Galactic Foreground Constraints from the Python V Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Data

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2003-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301581v2

Astrophys.J. 592 (2003) 692-698

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 1 figure, ApJ accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1086/375860

We constrain Galactic foreground contamination of the Python V cosmic microwave background anisotropy data by cross correlating it with foreground contaminant emission templates. To model foreground emission we use 100 and 12 $\mu$m dust emission templates and two point source templates based on the PMN survey. The analysis takes account of inter-modulation correlations in 8 modulations of the data that are sensitive to a large range of angular scales and also densely sample a large area of sky. As a consequence the analysis here is highly constraining. We find little evidence for foreground contamination in an analysis of the whole data set. However, there is indication that foregrounds are present in the data from the larger-angular-scale modulations of those Python V fields that overlap the region scanned earlier by the UCSB South Pole 1994 experiment. This is an independent consistency cross-check of findings from the South Pole 1994 data.

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