Isotropic Wavelets: a Powerful Tool to Extract Point Sources from CMB Maps

Details Isotropic Wavelets: a Powerful Tool to Extract Point Sources from CMB Maps Isotropic Wavelets: a Powerful Tool to Extract Point Sources from CMB Maps

1999-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912471v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 315 (2000) 757

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03462.x

It is the aim of this paper to introduce the use of isotropic wavelets to detect and determine the flux of point sources appearing in CMB maps. The most suited wavelet to detect point sources filtered with a Gaussian beam is the Mexican Hat. An analytical expression of the wavelet coefficient obtained in the presence of a point source is provided and used in the detection and flux estimation methods presented. For illustration the method is applied to two simulations (assuming Planck Mission characteristics) dominated by CMB (100 GHz) and dust (857 GHz) as these will be the two signals dominating at low and high frequency respectively in the Planck channels. We are able to detect bright sources above 1.58 Jy at 857 GHz (82% of all sources) and above 0.36 Jy at 100 GHz (100% of all) with errors in the flux estimation below 25%. The main advantage of this method is that nothing has to be assumed about the underlying field, i.e. about the nature and properties of the signal plus noise present in the maps. This is not the case in the detection method presented by Tegmark and Oliveira-Costa 1998. Both methods are compared producing similar results.

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