Structure of the Galactic Foreground

  • Ahn, Hyeseong (Department of Space Science and Geology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Cho, Jungyeon (Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 2019.10.14

Abstract

In this poster, we present a relation between the Galactic foregrounds and Galactic latitude to study the structure of the Galactic foregrounds. We propose that the standard deviation of observed values along a line of sight with Galactic latitude b ('σl.o.s') is inversely proportional to ${\sqrt{sin{\mid}b{\mid}}}$. To confirm this, we use synchrotron intensity data from the Planck archive and rotation measure (RM) data from the NVSS. We divided the sphere of the Galactic coordinate into bins with a constant surface area and calculated the average of standard deviation along Galactic latitude ('σlat'). We compared σlat ${\sqrt{sin{\mid}b{\mid}}}$ with σlat along Galactic latitude and found that σlat ${\sqrt{sin{\mid}b{\mid}}}$ is the most constant. These results support that the relation is reasonable.

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