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Revision as of 10:36, 5 February 2015
Contents
- 1 Product description
- 2 Production process
- 3 Inputs
- 4 Related products
- 5 Retrieval of effective beam information from the PLA interface
- 6 File Names
- 7 File format
- 8 References
Product description[edit]
The effective beam is the average of all scanning beams pointing at a certain direction within a given pixel of the sky map for a given scan strategy. It takes into account the coupling between azimuthal asymmetry of the beam and the uneven distribution of scanning angles across the sky. It captures the complete information about the difference between the true and observed image of the sky. The effective beams are, by definition, the objects whose convolution with the true CMB sky produce the observed sky map.
Details of the beam processing are given in the respective pages for HFI and LFI.
The full algebra involving the effective beams for temperature and polarisation was presented in [1], and a discussion of its application to Planck data is given in the appropriate LFI Planck-2013-IV[2], Planck-2015-A05[3] and HFI Planck-2013-VII[4] papers. Relevant details of the processing steps are given in the Effective Beams section of this document.
Comparison of the images of compact sources observed by Planck with FEBeCoP products[edit]
We show here a comparison of the FEBeCoP-derived effective beams, and associated point spread functions, PSF (the transpose of the beam matrix), to the actual images of a few compact sources observed by Planck, for all LFI and HFI frequency channels, as an example. We show below a few panels of source images organized as follows:
- Row #1- DX9 images of four ERCSC objects with their galactic (l,b) coordinates shown under the color bar
- Row #2- linear scale FEBeCoP PSFs computed using input scanning beams, Grasp Beams, GB, for LFI and B-Spline beams,BS, Mars12 apodized for the CMB channels and the BS Mars12 for the sub-mm channels, for HFI (see section Inputs below).
- Row #3- log scale of #2; PSF iso-contours shown in solid line, elliptical Gaussian fit iso-contours shown in broken line
Histograms of the effective beam parameters[edit]
Here we present histograms of the three fit parameters - beam FWHM, ellipticity, and orientation with respect to the local meridian and of the beam solid angle. The sky is sampled (pretty sparsely) at 3072 directions which were chosen as HEALpix nside=16 pixel centers for HFI and at 768 directions which were chosen as HEALpix nside=8 pixel centers for LFI. These uniformly sample the sky.
Where beam solid angle is estimated according to the definition:
(effbeam)/max(effbeam) i.e.,Sky variation of effective beams solid angle and ellipticity of the best-fit Gaussian[edit]
- The discontinuities at the Healpix domain edges in the maps are a visual artifact due to the interplay of the discretized effective beam and the Healpix pixel grid.
Statistics of the effective beams computed using FEBeCoP[edit]
We tabulate the simple statistics of FWHM, ellipticity (e), orientation ( ) and beam solid angle, ( ), for a sample of 3072 and 768 directions on the sky for HFI and LFI data respectively. Statistics shown in the Table are derived from the histograms shown above.
- The derived beam parameters are representative of the DPC NSIDE 1024 and 2048 healpix maps (they include the pixel window function).
- The reported FWHM_eff are derived from the beam solid angles, under a Gaussian approximation. These are best used for flux determination while the the Gaussian fits to the effective beam maps are more suited for source identification.
frequency | mean(fwhm) [arcmin] | sd(fwhm) [arcmin] | mean(e) | sd(e) | mean( | ) [degree]sd( | ) [degree]mean( | ) [arcmin ]sd( | ) [arcmin ]FWHM_eff [arcmin] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
030 | 32.239 | 0.013 | 1.320 | 0.031 | -0.304 | 55.349 | 1189.513 | 0.842 | 32.34 |
044 | 27.005 | 0.552 | 1.034 | 0.033 | 0.059 | 53.767 | 832.946 | 31.774 | 27.12 |
070 | 13.252 | 0.033 | 1.223 | 0.026 | 0.587 | 55.066 | 200.742 | 1.027 | 13.31 |
100 | 9.651 | 0.014 | 1.186 | 0.023 | -0.024 | 55.400 | 105.778 | 0.311 | 9.66 |
143 | 7.248 | 0.015 | 1.036 | 0.009 | 0.383 | 54.130 | 59.954 | 0.246 | 7.27 |
217 | 4.990 | 0.025 | 1.177 | 0.030 | 0.836 | 54.999 | 28.447 | 0.271 | 5.01 |
353 | 4.818 | 0.024 | 1.147 | 0.028 | 0.655 | 54.745 | 26.714 | 0.250 | 4.86 |
545 | 4.682 | 0.044 | 1.161 | 0.036 | 0.544 | 54.876 | 26.535 | 0.339 | 4.84 |
857 | 4.325 | 0.055 | 1.393 | 0.076 | 0.876 | 54.779 | 24.244 | 0.193 | 4.63 |
Beam solid angles for the PCCS[edit]
- - is the mean beam solid angle of the effective beam, where beam solid angle is estimated according to the definition: (effbeam)/max(effbeam), i.e. as an integral over the full extent of the effective beam, i.e. .
