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GEM项目的2.3 GHz连续谱测量

The 2.3 GHz continuum survey of the GEM project

C. Tello, T. Villela, S. Torres, M. Bersanelli, G. F. Smoot, I. S. Ferreira, A. Cingoz, J. Lamb, D. Barbosa, D. Perez-Becker, S. Ricciardi, J. A. Currivan, P. Platania, D. Maino

摘要:

我们提出了一个部分天空调查的无线电连续在2.3 GHz范围内的银河系发射映射(GEM)项目,观测计划的构思和开发,以揭示大规模的银河系同步辐射的性质,通过一组自洽的调查之间的无线电连续408 MHz和10 GHz的。GEM实验使用一个便携式双屏蔽5.5米射电望远镜,采用地平方位角配置,通过从一个不断旋转的平台以30度天顶角对天空进行环形扫描,绘制来自不同观测点的60度宽的December波段。观测是用总功率接收器完成的,其前端高电子迁移率晶体管(HEMT)放大器直接与抛物面反射器主焦点处的圆柱形喇叭匹配。月球被用来校准天线温度标度,地图的编制需要直接减法和减色算法,以消除地面污染,这是系统误差的最重要来源。我们使用了来自哥伦比亚和巴西两个地点的484小时总强度观测,从DEC = -51.73度到DEC = +34.78度,得到66%的天空覆盖率。在T-T图上与2326 MHz的Rhodes/HartRAO测量直接相关后,组合测量的零级不确定度为103 mK,温标误差为5%。在GEM调查中,天空亮度分布为低发射区和高发射区,这与在Haslam 408 MHz和WMAP K波段调查中看到的过渡区的外观一致。初步结果还表明,408兆赫和2.3千兆赫波段的GEM调查的温度谱指数与这些地区的空间相关性较弱,但它陡峭显着从高到低的发射区相对于WMAP K波段调查。

英文摘要:

We present a partial-sky survey of the radio continuum at 2.3 GHz within the scope of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an observational program conceived and developed to reveal the large-scale properties of Galactic synchrotron radiation through a set of self-consistent surveys of the radio continuum between 408 MHz and 10 GHz. The GEM experiment uses a portable and double-shielded 5.5-m radiotelescope in altazimuthal configuration to map 60-degree-wide declination bands from different observational sites by circularly scanning the sky at zenithal angles of 30 deg from a constantly rotating platform. The observations were accomplished with a total power receiver, whose front-end High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) amplifier was matched directly to a cylindrical horn at the prime focus of the parabolic reflector. The Moon was used to calibrate the antenna temperature scale and the preparation of the map required direct subtraction and destriping algorithms to remove ground contamination as the most significant source of systematic error. We used 484 hours of total intensity observations from two locations in Colombia and Brazil to yield 66% sky coverage from DEC = -51.73 deg to DEC = +34.78 deg. The zero-level uncertainty of the combined survey is 103 mK with a temperature scale error of 5% after direct correlation with the Rhodes/HartRAO survey at 2326 MHz on a T-T plot. The sky brightness distribution into regions of low and high emission in the GEM survey is consistent with the appearance of a transition region as seen in the Haslam 408 MHz and WMAP K-band surveys. Preliminary results also show that the temperature spectral index between 408 MHz and the 2.3 GHz band of the GEM survey has a weak spatial correlation with these regions; but it steepens significantly from high to low emission regions with respect to the WMAP K-band survey.

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