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Introduction
Facility Planning
Simulations & Prototyping
Mission Operations: Mission Planning
Data Receipt
Instrument Performance Monitoring
Data Quality Checking
Merge data streams - e.g. raw data, time stamp, pointing, instrument state, orbital location, etc.
Calibrated Time Ordered Data
-calibration
-tag/remove of non-science data, bad & corrupt data - for HFI this includes cosmic ray removal
-determine, characterized, and remove instrument signatures
-filtering/baseline removal
Generate Ancillary Data Sets
-calibration history and parameters files - absolute and relative
-beam parameters - G(\theta), W(\theta)
-pointing offsets
-noise properties of data - e.g. power spectrum, correlation function
-delays, time constants, frequency response of detectors
Map Generation
-determine number of maps and coordinate systems to use & memory, data storage sizes and number of megaflops
-pixelization software - valid for various schemes
-minimum size packing of data stream & noise characterization for map-making input
-staging data into map-making system
-generate partial and full maps and error covariance matrix
-verification and validation of map making products
-separation of signals, e.g. CMB, foregrounds, etc.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Power Spectrum
Test Cosmological Models and assumptions, e.g. Gaussian versus non-Gaussian, goodness of fit,...
Cosmological Parameter Estimation
CMB Polarization Analysis
Additional Scientific Goals & Processing
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