CAUP Seminar - "PowellSnakes", a fast Bayesian detection method of compact objects - 19 abril 2013

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"PowellSnakes", a fast Bayesian detection method of compact objects. The extraction of Planck's nominal SZ clusters of galaxies catalogue 

Pedro Carvalho

Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge

 

Resumo

"PowellSnakes" (PwS) is a fast Bayesian algorithm designed for detecting compact objects immersed in a diffuse background. PwS was selected and successfully employed by the Planck consortium in the production of its first public deliverable: the Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) and later as an extraction/characterisation tool of Planck's nominal mission Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) clusters of galaxies catalogue. We present the reasons why Planck's SZ catalogue needed a Bayesian method and why a simple naïve implementation was not practical. An emphasis is placed on the necessity of a multi-frequency, multi-model detection algorithm in order to achieve optimality.

 

19 de abril de 2013 | 13:30
 
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