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| author | Todarello, Elisa Regis, Marco Bianchini, Federico Singal, Jack Branchini, Enzo Cowie, Fraser J. Heston, Sean Horiuchi, Shunsaku Lucero, Danielle Offringa, Andre |
| author_facet | Todarello, Elisa Regis, Marco Bianchini, Federico Singal, Jack Branchini, Enzo Cowie, Fraser J. Heston, Sean Horiuchi, Shunsaku Lucero, Danielle Offringa, Andre |
| contents | The origin of the radio synchrotron background (RSB) is currently unknown. Its understanding might have profound implications in fundamental physics or might reveal a new class of radio emitters. In this work, we consider the scenario in which the RSB is due to extragalactic radio sources and measure the angular cross-correlation of LOFAR images of the diffuse radio sky with matter tracers at different redshifts, provided by galaxy catalogs and CMB lensing. We compare these measured cross-correlations to those expected for models of RSB sources. We find that low-redshift populations of discrete sources are excluded by the data, while higher redshift explanations are compatible with available observations. We also conclude that at least 20\% of the RSB surface brightness level must originate from populations tracing the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe, indicating that at least this fraction of the RSB is of extragalactic origin. Future measurements of the correlation between the RSB and tracers of high-redshift sources will be crucial to constraining the source population of the RSB. |
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| spellingShingle | Constraints on the origin of the radio synchrotron background via angular correlations Todarello, Elisa Regis, Marco Bianchini, Federico Singal, Jack Branchini, Enzo Cowie, Fraser J. Heston, Sean Horiuchi, Shunsaku Lucero, Danielle Offringa, Andre Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The origin of the radio synchrotron background (RSB) is currently unknown. Its understanding might have profound implications in fundamental physics or might reveal a new class of radio emitters. In this work, we consider the scenario in which the RSB is due to extragalactic radio sources and measure the angular cross-correlation of LOFAR images of the diffuse radio sky with matter tracers at different redshifts, provided by galaxy catalogs and CMB lensing. We compare these measured cross-correlations to those expected for models of RSB sources. We find that low-redshift populations of discrete sources are excluded by the data, while higher redshift explanations are compatible with available observations. We also conclude that at least 20\% of the RSB surface brightness level must originate from populations tracing the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe, indicating that at least this fraction of the RSB is of extragalactic origin. Future measurements of the correlation between the RSB and tracers of high-redshift sources will be crucial to constraining the source population of the RSB. |
| title | Constraints on the origin of the radio synchrotron background via angular correlations |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17641 |