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Title: POWER-LAW TEMPLATE FOR INFRARED POINT-SOURCE CLUSTERING

Abstract

We perform a combined fit to angular power spectra of unresolved infrared (IR) point sources from the Planck satellite (at 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz, over angular scales 100 {approx}< l {approx}< 2200), the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST; 250, 350, and 500 {mu}m; 1000 {approx}< l {approx}< 9000), and from correlating BLAST and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT; 148 and 218 GHz) maps. We find that the clustered power over the range of angular scales and frequencies considered is well fitted by a simple power law of the form C{sup clust}{sub l}{proportional_to}l{sup -n} with n = 1.25 {+-} 0.06. While the IR sources are understood to lie at a range of redshifts, with a variety of dust properties, we find that the frequency dependence of the clustering power can be described by the square of a modified blackbody, {nu}{sup {beta}} B({nu}, T{sub eff}), with a single emissivity index {beta} = 2.20 {+-} 0.07 and effective temperature T{sub eff} = 9.7 K. Our predictions for the clustering amplitude are consistent with existing ACT and South Pole Telescope results at around 150 and 220 GHz, as is our prediction for the effective dust spectral index, which we find to be {alpha}{submore » 150-220} = 3.68 {+-} 0.07 between 150 and 220 GHz. Our constraints on the clustering shape and frequency dependence can be used to model the IR clustering as a contaminant in cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurements. The combined Planck and BLAST data also rule out a linear bias clustering model.« less

Authors:
;  [1]; ; ; ; ;  [2];  [3];  [4]; ;  [5]; ;  [6]; ; ;  [7];  [8];  [9]
  1. Sub-department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
  2. Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Jadwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
  3. Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  4. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8 (Canada)
  5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (United States)
  6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
  7. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
  8. Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 (South Africa)
  9. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 665, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22037026
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 752; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; AMPLITUDES; ANISOTROPY; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; COSMIC DUST; COSMOLOGY; EMISSION SPECTRA; EMISSIVITY; ENERGY SPECTRA; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GALAXIES; GHZ RANGE; INDEXES; INFRARED SPECTRA; POINT SOURCES; RED SHIFT; RELICT RADIATION; STAR CLUSTERS

Citation Formats

Addison, Graeme E, Dunkley, Joanna, Hajian, Amir, Das, Sudeep, Hincks, Adam D, Page, Lyman A, Staggs, Suzanne T, Viero, Marco, Bond, J Richard, Devlin, Mark J, Reese, Erik D, Halpern, Mark, Scott, Douglas, Hlozek, Renee, Marriage, Tobias A, Spergel, David N, Moodley, Kavilan, and Wollack, Edward. POWER-LAW TEMPLATE FOR INFRARED POINT-SOURCE CLUSTERING. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/120.
Addison, Graeme E, Dunkley, Joanna, Hajian, Amir, Das, Sudeep, Hincks, Adam D, Page, Lyman A, Staggs, Suzanne T, Viero, Marco, Bond, J Richard, Devlin, Mark J, Reese, Erik D, Halpern, Mark, Scott, Douglas, Hlozek, Renee, Marriage, Tobias A, Spergel, David N, Moodley, Kavilan, & Wollack, Edward. POWER-LAW TEMPLATE FOR INFRARED POINT-SOURCE CLUSTERING. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/120
Addison, Graeme E, Dunkley, Joanna, Hajian, Amir, Das, Sudeep, Hincks, Adam D, Page, Lyman A, Staggs, Suzanne T, Viero, Marco, Bond, J Richard, Devlin, Mark J, Reese, Erik D, Halpern, Mark, Scott, Douglas, Hlozek, Renee, Marriage, Tobias A, Spergel, David N, Moodley, Kavilan, and Wollack, Edward. 2012. "POWER-LAW TEMPLATE FOR INFRARED POINT-SOURCE CLUSTERING". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/120.
@article{osti_22037026,
title = {POWER-LAW TEMPLATE FOR INFRARED POINT-SOURCE CLUSTERING},
author = {Addison, Graeme E and Dunkley, Joanna and Hajian, Amir and Das, Sudeep and Hincks, Adam D and Page, Lyman A and Staggs, Suzanne T and Viero, Marco and Bond, J Richard and Devlin, Mark J and Reese, Erik D and Halpern, Mark and Scott, Douglas and Hlozek, Renee and Marriage, Tobias A and Spergel, David N and Moodley, Kavilan and Wollack, Edward},
abstractNote = {We perform a combined fit to angular power spectra of unresolved infrared (IR) point sources from the Planck satellite (at 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz, over angular scales 100 {approx}< l {approx}< 2200), the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST; 250, 350, and 500 {mu}m; 1000 {approx}< l {approx}< 9000), and from correlating BLAST and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT; 148 and 218 GHz) maps. We find that the clustered power over the range of angular scales and frequencies considered is well fitted by a simple power law of the form C{sup clust}{sub l}{proportional_to}l{sup -n} with n = 1.25 {+-} 0.06. While the IR sources are understood to lie at a range of redshifts, with a variety of dust properties, we find that the frequency dependence of the clustering power can be described by the square of a modified blackbody, {nu}{sup {beta}} B({nu}, T{sub eff}), with a single emissivity index {beta} = 2.20 {+-} 0.07 and effective temperature T{sub eff} = 9.7 K. Our predictions for the clustering amplitude are consistent with existing ACT and South Pole Telescope results at around 150 and 220 GHz, as is our prediction for the effective dust spectral index, which we find to be {alpha}{sub 150-220} = 3.68 {+-} 0.07 between 150 and 220 GHz. Our constraints on the clustering shape and frequency dependence can be used to model the IR clustering as a contaminant in cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurements. The combined Planck and BLAST data also rule out a linear bias clustering model.},
doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/120},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22037026}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
issn = {0004-637X},
number = 2,
volume = 752,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Wed Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}