Recent Papers on Foregrounds

1. astro-ph/9903248 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: WOMBAT & FORECAST: Making Realistic Maps of the Microwave Sky

Authors: Andrew H. Jaffe, Eric Gawiser, Douglas Finkbeiner, Joanne C. Baker, Amedeo Balbi, Marc Davis, Shaul Hanany, William Holzapfel, Mark Krumholz, Leonidas Moustakas, James Robinson, Evan Scannapieco, George F. Smoot, Joseph Silk
Comments: 10 pages, color figures, WOMBAT Challenge simulations now available at: this http URL . Invited review in "Microwave Foregrounds", eds. A. de Oliveira-Costa & M. Tegmark (ASP, San Francisco, 1999)

2. astro-ph/9902201 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Synchrotron Radiation as CMB Foreground

Authors: George F. Smoot
Comments: 17 pages, including 7 figures. Invited review in "Microwave Foregrounds", eds. A. de Oliveira-Costa & M. Tegmark (ASP, San Francisco, 1999)

3. astro-ph/9902103 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Planck Surveyor mission: astrophysical prospects

Authors: G. De Zotti (1), L. Toffolatti (1,2), F. Argüeso (3), R.D. Davies (4), P. Mazzotta (5), R.B. Partridge (6), G.F. Smoot (7), N. Vittorio (5) ((1) Osservatorio di Padova, Italy, (2) Dpto. de Fisica, Univ. de Oviedo, Spain, (3) Dpto. de Matematicas, Univ de Oviedo, Spain, (4) NRAL, Univ. of Manchester, UK, (5) Univ. di Roma ``Tor Vergata'', Italy, (6) Haverford College, PA, USA, (7) LBNL, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
Comments: 20 pages, Latex (use aipproc2.sty, aipproc2.cls, epsfig.sty), 10 PostScript figures; invited review talk, Proc. of the Conference: "3K Cosmology", Roma, Italy, 5-10 October 1998, AIP Conference Proc, in press Note: Figures 6 and 7 have been replaced by new and correct versions

4.  astro-ph/9812237 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The WOMBAT Challenge: A "Hounds and Hares" Exercise for Cosmology

Authors: Eric Gawiser, Douglas Finkbeiner, Andrew Jaffe, Joanne C. Baker, Amedeo Balbi, Marc Davis, Shaul Hanany, William Holzapfel, Leonidas Moustakas, James Robinson, Evan Scannapieco, George F. Smoot, Joseph Silk (U.C. Berkeley)
Comments: 11 pages, details of Challenge exercise and foreground models available at this http URL

5. astro-ph/9811311 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Contribution of Bright Extragalactic Radio Sources to Microwave Anisotropy

Authors: Aaron Sokasian (Cornell University), Eric Gawiser, George F. Smoot (U. C. Berkeley)
Comments: submitted to Astrophysical Journal, 16 ApJ preprint pages including 3 figures, 1 in color

6. astro-ph/9801121 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Galactic Free-free and H-alpha Emission

Authors: George F. Smoot (UC Berkeley)
Comments: 10 pages including 3 figures