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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 388, Issue 1, Pages 247-260Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13376.x
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methods : data analysis; astronomical data bases : miscellaneous; ISM : structure; diffuse radiation; radio continuum : ISM
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Understanding diffuse Galactic radio emission is interesting both in its own right and for minimizing foreground contamination of cosmological measurements. cosmic microwave background experiments have focused on frequencies greater than or similar to 10 GHz, whereas 21-cm tomography of the high-redshift universe will mainly focus on less than or similar to 0.2 GHz, for which less is currently known about Galactic emission. Motivated by this, we present a global sky model derived from all publicly available total power large-area radio surveys, digitized with optical character recognition when necessary and compiled into a uniform format, as well as the new Villa Elisa data extending the 1.42-GHz map to the entire sky. We quantify statistical and systematic uncertainties in these surveys by comparing them with various global multifrequency model fits. We find that a principal component based model with only three components can fit the 11 most accurate data sets (at 10, 22, 45 and 408 MHz and 1.42, 2.326, 23, 33, 41, 61, 94 GHz) to an accuracy around 1-10 per cent depending on frequency and sky region. Both our data compilation and our software returning a predicted all-sky map at any frequency from 10 MHz to 100 GHz are publicly available at http://space.mit.edu/home/angelica/gsm.
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