FITS Headers
lambda_fds_dust_94GHz.fits
Primary Header
SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard
BITPIX = 32 / number of bits per data pixel
NAXIS = 0 / number of data axes
EXTEND = T / FITS dataset may contain extensions
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A&A...376..359H
DATE = '2003-02-05T00:00:00' /file creation date (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss UT)
OBJECT = 'ALL-SKY ' / Portion of sky given
COMMENT This file contains an all-sky map of the predicted thermal emission
COMMENT from Galactic dust at 94 GHz, based on the 2-component model (model 8)
COMMENT of Finkbeiner, Davis and Schlegel (1999).
COMMENT Software and data files downloaded from their website were used to
COMMENT interpolate their highest resolution model onto pixel centers
COMMENT appropriate for a HEALPix Nside=512 projection in Galactic
COMMENT coordinates. This file is distributed and maintained by LAMBDA.
REFERENC= 'Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) '
REFERENC= ' http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '
REFERENC= 'Extrapolation of Galactic Dust Emission at 100 microns to Cosmic '
REFERENC= ' Microwave Background Radiation Frequencies using FIRAS', '
REFERENC= ' Finkbeiner, Davis & Schlegel 1999 ApJ 524, 867 '
REFERENC= 'Berkeley mirror site for FDS99 data: http://astron.berkeley.edu/dust'
REFERENC= 'Princeton mirror site for FDS99 data: '
REFERENC= ' http://astro/princeton.edu/~schlegel/dust'
REFERENC= 'HEALPix Home Page: http://www.eso.org/science/healpix/ '
RESOLUTN= 9 / Resolution index
SKYCOORD= 'Galactic' / Coordinate system
PIXTYPE = 'HEALPIX ' / Pixel algorithm
ORDERING= 'NESTED ' / Ordering scheme
NSIDE = 512 / Resolution parameter
NPIX = 3145728 / # of pixels
FIRSTPIX= 0 / First pixel (0 based)
LASTPIX = 3145727 / Last pixel (0 based)
END
Archive Map Table
XTENSION= 'BINTABLE' /binary table extension
BITPIX = 8 /8-bit bytes
NAXIS = 2 /2-dimensional binary table
NAXIS1 = 8 /width of table in bytes
NAXIS2 = 3145728 /number of rows in table
PCOUNT = 0 /size of special data area
GCOUNT = 1 /one data group (required keyword)
TFIELDS = 2 /number of fields in each row
COMMENT
COMMENT *** End of mandatory fields ***
COMMENT
COMMENT
COMMENT *** Column names ***
COMMENT
TTYPE1 = 'TEMPERATURE' /label for field 1
COMMENT
COMMENT *** Column formats ***
COMMENT
TFORM1 = 'E ' /data format of field: 4-byte REAL
TUNIT1 = 'mK, antenna' /physical unit of field
TTYPE2 = 'N_OBS ' /label for field 2
TFORM2 = 'E ' /data format of field: 4-byte REAL
TUNIT2 = 'counts ' /physical unit of field
EXTNAME = 'Archive Map Table' /name of this binary table extension
DATE = '2003-02-05T00:00:00' /Table creation date
PIXTYPE = 'HEALPIX ' /Pixel algorithm
ORDERING= 'NESTED ' /Ordering scheme
NSIDE = 512 /Resolution parameter
FIRSTPIX= 0 /First pixel (0 based)
LASTPIX = 3145727 /Last pixel (0 based)
COMMENT The TEMPERATURE field is antenna temperature.
COMMENT N_obs is set to 1 for all pixels. The N_obs field is filled
COMMENT only to provide a format consistent with that used by
COMMENT WMAP products.
END