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Dickinson, C.; Ali-Haïmoud, Y.; Barr, A.; Battistelli, E. S.; Bell, A.; Bernstein, L.; Casassus, S.; Cleary, K.; Draine, B. T.; Génova-Santos, R.; Harper, S. E.; Hensley, B.; Hill-Valler, J.; Hoang, Thiem; Israel, F. P.; Jew, L.; Lazarian, A.; Leahy, J. P.; Leech, J.; López-Caraballo, C. H.; McDonald, I.; Murphy, E. J.; Onaka, T.; Paladini, R.; Peel, M. W.; Perrott, Y.; Poidevin, F.; Readhead, A. C. S.; Rubiño-Martín, J.-A.; Taylor, A. C.; Tibbs, C. T.; Todorović, M.; Vidal, Matias
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New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 80, p. 1-28.
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Description
Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) is a component of diffuse Galactic
radiation observed at frequencies in the range ≈ 10-60 GHz. AME was
first detected in 1996 and recognised as an additional component of
emission in 1997. Since then, AME has been observed by a range of
experiments and in a variety of environments. AME is spatially
correlated with far-IR thermal dust emission but cannot be explained by
synchrotron or free-free emission mechanisms, and is far in excess of
the emission contributed by thermal dust emission with the power-law
opacity consistent with the observed emission at sub-mm wavelengths.
Polarization observations have shown that AME is very weakly polarized (
≲ 1 %). The most natural explanation for AME is rotational emission
from ultra-small dust grains ("spinning dust"), first postulated in
1957. Magnetic dipole radiation from thermal fluctuations in the
magnetization of magnetic grain materials may also be contributing to
the AME, particularly at higher frequencies ( ≳ 50 GHz). AME is
also an important foreground for Cosmic Microwave Background analyses.
This paper presents a review and the current state-of-play in AME
research, which was discussed in an AME workshop held at ESTEC, The
Netherlands, June 2016.
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