4 papers
Planck 2013 results. VII. HFI time response and beams
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +220
This paper characterizes the effective beams,the effective beam window functions and the associated errors for the Planck HFI detectors. The effective beam is the angular response…
Planck 2013 results. VI. High Frequency Instrument data processing
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +235
We describe the processing of the 531 billion raw data samples from the High Frequency Instrument (hereafter HFI), which we performed to produce six temperature maps from the first…
MasQU: Finite Differences on Masked Irregular Stokes Q,U Grids
Jude Bowyer, Andrew H. Jaffe, Dmitri I. Novikov
The detection of B-mode polarization in the CMB is one of the most important outstanding tests of inflationary cosmology. One of the necessary steps for extracting polarization inf…
Improved Method for Detecting Local Discontinuities in CMB data by Finite Differencing
Jude Bowyer, Andrew H. Jaffe
An unexpected distribution of temperatures in the CMB could be a sign of new physics. In particular, the existence of cosmic defects could be indicated by temperature discontinuiti…