We present predicted full-sky maps of submillimeter and microwave emission from the diffuse interstellar dust in the Galaxy. These maps are extrapolated from the 100 micron emission and 100/240 micron flux ratio maps that Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis (1998; SFD98) generated from IRAS and COBE DIRBE data. Results are presented for a number of physically plausible emissivity models.
The correlation of COBE FIRAS data with the simple SFD98 (\nu^2 emissivity power law) extrapolation is much tighter than with other common dust templates such as HI column density or 100 micron emission. Despite the apparent success of the SFD98 extrapolation, the assumed \nu^2 emissivity is inconsistent with the FIRAS data below 800 GHz. Indeed, no power law emissivity function fits the FIRAS data from 200 - 2100 GHz. In this paper we provide a formalism for a multi-component model for the dust emission. A two-component model with a mixture of silicate and carbon-dominated grains (motivated by Pollack et al., 1994) provides a fit to an accuracy of about 15% to all the FIRAS data over the entire high-latitude sky. Small systematic differences are found between the atomic and molecular phases of the ISM.
COBE/DMR has observed microwave emission that is correlated with thermal dust emission. However, this emission is higher than our model predicts by factors of 1.2, 2.4 and 20 at 90, 53 and 31 GHz, respectively. This provides evidence that another emission mechanism dominates dust emission at frequencies below about 60 GHz.
Our predictions for the thermal (vibrational) emission from Galactic dust at \nu < 3000 GHz are available for general use. These full-sky predictions can be made at the DIRBE resolution of 40' or at the higher resolution of 6.1 arcminutes from the SFD98 DIRBE-corrected IRAS maps.
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