WMAP DR3 Foreground Reduced Five Year Sky Maps Per Differencing Assembly

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The WMAP sky maps are generated using the HEALPix sky pixelization scheme. The first file listed for each map contains the data in its native HEALPix format. For the convenience of users who do not require the capabilities that HEALPix offers, we also provide the maps in two projected image formats: Mollweide and Zenith Equal Area (ZEA). These files contain the string "_mollweide" and "_zea" respectively, and may be displayed with standard astronomical display software such as DS9 and SAOImage. Note that the image pixels typically over-sample the HEALPix pixels, thus some amount of data replication will be present in the image data. As a result, care must be taken when using the image data in a regime where the noise properties are important since the statistical weight per pixel will also be replicated.

WMAP DR3 Foreground Reduced Five Year IQU Sky Maps Per Differencing Assembly
Description
Dataset Id
File Info
File Name
Delivery Date
All the files in this table
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_fiveyear_v3.tar.gz
354.08 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_fiveyear_v3.tar.gz
2008-03-05
Q1 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q1_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q1_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q1_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q1_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
Q2 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q2_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q2_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q2_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_Q2_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
V1 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V1_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V1_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V1_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V1_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
V2 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V2_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V2_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V2_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_V2_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
W1 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W1_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W1_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W1_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W1_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
W2 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W2_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W2_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W2_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W2_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
W3 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W3_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W3_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W3_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W3_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05
W4 map for all five years
ADS/Sa.WMAP#forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W4_v3.fits
48.01 MB wmap_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W4_v3.fits
wmap_mollweide_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W4_v3.fits
wmap_zea_forered_iqumap_r9_5yr_W4_v3.fits
Fits Header
2008-03-05

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