학술논문

Blind Search for Variability in Planck Data
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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Abstract
The sky is full of variable and transient sources on all time scales, from milliseconds to decades. Planck's regular scanning strategy makes it an ideal instrument to search for variable sky signals in the millimetre and submillimetre regime, on time scales from hours to several years. A precondition is that instrumental noise and systematic effects, caused in particular by non-symmetric beam shapes, are properly removed. We present a method to perform a full sky blind search for variable and transient objects at all Planck frequencies.
Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, presented at the XXIXth IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, August 2015