Detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK: II. Foreground components and optimised filtering schemes

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2004-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407090v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:1713-1736,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 22 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS, 05.Jul.2004

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10622.x

The PLANCK mission is the most sensitive all-sky CMB experiment currently planned. The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) will be especially suited for observing clusters of galaxies by their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. In order to assess PLANCKs SZ-capabilities in the presence of spurious signals, a simulation is presented that combines maps of the thermal and kinetic SZ-effects with a realisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), in addition to Galactic foregrounds (synchrotron emission, free-free emission, thermal emission from dust, CO-line radiation) as well as the sub-millimetric emission from celestial bodies of our Solar system. Additionally, observational issues such as the finite angular resolution and spatially non-uniform instrumental noise of PLANCKs sky maps are taken into account, yielding a set of all-sky flux maps, the auto-correlation and cross-correlation properties of which are examined in detail. In the second part of the paper, filtering schemes based on scale-adaptive and matched filtering are extended to spherical data sets, that enable the amplification of the weak SZ-signal in the presence of all contaminations stated above. The theory of scale-adaptive and matched filtering in the framework of spherical maps is developed, the resulting filter kernel shapes are discussed and their functionality is verified.

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