The power-law behaviours of angular spectra of polarized Galactic synchrotron

Abstract

We study the angular power spectra of polarized Galactic synchrotron in the range 10<l<800, at several frequencies between 0.4 and 2.7 GHz and at several Galactic latitudes up to near the North Galactic Pole. Electric- and magnetic-parity polarization spectra are found to have slopes around alpha _{E,B} = 1.4 - 1.5 in the Parkes and Effelsberg Galactic-Plane surveys, but strong local fluctuations of alpha_{E,B} are found at | b | ~ 10 degree from the 1.4 GHz Effelsberg survey. The C_{PIl} spectrum, which is insensitive to the polarization direction, is somewhat steeper, being alpha_{PI} = 1.6 - 1.8 for the same surveys. The low-resolution multifrequency survey of Brouw and Spoelstra (1976) shows some flattening of the spectra below 1 GHz, more intense for C_{E,Bl} than for C_{PIl}. In no case we find evidence for really steep spectra. The extrapolation to the cosmological window shows that at 90 GHz the detection of E-mode harmonics in the cosmic background radiation should not be disturbed by synchrotron, even around l~10 for a reionization optical depth tau _{ri}>~0.05.

20 pages, 9 figures, accepted to New Astronomy

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