Polarized CMB Foregrounds: What do we know and how bad is it?

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Polarized foregrounds are going to be a serious challenge for detecting CMB cosmological B-modes. Both diffuse Galactic emission and extragalactic sources contribute significantly to the power spectrum on large angular scales. At low frequencies, Galactic synchrotron emission will dominate with fractional polarization 20-40% at high latitudes while radio sources can contribute significantly even on large (1∘) angular scales. Nevertheless, simulations suggest that a detection at the level of r=0.001 might be achievable if the foregrounds are not too complex.