FOREGROUNDS IN THE BOOMERANG-LDB DATA:
A PRELIMINARY rms ANALYSIS
S. MASI (1), P.A.R. ADE(2), J. BOCK (3), A. BOSCALERI(4),
B.P. CRILL (5), P. DE BERNARDIS (1), K. GANGA (5), M. GIACOMETTI (1), E. HIVON (5), V.V. HRISTOV (5), A.E. LANGE (5), L. MARTINIS (6), P.D. MAUSKOPF (7), T. MONTROY (8), C.B. NETTERFIELD (9), E. PASCALE (4), F. PIACENTINI (1), S. PRUNET
(9), G. ROMEO (10), J.E. RUHL (8), F. SCARAMUZZI (6)
(1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
(2) Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK
(3) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
(4) IROE-CNR, Firenze, Italy
(5) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
(6) ENEA, Frascati, Italy
(7) Department of Physics, University of Cardiff, UK
(8) Department of Physics, University of Santa Barbara, CA, USA
(9) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toronto, Canada
(10) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Roma, Italy
Abstract:
foregrounds. BOOMERanG detects dust emission
at moderately low galactic latitudes ($b > -20^o$) in bands centered at
90, 150, 240, 410 GHz. At higher Galactic latitudes, we use the BOOMERanG
data to set conservative upper limits on the level of contamination at 90
and 150 GHz. We find that the mean square signal correlated with
the IRAS/DIRBE dust template is less than 3$\%$ of the mean square
signal due to CMB anisotropy.