The Impact of Polarized Extragalactic Radio Sources on the Detection of CMB Anisotropies in Polarization

Figure 1

Differential number counts at 1.4 GHz as a function of total intensity (upper points) and of polarized intensity (lower points: black empty circles from NVSS; red empty diamonds from DRAO Planck Deep Fields; green squares from ATLBS). The continuous curve represents the number counts of AGNs from [44], whereas the dotted curve is obtained by the previous counts and assuming a constant fractional polarization of 3.3% for all ERS.