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    Gold, B; Bennett, C. L; Hill, R. S; Hinshaw, G; Odegard, N; Page, L; Spergel, D. N; Weiland, J. L; Dunkley, J; Halpern, M; Jarosik, N; Kogut, A; Komatsu, E; Larson, D; Meyer, S. S; Nolta, M. R; Wollack, E; Wright, E. L

    The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 02/2009, Letnik: 180, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    We present a new estimate of foreground emission in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. The new technique delivers maps of each foreground component for a variety of foreground models with estimates of the uncertainty of each foreground component, and it provides an overall goodness-of-fit estimate. The resulting foreground maps are in broad agreement with those from previous techniques used both within the collaboration and by other authors. We find that for WMAP data, a simple model with power-law synchrotron, free-free, and thermal dust components fits 90% of the sky with a reduced xi 2 Delta of 1.14. However, the model does not work well inside the Galactic plane. The addition of either synchrotron steepening or a modified spinning dust model improves the fit. This component may account for up to 14% of the total flux at the Ka band (33 GHz). We find no evidence for foreground contamination of the cosmic microwave background temperature map in the 85% of the sky used for cosmological analysis.