Title
Multiple-component Decomposition from Millimeter Single-channel Data
Date Issued
01 March 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rodriguez-Montoya I.
Sánchez-Argüelles D.
Aretxaga I.
Bertone E.
Chávez-Dagostino M.
Hughes D.H.
Montaa A.
Wilson G.W.
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Publisher(s)
Institute of Physics Publishing
Abstract
We present an implementation of a blind source separation algorithm to remove foregrounds off millimeter surveys made by single-channel instruments. In order to make possible such a decomposition over single-wavelength data, we generate levels of artificial redundancy, then perform a blind decomposition, calibrate the resulting maps, and lastly measure physical information. We simulate the reduction pipeline using mock data: atmospheric fluctuations, extended astrophysical foregrounds, and point-like sources, but we apply the same methodology to the Aztronomical Thermal Emission Camera/ASTE survey of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-South (GOODS-S). In both applications, our technique robustly decomposes redundant maps into their underlying components, reducing flux bias, improving signal-to-noise ratio, and minimizing information loss. In particular, GOODS-S is decomposed into four independent physical components: one of them is the already-known map of point sources, two are atmospheric and systematic foregrounds, and the fourth component is an extended emission that can be interpreted as the confusion background of faint sources.
Volume
235
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044164433
Source
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
ISSN of the container
00670049
Sponsor(s)
This project was possible owing to partial support from CONACyT research grants: CB-2011/167291, CB-2015/ 256961, Fronteras de la Ciencia 2016/1848, and FONCICYT 2016/69. We thank Emmaly Aguilar and Ivnio Puerari for useful discussions and an anonymous referee for a critical review that has improved the paper.
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