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We present a statistical method based on a maximum likelihood approach to constrain the number counts of extragalactic sources below the nominal flux-density limit of continuum imaging surveys. We extract flux densities from a radio map…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ketron Mitchell-Wynne , Mario G. Santos , Jose Afonso , Matt J. Jarvis

In this draft we comment on the results concerning the performances of matched filters, scale adaptive filters and Mexican hat wavelet that recently appeared in literature in the context of point source detection in Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Vio , Paola Andreani , Willelm Wamsteker

The radio spectral index is a powerful probe for classifying cosmic radio sources and understanding the origin of the radio emission. Combining data at 147 MHz and 1.4 GHz from the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , D. A. Frail

We present polarization measurements of extragalactic radio sources observed during the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization survey of the Q/U Imaging Experiment (QUIET), operating at 43 GHz (Q-band) and 95 GHz (W-band). We examine…

We present a specific periodicity of the Galaxy images in the multipole domain which can be used for separation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from the Galaxy and foreground component. This method takes into consideration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel D. Naselsky , Igor D. Novikov

Point sources (PS) are one of the main contaminants to the recovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal at small scales, and their detection is important for the next generation of CMB experiments. We develop a method (PoSeIDoN)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 L. Bonavera , S. L. Suarez Gomez , J. González-Nuevo , M. M. Cueli , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sanchez , R. Muñiz , F. J. de Cos

An estimation of the number and amplitude (in flux) of the extragalactic point sources that will be observed by the Planck Mission is presented in this paper. The study is based on the Mexican Hat wavelet formalism introduced by Cayon et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Vielva , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , L. Cayon , J. M. Diego , J. L. Sanz , L. Toffolatti

The first X-ray source catalog of Insight-HXMT Galactic Plane (|b|<10deg) Scanning Survey (GPSS) is presented based on the data accumulated from June 2017 to August 2021. The 4 yr limit sensitivities at main energy bands can reach…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Chen Wang , Jin-Yuan Liao , Ju Guan , Yuan Liu , Cheng-Kui Li , Na Sai , Qi Luo , Jing Jin , Yi Nang , Shuang-Nan Zhang

We aim to present a tutorial on the detection, parameter estimation and statistical analysis of compact sources (far galaxies, galaxy clusters and Galactic dense emission regions) in cosmic microwave background observations. The topic is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-05 D. Herranz , P. Vielva

We employ an efficient method for identifying gamma-ray sources across the entire sky, leveraging advanced algorithms from Fermi p y, and cleverly utilizing the Galactic diffuse background emission model to partition the entire sky into 72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Y. C. Xiang , P. Feng , X. F. Lan

We present new millimetre 43 GHz observations of a sample of radio-bright Planetary Nebulae. Such observations were carried out to have a good determination of the high-frequency radio spectra of the sample in order to evaluate, together…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Umana , P. Leto , C. Trigilio , C. S. Buemi , P. Manzitto , S. Toscano , S. Dolei , L. Cerrigone

We detect a dip of 20-45% in the surface brightness and number counts of NVSS sources smoothed to a few degrees at the location of the WMAP cold spot. The dip has structure on scales of approximately 1-10 degrees. Together with independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Lawrence Rudnick , Shea Brown , Liliya R. Williams

We present reduced images and catalogues of photometric and emission line data ($\sim$230,000 and $\sim$8,000 sources, respectively) for the WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey. These data are made publicly available on the…

Extended radio sources present unique challenges for automated detection and classification in wide-field radio surveys. With current surveys such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), robust and scalable methods are essential to…

State-of-the-art techniques to identify H\alpha emission line sources in narrow-band photometric surveys consist of searching for H\alpha excess with reference to nearby objects in the sky (position-based selection). However, while this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 M. Fratta , S. Scaringi , M. Monguió , A. F. Pala , J. E. Drew , C. Knigge , K. A. Iłkiewicz , P. Gandhi

Accurate measurements of angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation has lead to marked improvement in the estimates of different cosmological parameters. This has required removal of foreground contamination as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajib Saha , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep

I present a catalogue of positions and correlated flux densities of 109 compact extragalactic radio sources in the Galactic plane determined from analysis of a 48 hour VLBI experiment at 22 GHz with the European VLBI Network. The median…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-26 Leonid Petrov

We present a careful frequentist analysis of one- and two-point statistics of the hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data obtained by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Our main result is the detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David L. Larson , Benjamin D. Wandelt

One of the main obstacles for extracting the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal from observations in the mm/sub-mm range is the foreground contamination by emission from Galactic component: mainly synchrotron, free-free, and thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-07 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

We present catalogues of discrete, compact radio sources in and around the discs of 35 edge-on galaxies in the Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies -- an EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES). The sources were extracted using the PyBDSF program at both 1.6…