An excess of emission in the dark cloud LDN1111 with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

We present observations of the Lynds' dark nebula LDN1111 made at microwave frequencies between 14.6 and 17.2GHz with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. We find emission in this frequency band in excess of a thermal free-free spectrum extrapolated from data at 1.4GHz with matched uv coverage. This excess is >15σ above the predicted emission. We fit the measured spectrum using the spinning dust model of Draine & Lazarian and find the best-fitting model parameters agree well with those derived from the Scuba data for this object by Visser, Richer & Chandler.

We request that any reference to this Letter should be cited as `AMI Consortium; Scaife et al. 2008'.

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