The QUaD Galactic Plane Survey 1: Maps And Analysis of Diffuse Emission
T. Culverhouse, P. Ade, J. Bock, M. Bowden, M. L. Brown, G. Cahill, P. G. Castro, S. Church, R. Friedman, K. Ganga, W. K. Gear, S. Gupta, J. Hinderks, J. Kovac,… 展开作者
T. Culverhouse, P. Ade, J. Bock, M. Bowden, M. L. Brown, G. Cahill, P. G. Castro, S. Church, R. Friedman, K. Ganga, W. K. Gear, S. Gupta, J. Hinderks, J. Kovac, A. E. Lange, E. Leitch, S. J. Melhuish, Y. Memari, J. A. Murphy, A. Orlando, R. Schwarz, C. O' Sullivan, L. Piccirillo, C. Pryke, N. Rajguru, B. Rusholme, A. N. Taylor, K. L. Thompson, A. H. Turner, E. Y. S. Wu, M. Zemcov
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19 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ; new revision includes tests of spectral line contribution. The maps analyzed in this paper are available for public download at http://find.spa.umn.edu/quad/quad_galactic/
We present a survey of ~800 square degrees of the galactic plane observed with the QUaD telescope. The primary product of the survey are maps of Stokes I, Q and U parameters at 100 and 150 GHz, with spatial resolution 5 and 3.5 arcminutes respectively. Two regions are covered, spanning approximately 245-295 and 315-5 degrees in galactic longitude l, and -4<b<+4 degrees in galactic latitude b. At 0.02 degree square pixel size, the median sensitivity is 74 and 107 kJy/sr at 100 GHz and 150 GHz respectively in I, and 98 and 120 kJy/sr for Q and U. In total intensity, we find an average spectral index of 2.35+/-0.01 (stat) +/- 0.02 (sys) for |b|<1 degree, indicative of emission components other than thermal dust. A comparison to published dust, synchrotron and free-free models implies an excess of emission in the 100 GHz QUaD band, while better agreement is found at 150 GHz. A smaller excess is observed when comparing QUaD 100 GHz data to WMAP 5-year W band; in this case the excess is likely due to the wider bandwidth of QUaD. Combining the QUaD and WMAP data, a two-component spectral fit to the inner galactic plane (|b|<1 degree) yields mean spectral indices of -0.32 +/- 0.03 and 2.84 +/- 0.03; the former is interpreted as a combination of the spectral indices of synchrotron, free-free and dust, while the second is attributed largely to the thermal dust continuum. In the same galactic latitude range, the polarization data show a high degree of alignment perpendicular to the expected galactic magnetic field direction, and exhibit mean polarization fraction 1.38+/-0.08 (stat) +/-0.1 (sys) % at 100 GHz and 1.70 +/- 0.06 (stat) +/- 0.1 (sys) % at 150GHz. We find agreement in polarization fraction between QUaD 100 GHz and WMAP W band, the latter giving 1.1 +/- 0.4 %.
The Optical -- Mid-infrared Extinction Law of the l=165 Sightline in the Galactic Plane: Diversity of Extinction Law in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
Head-Tail Clouds: Drops to Probe the Diffuse Galactic Halo
头-尾高速云（HVC）是一种中性氢晕云，它似乎与扩散晕介质相互作用，这一点可以从其压缩的头部和相对扩散的尾部看出。本文给出了来自HI-Parkes全巡天（HIPASS）HVC星表的116个南天（d < 2 deg）头尾型HVC样本，该星表的空间分辨率为15.5弧分（45 pc at 10 kpc），灵敏度为NHI =2 x 10^（18）cm^（-2）（5 sigma）。35%的HIPASS致密和半致密HVC（CHVC和：HVC）可以从它们的形态分类为头-尾云。这些云在10千秒差距时的典型质量为730 M_sun（60千秒差距时为26，000 M_sun），考虑到它们在空间和运动学上的接近性，大多数云可能与更大的HVC复合体有关。这种接近性，加上它们与CHVC和没有头尾结构的HVC相似的性质，表明头尾云的寿命很短，与模拟预测一致。大约有一半的头尾云可以与麦哲伦星系联系在一起，其中大部分位于主导臂的区域，位置角指向麦哲伦星系运动的大致方向。在引导臂区域的丰度是一致的，这一特点是更接近银河系盘比麦哲伦流和通过一个更密集的晕介质移动。头-尾云将直接供给多相晕介质，而不是银河系盘，并为扩散的星系晕介质至少延伸到麦哲伦云的距离提供额外的证据。
Can galactic magnetic fields diffuse into the voids?
Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm University（斯德哥尔摩大学）；Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University（诺迪塔；皇家理工学院和斯德哥尔摩大学）；McWilliams Center for Cosmology & Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University（伊利亚国立大学）；Theoretical Physics Department, CERN（欧洲核子研究中心）；Département de Physique Théorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genève（日内瓦大学）；Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie（巴黎西岱大学）；Laboratory of Astrophysics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne（洛桑联邦理工学院）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá di Bologna（博洛尼亚大学）
Search for Diffuse Galactic Neutrinos with the Full ANTARES Telescope Dataset
Université de Strasbourg（斯特拉斯堡大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Université de Haute Alsace（上阿尔萨斯大学）；IFIC - Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC - Universitat de València)（IFIC-粒子物理研究所（瓦伦西亚大学-西班牙高等科学研究委员会））；Technical University of Catalonia（加泰罗尼亚理工大学）；Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC) - Universitat Politècnica de València（海岸综合管理研究所(IGIC)-巴伦西亚理工大学）；Aix Marseille Univ（艾克斯-马赛大学）；CNRS/IN2P3；CPPM；Université Paris Cité（巴黎西岱大学）；Astroparticule et Cosmologie（天体粒子与宇宙学）；CNES（法国国家空间研究中心）；LAM；National Center for Energy Sciences and Nuclear Techniques（国家能源科学与核技术研究中心）；INFN - Sezione di Bologna（意大利国家核物理研究所-博洛尼组分所）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università di Bologna（博洛尼亚大学物理与天文系）
The potential of diffuse Galactic Ridge neutrino measurements to constrain dark matter
Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid（马德里自治大学理论物理研究所）；Departamento de Fisica Teorica, M-15, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid（马德里自治大学理论物理系）；Department of Information Technology, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad San Pablo-CEU（圣巴勃罗ceu大学高等理工学院信息技术系）
A thin diffuse component of the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission and heating of the interstellar medium contributed by the radiation of Galactic X-ray binaries
