Extragalactic source counts and contributions to the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background: predictions for the Planck Surveyor mission |
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| Authors: | Toffolatti Argüeso Gómez De Zotti Mazzei Franceschini Danese & Burigana |
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| Institution: | Osservatorio Astronomico, Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy,;Departamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo, c.le Calvo Sotelo s/n, E-33007 Oviedo, Spain,;Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Oviedo, c.le Calvo Sotelo s/n, E-33007 Oviedo, Spain,;Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universitàdi Padova, Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy,;SISSA —International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 2–4, I-34013 Trieste, Italy,;Istituto TESRE, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy |
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| Abstract: | We present predictions for the counts of extragalactic sources, the contributions to fluctuations and their angular power spectrum in each channel foreseen for the Planck Surveyor (formerly COBRAS/SAMBA ) mission. The contribution to fluctuations owing to clustering of both radio and far-IR sources is found to be generally small in comparison with the Poisson term; however the relative importance of the clustering contribution increases and may eventually become dominant if sources are identified and subtracted down to faint flux limits. The central Planck frequency bands are expected to be 'clean': at high galactic latitude (| b | > 20°), where the reduced galactic noise does not prevent the detection of the extragalactic signal, only a tiny fraction of pixels is found to be contaminated by discrete extragalactic sources. Moreover, the 'flat' angular power spectrum of fluctuations resulting from extragalactic sources substantially differs from that of primordial fluctuations; therefore, the removal of contaminating signals is eased even at frequencies where point sources give a sizeable contribution to the foreground noise. |
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| Keywords: | galaxies: evolution cosmic microwave background infrared: general radio lines: general |
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