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AMI-CL J0300+2613: A Galactic anomalous-microwave-emission ring masquerading as a galaxy cluster

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Authors

Perrott, YC 
Cantwell, TM 
Carey, SH 
Elwood, PJ 
Feroz, F 

Abstract

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) carried out a blind survey for galaxy clusters via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect decrements between 2008 and 2011. The first detection, known as AMI-CL J0300+2613, has been reobserved with AMI equipped with a new digital correlator with high dynamic range. The combination of the new AMI data and more recent high-resolution sub-mm and infra-red maps now shows the feature in fact to be a ring of positive dust-correlated Galactic emission, which is likely to be anomalous microwave emission (AME). If so, this is the first completely blind detection of AME at arcminute scales.

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Keywords

dust, extinction, galaxies: clusters: individual: AMI-CL J0300+2613, infrared: ISM, radio continuum: ISM

Journal Title

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Journal ISSN

0035-8711
1365-2966

Volume Title

473

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)
Sponsorship
STFC (1364729)
STFC (1490819)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M001172/1)