Ade, PAR;
Aghanim, N;
Arnaud, M;
Ashdown, M;
Aumont, J;
Baccigalupi, C;
Banday, AJ;
... Zonca, A; + view all
(2016)
Planck 2015 results XII. Full focal plane simulations.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
, 594
, Article A12. 10.1051/0004-6361/201527103.
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Abstract
We present the 8th full focal plane simulation set (FFP8), deployed in support of the Planck 2015 results. FFP8 consists of 10 fiducial mission realizations reduced to 18 144 maps, together with the most massive suite of Monte Carlo realizations of instrument noise and CMB ever generated, comprising 104 mission realizations reduced to about 106 maps. The resulting maps incorporate the dominant instrumental, scanning, and data analysis effects, and the remaining subdominant effects will be included in future updates. Generated at a cost of some 25 million CPU-hours spread across multiple high-performance-computing (HPC) platforms, FFP8 is used to validate and verify analysis algorithms and their implementations, and to remove biases from and quantify uncertainties in the results of analyses of the real data.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Planck 2015 results XII. Full focal plane simulations |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201527103 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527103 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Astronomy & Astrophysics, methods: data analysis, methods: numerical, cosmic background radiation, ANOMALOUS MICROWAVE EMISSION, PRIMORDIAL NON-GAUSSIANITY, SUNYAEV-ZELDOVICH SOURCES, IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE, SPINNING DUST GRAINS, CMB POWER SPECTRA, COMPONENT SEPARATION, ANISOTROPY-PROBE, STATISTICAL PROPERTIES, GALAXY CLUSTERS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048436 |
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