Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg^2 SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data
Abstract
We present three maps of the millimeter-wave sky created by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Planck satellite. We use data from the SPT-SZ survey, a survey of 2540 deg^2 of the the sky with arcminute resolution in three bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, and the full-mission Planck temperature data in the 100, 143, and 217 GHz bands. A linear combination of the SPT-SZ and Planck data is computed in spherical harmonic space, with weights derived from the noise of both instruments. This weighting scheme results in Planck data providing most of the large-angular-scale information in the combined maps, with the smaller-scale information coming from SPT-SZ data. A number of tests have been done on the maps. We find their angular power spectra to agree very well with theoretically predicted spectra and previously published results.
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© 2018 American Astronomical Society. Received 2018 April 4; revised 2018 October 1; accepted 2018 October 4; published 2018 November 12. The South Pole Telescope program is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant PLR-1248097. Partial support is also provided by the NSF Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-0114422 to the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF#947 to the University of Chicago. C.R. acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council's Future Fellowships scheme (FT150100074). Work at Argonne National Laboratory was supported under U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. This work has made use of computations performed on Guillimin, managed by Calcul Quebec and Compute Canada (funded by CFI, MESI, and FRQNT). The McGill authors acknowledge funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Canada Research Chairs program. Facilities: NSF/US Department of Energy 10 m South Pole Telescope (SPT) - , European Space Agency (ESA) Planck Space Observatory Mission - . HEALPix/healpy (Górski et al. 2005), PolSpice (Chon et al. 2004), SciPy.Attached Files
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- NSF
- PLR-1248097
- NSF
- PHY-0114422
- Kavli Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- 947
- Australian Research Council
- FT150100074
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC02-06CH11357
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
- Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Canada Research Chairs Program
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