Foreground Emission Randomization Due to Dynamics of Magnetized Interstellar Medium: WMAP and Planck Frequency Bands

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Using the results of numerical simulations and astrophysical observations (mainly in the WMAP and Planck frequency bands), it is shown that Galactic foreground emission becomes more sensitive to the mean magnetic field with the frequency, resulting in the appearance of two levels of its randomization due to the chaotic/turbulent dynamics of a magnetized interstellar medium dominated by magnetic helicity. The galactic foreground emission is more randomized at higher frequencies. The Galactic synchrotron and polarized dust emissions have been studied in detail. It is shown that the magnetic field imposes its level of randomization on the synchrotron and dust emission. The main method for the theoretical consideration used in this study is the Kolmogorov–Iroshnikov phenomenology in the frames of distributed chaos notion. Despite the vast differences in the values of physical parameters and spatio-temporal scales between the numerical simulations and the astrophysical observations, there is a quantitative agreement between the results of the astrophysical observations and the numerical simulations in the frames of the distributed chaos notion.

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