Bibcode
Hildebrandt, S. R.; Rebolo, R.; Rubiño-Martín, J. A.; Watson, R. A.; Gutiérrez, C. M.; Hoyland, R. J.; Battistelli, E. S.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 382, Issue 2, pp. 594-608.
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12
2007
Citations
31
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25
Description
We present observations with the new 11-GHz radiometer of the COSMOSOMAS
experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). The sky region between
0° <= RA <= 360° and 26° <= Dec. <= 49° (ca.
6500 deg2) was observed with an angular resolution of . Two
orthogonal independent channels in the receiving system measured total
power signals from linear polarizations with a 2-GHz bandwidth. Maps
with an average sensitivity of 50 μK per beam have been obtained for
each channel. At high Galactic latitude (|b| > 30°) the 11-GHz
data are found to contain the expected cosmic microwave background (CMB)
as well as extragalactic radiosources, galactic synchrotron and
free-free emission, and a dust-correlated component which is likely of
Galactic origin. At the angular scales allowed by the window function of
the experiment, the 100-240 μm dust-correlated component presents an
amplitude ΔT ~ 9-13 μK while the CMB signal is of the order of
27 μK. The spectral behaviour of the dust-correlated signal is
examined in the light of previous COSMOSOMAS data at 13-17 GHz and
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data at 22-94 GHz in the same sky
region. We detect a flattening in the spectral index of this signal
below 20 GHz which rules out synchrotron radiation as being responsible
for the emission. This anomalous dust emission can be described by a
combination of free-free emission and spinning dust models with a flux
density peaking around 20 GHz.