `empty fields' using the Australia Telescope Compact Array in an ultra-compact configuration with the aim of imaging, with a high brightness sensitivity, any arcmin-scale brightness-temperature anisotropies in the background radio sky. The six well-separated regions were observed at a frequency of 8.7 GHz and the survey regions were limited by the ATCA primary beams which have a full width at half maximum of 6 arcmin at this frequency; all fields were observed with a resolution of 2 arcmin and an rms thermal noise of 24 microJy/beam. After subtracting foreground confusion detected in higher resolution images of the fields, residual fluctuations in Stokes I images are consistent with the expectations from thermal noise and weaker (unidentified) foreground sources; the Stokes Q and U images are consistent with expectations from thermal noise. Within the sensitivity of our observations, we have no reason to believe that there are any Sunyaev-Zeldovich holes in the microwave sky surveyed. Assuming Gaussian-form CMB anisotropy with a `flat' spectrum, we derive 95 per cent confidence upper limits of Q_flat < 10--11 microK in polarized intensity and Q_flat < 25 microK in total intensity. The ATCA filter function peaks at l=4700 and has half maximum values at l=3350 and 6050.

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