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WMAP 5年地图中的盲和非盲源检测

Blind and non-blind source detection in WMAP 5-year maps

M. Massardi, M. López-Caniego, J. González-Nuevo, D. Herranz, G. De Zotti, J. L. Sanz

摘要:

我们分析了利用MHW 2滤波器应用于威尔金森微波各向异性探测器(WMAP)5年地图的盲和非盲检测技术的源检测和通量密度估计的效率。与AT20G亮源样本(Massardi等人,2008年)进行比较,完整性限制为0.5 Jy,在20 GHz处精确测量通量,接近WMAP地图的最低频率,使我们能够评估两种方法检测到的样本的完整性和可靠性,以及通量和误差估计的准确性,以及它们在天空中的变化。我们的程序给出的通量估计的不确定性被证明是约2的因素低于与AT20G测量的均方根差,与平滑的波动场产生的地图过滤。通量估计被认为是基本上是无偏的,除了接近检测限,相当一部分的通量被认为是膨胀的基础积极波动的贡献。这与对与通量密度估计的真实误差相关的爱丁顿偏差的预期一致。发现盲法和非盲法是互补的:它们都可以检测到另一种方法错过的源。结合两种方法在WMAP 5年图上的结果,我们扩展了基于WMAP 3年图的非盲生成的新河外WMAP点源(NEWPS)目录(Lopez-Caniego et al. 2007)。在删除了可能是假的、没有被识别为已知射电源的天体之后,NEWPS目录的新版本NEWPS_5yr包括484个源,探测到的信噪比SNR> 5。

英文摘要:

We have analyzed the efficiency in source detection and flux density estimation of blind and non-blind detection techniques exploiting the MHW2 filter applied to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year maps. A comparison with the AT20G Bright Source Sample (Massardi et al. 2008), with a completeness limit of 0.5 Jy and accurate flux measurements at 20 GHz, close to the lowest frequency of WMAP maps, has allowed us to assess the completeness and the reliability of the samples detected with the two approaches, as well as the accuracy of flux and error estimates, and their variations across the sky. The uncertainties on flux estimates given by our procedure turned out to be about a factor of 2 lower than the rms differences with AT20G measurements, consistent with the smoothing of the fluctuation field yielded by map filtering. Flux estimates were found to be essentially unbiased except that, close to the detection limit, a substantial fraction of fluxes are found to be inflated by the contribution of underlying positive fluctuations. This is consistent with expectations for the Eddington bias associated to the true errors on flux density estimates. The blind and non-blind approaches are found to be complementary: each of them allows the detection of sources missed by the other. Combining results of the two methods on the WMAP 5-year maps we have expanded the non-blindly generated New Extragalactic WMAP Point Source (NEWPS) catalogue (Lopez-Caniego et al. 2007) that was based on WMAP 3-year maps. After having removed the probably spurious objects not identified with known radio sources, the new version of the NEWPS catalogue, NEWPS_5yr comprises 484 sources detected with a signal-to-noise ratio SNR>5.

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