The BICEP2 instrument can not distinguish the cosmic contribution from other sources directly, so, measurements
of galactic dust collected by other sources, such as the Planck satellites were used.
Not exact matches
Our black hole's violent meeting with G2 began last year, and as it continues, it should give astronomers a chance to peer inside the
galactic center — the neighborhood around the black hole — rather than just simulate the swirling disc
of gas and
dust surrounding it.
In addition, everything behind the
galactic centre is shrouded by a dense wall
of stars and
dust, blanking out a whole area
of the Milky Way map.
For tens
of millions
of years, most have been far from the
galactic disc where
dust and gas resides, so heavy elements such as calcium should have sunk beyond detection long before.
Moving out from this central
galactic bulge, the panorama sweeps from the galaxy's central bulge across lanes
of stars and
dust to the sparser outer disk.
Data from the BICEP2 telescope (shown) may have provided the first evidence
of gravitational waves and cosmic inflation, but scientists aren't sure how
galactic dust affects the signal.
But teasing out this primordial signal is difficult, as swirls in the CMB could also be caused by
galactic dust, and confidence had started to wane by the official publication
of the BICEP2 results in June.
Now details
of a new analysis
of their results have leaked, and they seem to reveal that
galactic dust is the likely cause
of their observations.
The angular power spectrum
of polarized
dust emission at intermediate and high
galactic latitudes.
It also suggests that
dust in extended
galactic haloes may be obscuring our view
of the farthest objects in the Universe.
Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly
galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging
of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.
He is a specialist on active
galactic nuclei, superbright
galactic cores thought to be caused by giant black holes sucking in and heating up quantities
of gas and
dust.
Using for the first time the newest Planck maps available, Puget and his collaborators have directly examined the polarization
of dust in these high
galactic regions rather than extrapolating from dustier regions in the plane
of the Milky Way.
Previous Planck analyses did not show the amount
of dust polarization in that patch
of sky or other high -
galactic - latitude regions
of the Milky Way because
of the relative sparseness
of dust and low signal compared to noise in these regions (see «Milky Way map skirts question
of gravitational waves»).
Dust grains in the Galaxy could imprint a similar polarization pattern in the CMB as gravitational waves can, but based on several different predictions
of the
galactic contribution the researchers concluded that their data was more likely to originate from primordial gravitational waves.
Averaging over some 350 high -
galactic - latitude patches
of sky similar in size to the region observed by BICEP2, Puget reported that polarization from interstellar
dust grains plays a significant role and might account for much
of the BICEP2 signal that had been attributed to inflation - generated gravitational waves.
A popular theory known as the «unified theory» suggests that differences in the brightness
of active
galactic nuclei, as seen from here on Earth, are due to the placement
of this donut
of obscuring
dust relative to our angle
of observation.
The bright center band in the above image represents heated interstellar
dust as seen along the
galactic plane
of the Milky Way.
Many active
galactic nuclei are surrounded by large, dark, donut - shaped clouds
of gas and
dust, as seen in this artist's rendering.
Some galaxies drive
galactic winds, expelling
dust and gas at hundreds
of kilometers per second into the intergalactic medium, the space between galaxies.
This fuzzy warmth from the
galactic center has puzzled scientists for 30 years and clearer observation
of it has led Ghez and her collaborators to conclude that it is most likely superheated interstellar
dust on the verge
of falling into the black hole in the paper presenting their findings in the current issue
of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
As a result, many specific structural features
of the spiral arms are not well known, especially when compared with other spirals observed outside the Milky Way such as Andromeda (which is located a few million ly above the
galactic plane
of obscuring
dust in the Milky Way's disk.
Because
of all the intervening
dust and gas lying in the galaxy it is very hard to see much beyond this distance in the
galactic plane.
The new Hubble observations reveal that the dark tendrils
of dust encircling the
galactic core have a width
of about 200 light - years, and a density roughly 10 times greater than the surrounding gas.
The
dust clouds
of the Galaxy are narrowly limited to the plane
of the Milky Way, though very low - density
dust can be detected even near the
galactic poles.
Giant
dust clouds block most
of the starlight coming from the
galactic center.
We have clearly detected FIR
dust emission extended in the halo
of the galaxy; there are two filamentary emission structures extending from the
galactic disk up to 9 kpc in the northern and 6 kpc in the northwestern direct... ▽ More We present new far - infrared (FIR) images
of the edge - on starburst galaxy NGC253 obtained with the Far - Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard AKARI at wavelengths
of 90 um and 140 um.
Detection
of the spiral's
dust in a bi-symmetric structure provides strong evidence
of its position deep inside the giant elliptical host while the vast amounts
of radio, visual, and x-ray emissions are a result
of the energy released by this continuing
galactic merger (or «consumption»
of a satellite galaxy).
SDSS studies have probed the dark matter environments
of quasars through clustering measurements, revealed populations
of quasars whose central engines are hidden by obscuring
dust, captured changes in quasar spectra that show clouds moving in the gravitational grip
of the central black hole, and allowed a comprehensive census
of the much fainter accreting black holes (active
galactic nuclei, or AGN) in present - day galaxies.
We are treated to thundering
galactic fight sequences, accompanied by Wagnerian music, and some eerie scenes in which characters appear to turn to
dust in front
of our eyes.
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