Overcoming Confusion Noise with Hyperspectral Imaging from PRIMAger
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| author | Donnellan, James M. S. Oliver, Seb J. Bethermin, Matthieu Bing, Longji Bolatto, Alberto Bradford, Charles M. Burgarella, Denis Ciesla, Laure Glenn, Jason Pope, Alexandra Serjeant, Stephen Shirley, Raphael Smith, JD T. Sorrell, Chris |
| author_facet | Donnellan, James M. S. Oliver, Seb J. Bethermin, Matthieu Bing, Longji Bolatto, Alberto Bradford, Charles M. Burgarella, Denis Ciesla, Laure Glenn, Jason Pope, Alexandra Serjeant, Stephen Shirley, Raphael Smith, JD T. Sorrell, Chris |
| contents | The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) concept aims to perform mapping with spectral coverage and sensitivities inaccessible to previous FIR space telescopes. PRIMA's imaging instrument, PRIMAger, provides unique hyperspectral imaging simultaneously covering 25-235 $μ$m. We synthesise images representing a deep, 1500 hr deg$^{-2}$ PRIMAger survey, with realistic instrumental and confusion noise. We demonstrate that we can construct catalogues of galaxies with a high purity ($>95$ per cent) at a source density of 42k deg$^{-2}$ using PRIMAger data alone. Using the XID+ deblending tool we show that we measure fluxes with an accuracy better than 20 per cent to flux levels of 0.16, 0.80, 9.7 and 15 mJy at 47.4, 79.7, 172, 235 $μ$m respectively. These are a factor of $\sim$2 and $\sim$3 fainter than the classical confusion limits for 72-96 $μ$m and 126-235 $μ$m, respectively. At $1.5 \leq z \leq 2$, we detect and accurately measure fluxes in 8-10 of the 10 channels covering 47-235 $μ$m for sources with $2 \leq$ log(SFR) $\leq 2.5$, a 0.5 dex improvement on what might be expected from the classical confusion limit. Recognising that PRIMager will operate in a context where high quality data will be available at other wavelengths, we investigate the benefits of introducing additional prior information. We show that by introducing even weak prior flux information when employing a higher source density catalogue (more than one source per beam) we can obtain accurate fluxes an order of magnitude below the classical confusion limit for 96-235 $μ$m. |
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| spellingShingle | Overcoming Confusion Noise with Hyperspectral Imaging from PRIMAger Donnellan, James M. S. Oliver, Seb J. Bethermin, Matthieu Bing, Longji Bolatto, Alberto Bradford, Charles M. Burgarella, Denis Ciesla, Laure Glenn, Jason Pope, Alexandra Serjeant, Stephen Shirley, Raphael Smith, JD T. Sorrell, Chris Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) concept aims to perform mapping with spectral coverage and sensitivities inaccessible to previous FIR space telescopes. PRIMA's imaging instrument, PRIMAger, provides unique hyperspectral imaging simultaneously covering 25-235 $μ$m. We synthesise images representing a deep, 1500 hr deg$^{-2}$ PRIMAger survey, with realistic instrumental and confusion noise. We demonstrate that we can construct catalogues of galaxies with a high purity ($>95$ per cent) at a source density of 42k deg$^{-2}$ using PRIMAger data alone. Using the XID+ deblending tool we show that we measure fluxes with an accuracy better than 20 per cent to flux levels of 0.16, 0.80, 9.7 and 15 mJy at 47.4, 79.7, 172, 235 $μ$m respectively. These are a factor of $\sim$2 and $\sim$3 fainter than the classical confusion limits for 72-96 $μ$m and 126-235 $μ$m, respectively. At $1.5 \leq z \leq 2$, we detect and accurately measure fluxes in 8-10 of the 10 channels covering 47-235 $μ$m for sources with $2 \leq$ log(SFR) $\leq 2.5$, a 0.5 dex improvement on what might be expected from the classical confusion limit. Recognising that PRIMager will operate in a context where high quality data will be available at other wavelengths, we investigate the benefits of introducing additional prior information. We show that by introducing even weak prior flux information when employing a higher source density catalogue (more than one source per beam) we can obtain accurate fluxes an order of magnitude below the classical confusion limit for 96-235 $μ$m. |
| title | Overcoming Confusion Noise with Hyperspectral Imaging from PRIMAger |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06935 |