PIRSA:09050011

Optimal Filtering: A Real-World Example

Crawford, T. (2009). Optimal Filtering: A Real-World Example. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09050011

Crawford, Tom. Optimal Filtering: A Real-World Example. Perimeter Institute, May. 01, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09050011 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09050011,
            doi = {10.48660/09050011},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09050011},
            author = {Crawford, Tom},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Optimal Filtering: A Real-World Example},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:09050011 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Tom Crawford University of Chicago

DOI 10.48660/09050011
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Abstract

Extracting compact sources from maps contaminated with noise and unwanted astrophysical signals is a well-studied problem. In anticipation of the now-current generation of large-scale SZ surveys, many authors arrived at the conclusion that a simple multi-scale spatial/spectral filter would be the optimal way to find galaxy clusters in data from these surveys. I will briefly present the basics of the spatial/spectral optimal filter and then show in some detail how this has been implemented in one real-world case, namely in data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey.