Foreground contamination around the North Celestial Pole
de Oliveira-Costa, Angelica · Kogut, A. · Devlin, Mark J. · Netterfield, C. Barth · Page, Lyman A. · Wollack, Edward J.
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We cross-correlate the Saskatoon Q-Band data with different spatial template maps to quantify possible foreground contamination. We detect a correlation with the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) 100 microm map, which we interpret as being due to Galactic free-free emission. Subtracting this foreground power reduces the Saskatoon normalization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectrum by roughly 2%.
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