Foreground analysis from the 1-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe   (WMAP) data
  We present a detailed analysis on the phases of the WMAP foregrounds (synchrotron, free-free and dust emission) of the WMAP K-W bands in order to estimate the significance of the variation of the spectral indices at different components. We first extract the spectral-index varying signals by assuming that the invariant part among different frequency bands have 100% cross-correlation of phases. We then use the minimization of variance, which is normally used for extracting the CMB signals, to extract the frequency independent signals. Such a common signal in each foreground component could play a significant role for any kind of component separation methods, because the methods cannot discriminate frequency independent foregrounds and CMB. 
Pavel D. Naselsky (1,2), Oleg V. Verkhodanov (3), Lung-Yih Chiang (1),   Igor D. Novikov (1,4) ((1) NBI, Denmark (2) Rostov,...