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New insight into EM radiation from spinning dust and its influence on the Cosmic Microwave Background

Ariel Guerreiro·José Tito Mendonça·Robert Bingham
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Dust is ubiquitous in the Universe and its influence on the observed Electromagnetic (EM) radiation needs to be correctly addressed. In recent years it became clear that scattering of EM radiation from interstellar dust grains could change the local properties of the observed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Here we consider the relevant processes of emission and scattering of EM radiation from spinning dust particles, and discuss their possible influence on the CMB. In particular, we show that scattered radiation can establish a correlation between different spectral components of galactic dipolar emission. This could explain the observed correlation between the CMB and the 100-micron thermal emission form interstellar dust. Another important property of CMB is related with its polarisation anisotropies, and the observation of a cosmological B-mode. We show that scattering of CMB radiation from dust grains in the presence of a static magnetic field could indeed create a B-mode spectral component, which is very similar to that due to primordial gravitational waves. This can be described by a kind of Cotton-Mutton effect on the CMB radiation.

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Ariel Guerreiro, José Tito Mendonça, Robert Bingham. 2019-06-19. New insight into EM radiation from spinning dust and its influence on the Cosmic Microwave Background. https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00540

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