Galactic Foregrounds in OVRO and UCSB South Pole 1994 Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Data

Abstract

We study Galactic emission foreground contamination of the OVRO and UCSB South Pole 1994 cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data by cross-correlating with templates of infrared dust emission and new high resolution $H_{\alpha }$ data. $H_{\alpha }$ data provide rough upper limits on the level of free-free emission in the data sets. The cross-correlation analysis does not contradict a two component foreground emission hypothesis, with the two dust-correlated components being free-free emission and spinning dust emission.

21 pages, 3 figures, ApJ, in press

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