Data/Simulation Pipeline
1. Simulations
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?
2. Data Processing
Make Cleaned, Calibrated, Time-Ordered-Data (From both simulations and experiments)
* Common format
* Handling of Large Data sets
* Pixelization & Pointing
* Cleaning, Calibration, Instrumental Effects
* Data Quality Assurance
3. Data Analysis: Extraction/Compression
* "Intermediate Maps"
(a la COBE): contain Noise; use for following analysis
* Power Spectra
* Cosmological Parameters
* Non-Gaussian Statistics?
* "Final Maps"
e.g., Wiener Filtering: extract foregrounds/cosmological signal separately.
4. Data Visualization
IDL
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