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The Radio Background below 100 MHz

Dowell, Jayce ; Taylor, Greg B.

Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2018-05, Vol.858 (1), p.L9 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Austin: The American Astronomical Society

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  • Título:
    The Radio Background below 100 MHz
  • Autor: Dowell, Jayce ; Taylor, Greg B.
  • Assuntos: Background radiation ; Big Bang theory ; Calibration ; cosmic background radiation ; Cosmic microwave background ; cosmology: observations ; Dark matter ; Frequency ranges ; Power law ; Radiation ; Radio ; Temperature
  • É parte de: Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2018-05, Vol.858 (1), p.L9
  • Notas: AAS10696
  • Descrição: The recent detection of the "cosmic dawn" redshifted 21 cm signal at 78 MHz by the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signatures (EDGES) differs significantly from theoretical predictions. In particular, the absorption trough is roughly a factor of two stronger than the most optimistic theoretical models. The early interpretations of the origin of this discrepancy fall into two categories. The first is that there is increased cooling of the gas due to interactions with dark matter, while the second is that the background radiation field includes a contribution from a component in addition to the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this Letter we examine the feasibility of the second idea using new data from the first station of the Long Wavelength Array. The data span 40-80 MHz and provide important constraints on the present-day background in a frequency range where there are few surveys with absolute temperature calibration suitable for measuring the strength of the radio monopole. We find support for a strong, diffuse radio background that was suggested by the ARCARDE 2 results in the 3-10 GHz range. We find that this background is well modeled by a power law with a spectral index of −2.58 0.05 and a temperature at the rest frame 21 cm frequency of mK.
  • Editor: Austin: The American Astronomical Society
  • Idioma: Inglês
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