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Title:
Camouflaged Galactic cosmic microwave background polarization foregrounds: total and polarized contributions of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Authors:
Waelkens, André; Maturi, Matteo; Enßlin, Torsten
Affiliation:
AA(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching 85741, Germany), AB(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching 85741, Germany; Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Heidelberg 69120, Germany), AC(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching 85741, Germany)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 383, Issue 4, pp. 1425-1430. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
02/2008
Origin:
MNRAS
Astronomy Keywords:
polarization , scattering , cosmic microwave background
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12595.x
Bibliographic Code:
2008MNRAS.383.1425W

Abstract

We consider the role of the Galactic kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect as a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization foreground. While the Galactic thermal SZ effect has previously been studied and discarded as a potential CMB foreground, we find that the kinetic SZ effect is dominant in the Galactic case. We analyse the detectability of the kinetic SZ effect by means of an optimally matched filter technique applied to a simulation of an ideal observation. We obtain no detection, getting a signal-to-noise ratio of 0.1, thereby demonstrating that the kinetic SZ effect can also safely be ignored as a CMB foreground. However, we provide maps of the expected signal for inclusion in future high-precision data processing. Furthermore, we rule out the significant contamination of the polarized CMB signal by second scattering of Galactic kinetic SZ photons, since we show that the scattering of the CMB quadrupole photons by Galactic electrons is a stronger effect than the SZ second scattering, and has already been shown to produce no significant polarized contamination.

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