ACT (MBAC) Data Products on LAMBDA

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Data Release Products for South 280 GHz
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Maps
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These files contain the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) temperature south maps at 280 GHz. More...
10 files, < 203.6 MB
Weights
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These files contain the hit-count maps for each Atacama Cosmology Telescope 280 GHz observations. More...
10 files, < 203.6 MB
Beams
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These files contain the beam transforms and radial profiles of the ACT beam, which are appropriate for point source use with the ACT 150, 220, and 280 GHz maps of 2008-2010 data. More...
16 files, < 1.0 MB
Data Release Products for Equatorial 280 GHz
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Maps
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These files contain the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) temperature maps at 277 GHz. More...
1 file 188 MB
Weights
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These files contain combined hit-count maps for each pixel of Atacama Cosmology Telescope 277 GHz observations. More...
1 file 188 MB
Beams
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These files represent the beam transforms and radial profiles of the ACT beam, appropriate for use with the ACT 277 GHz data. More...
2 files < 993 KB
Millimeter-wave Source and SZ Cluster Catalogs
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Extragalactic Southern Sources Catalog
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Catalog of extragalactic sources detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope at 150, 220 and 280 GHz for the 2008-2010 seasons along the southern surveys. More...
1 File 435 KB
Equatorial Extragalactic Source Catalog
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This is a catalog of extragalactic sources detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope at 148, 218, and 277 GHz. More...
1 File 516 KB
Equatorial Galactic Source Catalog
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This is a catalog of Galactic sources detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope at 148, 218, and 277 GHz along the celestial equator. More...
1 File 86 KB
2008 SZ Clusters
Catalog of 23 galaxy clusters detected by the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect in 455 square degrees of sky surveyed by ACT during 2008 at 148 GHz. The catalog gives the cluster names, positions, redshifts, signal-to-noise, and measured SZ signal. SZ and optical images of each cluster are also included.
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148/218 GHz Point Source Catalog from 2008
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This is a catalog of 191 extragalactic sources detected by ACT at 148 and/or 218 GHz in the 2008 Southern survey. More...
1 file, 30 KB
148 GHz Point Source Catalog from 2008
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This is a catalog of point sources detected in a 148 GHz data collected by ACT . More...
1 files, 20 kB
Data Release Products for the 2008-2010 Season at 148 GHz and 218 GHz
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Masks
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The point source mask is a map, in FITS format, with the same footprint and World Coordinate System as the associated 148 GHz and 220 GHz data. More...
3 files, < 187.1 MB
Weights AR1, AR2
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These files contain combined hit-count maps for each pixel of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) maps of the southern and equatorial fields, observed during the 2008-2010 seasons, in the 148 GHz and 217 GHz bands, and produced for the ACT data release in February 2014. More...
50 files, < 187.1 MB
Spectra
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The ACT temperature power spectra are combined to estimated the CMB bandpowers, marginalized over foregrounds and SZ. Spectra are given for each region (ACT-E and ACT-S). The coadded spectra are also given. More...
36 files, < 926 Bytes
Beams
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These files represent the beam transforms and radial profiles of the ACT beam, appropriate for use with the ACT 148 GHz and 220 GHz maps of 2008-2010 data. More...
18 files, < 1.3 MB
Maps AR1, AR2
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These files contain the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) temperature maps of the southern and equatorial fields, observed during the 2008-2010 seasons, in the 148 GHz and 217 GHz bands, and produced for the ACT data release in February 2014. More...
100 files, < 187.1 MB
Derived CMB Products from full 3-year data
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Chains
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ΛCDM cosmological parameter chains obtained from the combination of the full WMAP mission, ACT and SPT 2013 temperature data More...
1 file, 2.83 GB
Lensing Likelihood
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A single tarball is supplied, containing the lensing likelihood and data for ACT. It is a simple chisq routine that takes in a theoretical deflection spectrum, and compares it to the ACT data file in the /data directory. More...
