Point Source Detection using the Spherical Mexican Hat Wavelet on simulated all-sky Planck maps

Details Point Source Detection using the Spherical Mexican Hat Wavelet on simulated all-sky Planck maps Point Source Detection using the Spherical Mexican Hat Wavelet on simulated all-sky Planck maps

2002-12-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212578v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 344 (2003) 89

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 11 figures, revised version (minor changes). MNRAS accepted; high quality color figures upon request to the authors

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06792.x

We present an estimation of the point source (PS) catalogue that could be extracted from the forthcoming ESA Planck mission data. We have applied the Spherical Mexican Hat Wavelet (SMHW) to simulated all-sky maps that include CMB, Galactic emission (thermal dust, free-free and synchrotron), thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and PS emission, as well as instrumental white noise. This work is an extension of the one presented in Vielva et al. (2001a). We have developed an algorithm focused on a fast local optimal scale determination, that is crucial to achieve a PS catalogue with a large number of detections and a low flux limit. An important effort has been also done to reduce the CPU time processor for spherical harmonic transformation, in order to perform the PS detection in a reasonable time. The presented algorithm is able to provide a PS catalogue above fluxes: 0.48 Jy (857 GHz), 0.49 Jy (545 GHz), 0.18 Jy (353 GHz), 0.12 Jy (217 GHz), 0.13 Jy (143 GHz), 0.16 Jy (100 GHz HFI), 0.19 Jy (100 GHz LFI), 0.24 Jy (70 GHz), 0.25 Jy (44 GHz) and 0.23 Jy (30 GHz). We detect around 27700 PS at the highest frequency Planck channel and 2900 at the 30 GHz one. The completeness level are: 70% (857 GHz), 75% (545 GHz), 70% (353 GHz), 80% (217 GHz), 90% (143 GHz), 85% (100 GHz HFI), 80% (100 GHz LFI), 80% (70 GHz), 85% (44 GHz) and 80% (30 GHz). In addition, we can find several PS at different channels, allowing the study of the spectral behaviour and the physical processes acting on them. We also present the basic procedure to apply the method in maps convolved with asymmetric beams. The algorithm takes ~ 72 hours for the most CPU time demanding channel (857 GHz) in a Compaq HPC320 (Alpha EV68 1 GHz processor) and requires 4 GB of RAM memory.

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