A novel multi-frequency technique for the detection of point sources in Cosmic Microwave Background maps

Details A novel multi-frequency technique for the detection of point sources in Cosmic Microwave Background maps A novel multi-frequency technique for the detection of point sources in Cosmic Microwave Background maps

2008-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/0808.2884v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14336.x

In this work we address the problem of simultaneous multi-frequency detection of extragalactic point sources in maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background. We apply a new linear filtering technique, the so called `matched matrix filters', that incorporates full spatial information, including the cross-correlation among channels, without making any a priori assumption about the spectral behaviour of the sources. A substantial reduction of the background is achieved thanks to the optimal combination of filtered maps. We describe in detail the new technique and we apply it to the detection/estimation of radio sources in realistic all-sky Planck simulations at 30, 44, 70 and 100 GHz. Then we compare the results with the mono-frequential approach based on the standard matched filter, in terms of reliability, completeness and flux accuracy of the resulting point source catalogs. The new filters outperform the standard matched filters for all these indexes at 30, 44 and 70 GHz, whereas at 100 GHz both kind of filters have a similar performance. We find a noticeable increment of the number of true detections for a fixed reliability level. In particular, for a 95% reliability we practically double the number of detections at 30, 44 and 70 GHz.

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