1 file, 107 KB
Multi-Frequency Likelihood
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Oct-2013 Updated likelihood v2 released with updated ACT beams, and includes an improved binning of the spectra. As reported in the ACT papers, the effect on cosmological parameters is small, less than 0.1 sigma for the majority, up to a maximum of 0.2 sigma. This version also includes the newer Story et al 2012 SPT data at large scales as the default, instead of the Keisler et al 2012 SPT data. More...
1 file, 76.9 MB
CMB Likelihood
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Oct-2013 Updated likelihood v2p2 released with updated ACT beams, including the improved binning of the spectra used in v2p1. As reported in the ACT papers, the effect of this change on cosmological parameters is small, at the 0.1 sigma level. More...
1 file, 5.4 MB
Total Spectra
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The ACT temperature power spectra are computed at 148 GHz and 218 GHz. Three spectra are given for each region (ACT-E and ACT-S), for 148x148, 148x218, and 218x218. The coadded spectra are also given. More...
9 files, <= 705 bytes each
CMB Spectra
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The ACT temperature power spectra are combined to estimated the CMB bandpowers, marginalized over foregrounds and SZ. Spectra are given for each region (ACT-E and ACT-S). More...
2 files, < 3 KB each
Data Release Products for South 2008 Data at 148 GHz
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Temperature Maps
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These files contain the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) temperature maps of the southern stripe field, observed during the 2008 season, in the 148 GHz band, and produced for the first ACT data release in March 2012. More...
10 files, 176.9 MB each
Hit-Count Maps
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These files contain combined hit-count maps for each pixel of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) maps of the southern stripe field, observed during the 2008 season, in the 148 GHz band, and produced for the first ACT data release in March 2012. More...
5 files, 176.9 MB each
Beam Functions
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These two files represent the radial beam profile and the Fourier space window function of the ACT beam, appropriate for use with the ACT 148 GHz maps of 2008 data released with Dunner et al. More...
2 files, <= 762 KB each
Masks
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The point source mask is a map, in FITS format, with the same footprint and World Coordinate System as the associated 148 GHz data. More...
1 file, 176.9 MB
Derived CMB Products from 2008 Data
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Likelihood Software
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This is the software used by the ACT collaboration to compute the likelihood of cosmological models, using the small-scale microwave power spectrum measured by ACT from the 2008 Southern sky survey. It is based on the WMAP likelihood software. More...
1 file, 4.6 MB
Chains
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These are MCMC chains run using the ACT likelihood software based on the small-scale microwave power spectrum measured from the 2008 Southern sky survey. More...
10 files, < 4.5 MB
Primordial Spectrum
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This is the software and chains used by the ACT collaboration in Hlozek et al 2011 [1105.4887]. It includes the modification to CAMB required to use a binned primordial power spectrum instead of a power law, and modifications to CosmoMC to sample these additional parameters. More...
2 files, < 336 KB
Beams
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The beam window functions for the ACT temperature power spectra are computed at 148 GHz and 218 GHz. They are obtained by transforming the beam profiles obtained from Saturn observations. More...
2 files, 451 kB each
Spectra
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The ACT temperature power spectra are computed at 148 GHz and 218 GHz. Three spectra are given, for 148x148, 148x218, and 218x218. More...
3 files, 4 kB each
Source Templates
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The angular power spectra shape due to clustered IR point sources as predicted by two different models (named Src-1, Src-2) are supplied for the 148 GHZ ACT frequency. More...
2 files, 221 kB each
SZ Templates
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The angular power spectra due to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect as predicted by four different models (named TBO-1, TBO-2, Battaglia, Shaw) are supplied for the 148 GHZ ACT frequency. More...
6 files, < 557 kB each
Derived Lensing Products
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Likelihood Software
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This is the ACT lensing likelihood routine from Das et al 2011 (astro-ph/1103.2124), written in Fortran 90. More...
1 file, 111 KB
Chains
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This tarball includes 6 chains run for the lcdm+curvature model, with results reported in Sherwin et al 2011 (astro-ph/1103.0419), using WM AP 7-year data plus ACT lensing likelihood described in Das et al 2011 (astro-ph/1103.2124). More...
1 file, 3.3 MB

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