High Resolution Microwave Full Sky Simulations
Data Descriptions
Map Types
| Map Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Unlensed CMB | Unlensed primary microwave background. |
| Lensed CMB | Lensed primary microwave background (see below). |
| Thermal SZ | Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from galaxy clusters, groups, and the intergalactic medium. |
| Kinetic SZ | Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from galaxy clusters, groups, and the intergalactic medium. |
| Full SZ | Thermal plus kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, plus relativistic corrections, from galaxy clusters, groups, and the intergalactic medium. |
| Radio Galaxies | Radio galaxies correlated with the galaxy clusters and groups. |
| Infrared Galaxies | Infrared galaxies correlated with the galaxy clusters and groups. |
| Galactic Dust | Emission from Galactic dust. |
| Combined Skymap | Sum of all microwave components (lensed CMB, thermal and kinetic SZ plus relativistic corrections, infrared and radio galaxies, and Galactic dust). |
Lensing Data Availability
The original Nside=4096 HEALPix unlensed primary CMB map that was used for the lensing process, as well as the original Nside=4096 lensed primary CMB map (before the resolution was changed to Nside=8192 with the alter_alm subroutine in the HEALPix distribution) can be made available upon request.
Sky Map Units
The maps are in units units of Jy/steradian. Conversions factors are provided below to convert from Jy/steradian to ΔT/Tcmb; divide a map by the relevant factor to convert it. These factors are frequency dependent.
| Frequency [GHz] |
Conversion Factor [Jy/steradian] |
|---|---|
| 30 | 7.364967 X 10+07 |
| 90 | 5.526540 X 10+08 |
| 148 | 1.072480 X 10+09 |
| 219 | 1.318837 X 10+09 |
| 277 | 1.182877 X 10+09 |
| 350 | 8.247628 X 10+08 |
