We discuss a new procedure to search for point sources in Cosmic Microwave background maps; in particular, we aim at controlling the so-called False Discovery Rate, which is defined as the expected value of false discoveries among pixels which are labelled as contaminated by point sources. We exploit a procedure called STEM, which is based on the following four steps: 1) needlet filtering of the observed CMB maps, to improve the signal to noise ratio; 2) selection of candidate peaks, i.e., the local maxima of filtered maps; 3) computation of \emph{p-}values for local maxima; 4) implementation of the multiple testing procedure, by means of the so-called Benjamini-Hochberg method. Our procedures are also implemented on the latest release of Planck CMB maps.
@article{arxiv.1902.06636,
title = {Point Source Detection and False Discovery Rate Control on CMB Maps},
author = {Javier Carrón Duque and Alessandro Buzzelli and Yabebal Fantaye and Domenico Marinucci and Armin Schwartzman and Nicola Vittorio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06636},
year = {2021}
}