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Hans K. Eriksen

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All-sky modeling of Galactic emission at radio and microwave frequencies

We present a new all-sky model of low-frequency diffuse Galactic emission in the regime where synchrotron, free-free, and spinning dust dominate. The model extends the Planck 2015 diffuse component-separation analysis by incorporating recent radio and microwave surveys. We fit 35 full- and partial-sky maps at 1 degree resolution, including S-PASS at 2.30 GHz, C-BASS at 4.76 GHz, and QUIJOTE at 10-20 GHz, together with reprocessed WMAP and Planck LFI data from the Cosmoglobe collaboration and Planck HFI channels. Using a Bayesian parametric approach with Commander, we derive spatially varying amplitude and spectral parameter maps for the dominant low-frequency foreground components in total intensity. The main products are a full-sky synchrotron amplitude and spectral-index solution, an all-sky characterization of spinning dust emission with a single-component log-normal spectral model, and a reconstructed all-sky total-intensity map at 4.76 GHz tracing diffuse synchrotron emission with reduced systematics relative to Haslam 408 MHz. The revised low-frequency anchoring increases the recovered synchrotron amplitude: at 4.76 GHz, it is approximately a factor of two higher than the Planck 2015 prediction. The model achieves RMS temperature residuals below 10 $\mathrmμ$K over 95% of the sky up to 353 GHz, with fractional residuals below 1.5% in the Galactic plane and below 5% across QUIJOTE bands. Residual angular power spectra lie more than two orders of magnitude below the CMB spectrum. These products describe the transition between radio and microwave emission and provide a new reference for foreground modeling and sky-simulation applications.

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PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce full-sky surveys of intensity and polarization with a final combined-map noise level of 0.87 $μ$K arcmin for the required specifications, equivalent to 3300 Planck missions, and with our current best-estimate would have a noise level of 0.61 $μ$K arcmin (6400 Planck missions). PICO will either determine the energy scale of inflation by detecting the tensor to scalar ratio at a level $r=5\times 10^{-4}~(5σ)$, or will rule out with more than $5σ$ all inflation models for which the characteristic scale in the potential is the Planck scale. With LSST's data it could rule out all models of slow-roll inflation. PICO will detect the sum of neutrino masses at $>4σ$, constrain the effective number of light particle species with $ΔN_{\rm eff}<0.06~(2σ)$, and elucidate processes affecting the evolution of cosmic structures by measuring the optical depth to reionization with errors limited by cosmic variance and by constraining the evolution of the amplitude of linear fluctuations $σ_{8}(z)$ with sub-percent accuracy. Cross-correlating PICO's map of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect with LSST's gold sample of galaxies will precisely trace the evolution of thermal pressure with $z$. PICO's maps of the Milky Way will be used to determine the make up of galactic dust and the role of magnetic fields in star formation efficiency. With 21 full sky legacy maps in intensity and polarization, which cannot be obtained in any other way, the mission will enrich many areas of astrophysics. PICO is the only single-platform instrument with the combination of sensitivity, angular resolution, frequency bands, and control of systematic effects that can deliver this compelling, timely, and broad science.

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Cross-correlating Carbon Monoxide Line-intensity Maps with Spectroscopic and Photometric Galaxy Surveys

Line-intensity mapping (LIM or IM) is an emerging field of observational work, with strong potential to fit into a larger effort to probe large-scale structure and small-scale astrophysical phenomena using multiple complementary tracers. Taking full advantage of such complementarity means, in part, undertaking line-intensity surveys with galaxy surveys in mind. We consider the potential for detection of a cross-correlation signal between COMAP and blind surveys based on photometric redshifts (as in COSMOS) or based on spectroscopic data (as with the HETDEX survey of Lyman-$α$ emitters). We find that obtaining $σ_z/(1+z)\lesssim0.003$ accuracy in redshifts and $\gtrsim10^{-4}$ sources per Mpc$^3$ with spectroscopic redshift determination should enable a CO-galaxy cross spectrum detection significance at least twice that of the CO auto spectrum. Either a future targeted spectroscopic survey or a blind survey like HETDEX may be able to meet both of these requirements.

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