Seven-year WMAP catalog

DOI

We present updated estimates of Galactic foreground emission using seven years of WMAP data. Using the power spectrum of differences between multi-frequency template-cleaned maps, we find no evidence for foreground contamination outside of the updated (KQ85y7) foreground mask. We place a 15uK upper bound on rms foreground contamination in the cleaned maps used for cosmological analysis. Further, the cleaning process requires only three power-law foregrounds outside of the mask. We find no evidence for polarized foregrounds beyond those from soft (steep-spectrum) synchrotron and thermal dust emission; in particular we find no indication in the polarization data of an extra "haze" of hard synchrotron emission from energetic electrons near the Galactic center. We provide an updated map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the internal linear combination method, updated foreground masks, and updates to point source catalogs using two different techniques. With additional years of data, we now detect 471 point sources using a five-band technique and 417 sources using a three-band CMB-free technique. In total there are 62 newly detected point sources, a 12% increase over the five-year release.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/192/15/table5 (Seven-year WMAP five-band point source catalog)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/192/15/table6 (Seven-year WMAP CMB-free QVW point source catalog)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21920015
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/192/15
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/192/15
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/192/15
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/192/15
Provenance
Creator Gold B.; Odegard N.; Weiland J.L.; Hill R.S.; Kogut A.; Bennett C.L.,Hinshaw G.; Chen X.; Dunkley J.; Halpern M.; Jarosik N.; Komatsu E.,Larson D.; Limon M.; Meyer S.S.; Nolta M.R.; Page L.; Smith K.M.,Spergel D.N.; Tucker G.S.; Wollack E.; Wright E.L.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2012
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics