Multifrequency filter search for high redshift sources and lensing
  systems in Herschel-ATLAS
  We present a new catalog of high-redshift candidate \textit{Herschel}
sources. Our sample is obtained after applying a multifrequency filtering
method ("matched multifilter"), which is designed to improve the
signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of faint extragalactic point sources. The method is
tested against already-detected sources from the \textit{Herschel}
Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and used to search for new
high-redshift candidates. The multifilter technique also produces an estimation
of the photometric redshift of the sources. When compared with a sample of
sources with known spectroscopic redshift, the photometric redshift returned
from the multifilter is unbiased in the redshift range 0.8 < z < 4.3. Using
simulated data we reproduced the same unbiased result in roughly the same
redshift range and determined the error (and bias above $z\approx4$) in the
photometric redshifts. Based on the multifilter technique, and a selection
based on color, flux, and agreement of fit between the observed photometry and
assumed SED, we find 370 robust candidates to be relatively bright
high-redshift sources. A second sample with 237 objects focuses on the faint
end at high-redshift. These 237 sources were previously near the H-ATLAS
detection limit but are now confirmed with our technique as high significance
detections. Finally, we look for possible lensed Herschel sources by
cross-correlating the first sample of 370 objects with two different catalogs
of known low-redshift objects, the redMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalog and a
catalog of galaxies with spectroscopic redshift from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey Data Release 14. Our search renders a number of candidates to be lensed
systems from the SDSS cross-correlation but none from the redMaPPeR confirming
the more likely galactic nature of the lenses.
