Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-12
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 975
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 9 figures. To appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05254.x
We present a harmonic model for the data analysis of an all-sky cosmic microwave background survey, such as Planck, where the survey is obtained through ring-scans of the sky. In this model, resampling and pixelisation of the data are avoided. The spherical transforms of the sky at each frequency, in total intensity and polarization, as well as the bright-point-source catalogue, are derived directly from the data reduced onto the rings. Formal errors and the most significant correlation coefficients for the spherical transforms of the frequency maps are preserved. A clean and transparent path from the original samplings in the time domain to the final scientific products is thus obtained. The data analysis is largely based on Fourier analysis of rings; the positional stability of the instrument's spin axis during these scans is a requirement for the data model and is investigated here for the Planck satellite. Brighter point sources are recognised and extracted as part of the ring reductions and, on the basis of accumulated data, used to build a catalogue. The analysis of the rings is performed iteratively, involving a range of geometric and detector response calibrations. The reconstructed spherical transforms of the sky form the input to the subsequent analysis stages. Although the methods in this paper were developed with the data processing for Planck in mind, many aspects should have wider application, such as in the construction of real-space pixelised maps. (Abridged)
Ashdown Mark A. J.
Challinor Anthony D.
Efstathiou George P.
Hobson Michael P.
Lasenby Anthony N.
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