8–12 Sept 2026
CBPF
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

All-Sky Modelling of Galactic Emission at Radio–Microwave Frequencies

Not scheduled
20m
Auditório Ministro João Alberto Lins e Barros (CBPF)

Auditório Ministro João Alberto Lins e Barros

CBPF

Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150 - Urca Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil CEP: 22290-180
Oral Talk

Speaker

Gabriel Hoerning (The University of Manchester)

Description

We present a new all-sky model of low-frequency diffuse Galactic emission designed to support high-precision CMB analyses. The model describes the regime where synchrotron, free–free, and spinning dust emission dominate and extends the Planck 2015 diffuse component-separation framework by incorporating a wide set of modern radio and microwave surveys. In total, we jointly fit 35 full- and partial-sky maps at 1° resolution, including S-PASS, C-BASS, and QUIJOTE, together with reprocessed WMAP and Planck data from the Cosmoglobe collaboration, using a Bayesian parametric approach implemented in Commander. We derive spatially varying amplitude and spectral parameter maps for the dominant low-frequency foregrounds in total intensity. The main products include a new full-sky synchrotron amplitude and spectral index solution, an all-sky characterization of spinning dust emission based on a log-normal spectral model, and a reconstructed 4.76 GHz synchrotron map with reduced large-scale systematics relative to previous templates. The resulting model achieves RMS residuals below 10 μK over 95% of the sky up to 353 GHz, with residual angular power spectra well below the CMB signal on the relevant scales. These products provide a consistent description of the transition between radio and microwave emission and establish a new reference for foreground modeling and sky simulations. By reducing systematic uncertainties in low-frequency foregrounds, this framework directly supports robust cosmological parameter inference and cross-correlation studies in the era of high-precision CMB experiments.

Author

Gabriel Hoerning (The University of Manchester)

Co-authors

Prof. Angela Taylor (University of Oxford) Prof. Clive Dickinson (The University of Manchester) Dr Gilles Weymann-Despres (University of Oxford) Dr Jamie Leech (University of Oxford) Prof. Michael Jones (University of Oxford) Dr Michael Peel (Imperial College London) Dr Paddy Leahy (The University of Manchester) Dr Roke Cepeda-Arroita (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias) Dr Stuart Harper (The University of Manchester) Prof. Timothy Pearson (California Institute of Technology) Dr Vasundhara Shaw (The University of Manchester)

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