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使用WMAP最后一次查看微波烟雾/气泡

A Last Look at the Microwave Haze/Bubbles with WMAP

Gregory Dobler

摘要:

微波“烟霾”最初是随着威尔金森微波各向异性探测器(Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)的全天数据的首次发布而被发现的。它是朝向我们银河系中心的漫反射发射,其光谱行为使得它很难归类为这些波长的任何先前已知的发射机制。现在有了七年的WMAP数据公开,我们已经了解了很多关于烟雾的性质,随着费米伽马射线太空望远镜的数据发布和伽马射线烟雾/气泡的发现,我们已经在其他波长下证实了它的存在。随着WMAP任务的结束和普朗克任务准备发布数据,我最后看一下WMAP告诉我们的关于这个独特的银河系特征的起源。就像伽马射线一样,微波薄雾/气泡在纬度上相对于经度被拉长了大约两倍,在高纬度地区,微波发射在~35度以上急剧截止(相比之下,γ射线中为~50度)。产生微波同步加速器所需的电子硬谱与通过逆康普顿散射产生伽马射线发射所需的电子硬谱是一致的,尽管这些信号可能来自不同的光谱区域(微波约10 GeV,伽马约1 TeV)。虽然没有证据表明,在7年的WMAP数据显着的烟雾偏振,我明确表明,这是不可能的,这样的信号将被检测到以上的噪音。

英文摘要:

The microwave "haze" was first discovered with the initial release of the full sky data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. It is diffuse emission towards the center of our Galaxy with spectral behavior that makes it difficult to categorize as any of the previously known emission mechanisms at those wavelengths. With now seven years of WMAP data publicly available, we have learned much about the nature of the haze, and with the release of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and the discovery of the gamma-ray haze/bubbles, we have had a spectacular confirmation of its existence at other wavelengths. As the WMAP mission winds down and the Planck mission prepares to release data, I take a last look at what WMAP has to tell us about the origin of this unique Galactic feature. Much like the gamma-rays, the microwave haze/bubbles is elongated in latitude with respect to longitude by a factor of roughly two, and at high latitudes, the microwave emission cuts off sharply above ~35 degrees (compared to ~50 degrees in the gammas). The hard spectrum of electrons required to generate the microwave synchrotron is consistent with that required to generate the gamma-ray emission via inverse Compton scattering, though it is likely that these signals result from distinct regions of the spectrum (~10 GeV for the microwaves, ~1 TeV for the gammas). While there is no evidence for significant haze polarization in the 7-year WMAP data, I demonstrate explicitly that it is unlikely such a signal would be detectable above the noise.

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