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    • Keywords

       

      Methods: statistical, data analysis; techniques: interferometric; cosmology: diffuse radiation.

    • Abstract

       

      The upcoming square kilometer array (SKA) is expected to produce humongous amount of data for undertaking Hi science. We have developed an MPI-based Python pipeline to deal with the large data efficiently with the present computational resources. Our pipeline divides such large Hi 21-cm spectral cubes into several small cubelets, and then processes them in parallel using publicly available Hi source finder SoFiA- 2. The pipeline also takes care of sources at the boundaries of the cubelets and also filters out false and redundant detections. By comapring with the true source catalog, we find that the detection efficiency depends on the SoFiA- 2 parameters, such as the smoothing kernel size, linking length and threshold values. We find the optimal kernel size for all flux bins to be between 3–5 and 7–15 pixels, respectively, in the spatial and frequency directions. Comparing the recovered source parameters with the original values, we find that the output of SoFiA- 2 is highly dependent on kernel sizes and a single choice of kernel is not sufficient for all types of Hi galaxies. We also propose the use of alternative methods to SoFiA- 2, which can be used in our pipeline to find sources more robustly.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      ABINASH KUMAR SHAW1 2 MANOJ JAGANNATH3 AISHRILA MAZUMDER4 ARNAB CHAKRABORTY5 NARENDRA NATH PATRA4 6 RAJESH MONDAL7 8 SAMIR CHOUDHURI9 10

      1. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India.
      2. Astrophysics Research Centre, Open University of Israel, Ra’anana 4353701, Israel.
      3. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, PES University, Bangalore 560085, India.
      4. Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics & Space Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore 453552, India.
      5. Department of Physics and McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal H3A 2T8, QC, Canada.
      6. Astronomy and Astrophysics Division, Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru 560080, India.
      7. Department of Astronomy and Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden.
      8. Department of Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
      9. School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
      10. Department of Physics, Indain Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.

    • Dates

       
      Published
      15 December 2022
      Manuscript received
      28 February 2022
      Accepted
      13 June 2022
      Final version published online
      15 December 2022

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