Cosmic Microwave Background Software Tools

For the NASA/Advanced Information Science Research Project

Data/Simulation Pipeline

  1. Simulations
  2. Data Format: COBE Sky Cube at resolution 11 (6,291,456 pixels at 5.25 arcmin!
    1. Code, Foregrounds -> Sky Representations
    2. Experimental Simulation (instrument, scan strategy) -> data
      • COBE, MAP, Planck
      • MAXIMA, BOOMERANG (NA/LDB)
      • Interferometers?

  3. Data Processing
  4. Make Cleaned, Calibrated, Time-Ordered-Data (From both simulations and experiments)

  5. Data Analysis: Extraction/Compression
  6. Data Visualization
  7. IDL

Other information


Center for Particle Astrophysics:
Contact hanany@physics.berkeley.edu or jaffe@physics.berkeley.edu.
Last Updated: 18 March, 1997