- from
- These were estimated according to the procedure followed in the aperture photometry code for the PCCS: if the pixel centre does not lie within the given radius it is not included (so inclusive=0 in query disc).
is the beam solid angle estimated up to a radius equal to one and up to a radius equal to twice the .
we estimate the , under a Gaussian approximation - these are tabulated above
Band | [arcmin ] | spatial variation [arcmin | ][arcmin ] | spatial variation-1 [arcmin | ][arcmin ] | spatial variation-2 [arcmin | ]
30 | 1189.513 | 0.842 | 1116.494 | 2.274 | 1188.945 | 0.847 |
44 | 832.946 | 31.774 | 758.684 | 29.701 | 832.168 | 31.811 |
70 | 200.742 | 1.027 | 186.260 | 2.300 | 200.591 | 1.027 |
100 | 105.778 | 0.311 | 100.830 | 0.410 | 105.777 | 0.311 |
143 | 59.954 | 0.246 | 56.811 | 0.419 | 59.952 | 0.246 |
217 | 28.447 | 0.271 | 26.442 | 0.537 | 28.426 | 0.271 |
353 | 26.714 | 0.250 | 24.827 | 0.435 | 26.653 | 0.250 |
545 | 26.535 | 0.339 | 24.287 | 0.455 | 26.302 | 0.337 |
857 | 24.244 | 0.193 | 22.646 | 0.263 | 23.985 | 0.191 |
Production process[edit]
FEBeCoP, or Fast Effective Beam Convolution in Pixel space[1], is an approach to representing and computing effective beams (including both intrinsic beam shapes and the effects of scanning) that comprises the following steps:
- identify the individual detectors' instantaneous optical response function (presently we use elliptical Gaussian fits of Planck beams from observations of planets; eventually, an arbitrary mathematical representation of the beam can be used on input)
- follow exactly the Planck scanning, and project the intrinsic beam on the sky at each actual sampling position
- project instantaneous beams onto the pixelized map over a small region (typically <2.5 FWHM diameter)
- add up all beams that cross the same pixel and its vicinity over the observing period of interest
- create a data object of all beams pointed at all N'_pix_' directions of pixels in the map at a resolution at which this precomputation was executed (dimension N'_pix_' x a few hundred)
- use the resulting beam object for very fast convolution of all sky signals with the effective optical response of the observing mission
Computation of the effective beams at each pixel for every detector is a challenging task for high resolution experiments. FEBeCoP is an efficient algorithm and implementation which enabled us to compute the pixel based effective beams using moderate computational resources. The algorithm used different mathematical and computational techniques to bring down the computation cost to a practical level, whereby several estimations of the effective beams were possible for all Planck detectors for different scan and beam models, as well as different lengths of datasets.
Pixel Ordered Detector Angles (PODA)[edit]
The main challenge in computing the effective beams is to go through the trillion samples, which gets severely limited by I/O. In the first stage, for a given dataset, ordered lists of pointing angles for each pixel - the Pixel Ordered Detector Angles (PODA) are made. This is an one-time process for each dataset. We used computers with large memory and used tedious memory management bookkeeping to make this step efficient.
effBeam[edit]
The effBeam part makes use of the precomputed PODA and unsynchronized reading from the disk to compute the beam. Here we tried to made sure that no repetition occurs in evaluating a trigonometric quantity.
One important reason for separating the two steps is that they use different schemes of parallel computing. The PODA part requires parallelisation over time-order-data samples, while the effBeam part requires distribution of pixels among different computers.
Computational Cost[edit]
The computation of the effective beams has been performed at the NERSC Supercomputing Center. The table below shows the computation cost for FEBeCoP processing of the nominal mission.
Channel | 030 | 044 | 070 | 100 | 143 | 217 | 353 | 545 | 857 |
PODA/Detector Computation time (CPU hrs) | 85 | 100 | 250 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 |
PODA/Detector Computation time (wall clock hrs) | 7 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
Beam/Channel Computation time (CPU hrs) | 900 | 2000 | 2300 | 2800 | 3800 | 3200 | 3000 | 900 | 1100 |
Beam/Channel Computation time (wall clock hrs) | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1 | 1.5 | 2 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Convolution Computation time (CPU hr) | 1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
Convolution Computation time (wall clock sec) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Effective Beam Size (GB) | 173 | 123 | 28 | 187 | 182 | 146 | 132 | 139 | 124 |
The computation cost, especially for PODA and Convolution, is heavily limited by the I/O capacity of the disc and so it depends on the overall usage of the cluster done by other users.
Inputs[edit]
In order to fix the convention of presentation of the scanning and effective beams, we show the classic view of the Planck focal plane as seen by the incoming CMB photon. The scan direction is marked, and the toward the center of the focal plane is at the 85 deg angle w.r.t spin axis pointing upward in the picture.
The Focal Plane DataBase (FPDB)[edit]
The FPDB contains information on each detector, e.g., the orientation of the polarisation axis, different weight factors, (see the instrument RIMOs):
- HFI - The HFI RIMO
- LFI - The LFI RIMO
The scanning strategy[edit]
The scanning strategy, the three pointing angle for each detector for each sample: Detector pointings for the nominal mission covers about 15 months of observation from Operational Day (OD) 91 to OD 563 covering 3 surveys and half.
The scanbeam[edit]
The scanbeam modeled for each detector through the observation of planets. Which was assumed to be constant over the whole mission, though FEBeCoP could be used for a few sets of scanbeams too.
- LFI: GRASP scanning beam - the scanning beams used are based on Radio Frequency Tuned Model (RFTM) smeared to simulate the in-flight optical response.
- HFI: B-Spline, BS based on 2 observations of Mars.
(see the instrument RIMOs).
Beam cutoff radii[edit]
N times geometric mean of FWHM of all detectors in a channel, where N
channel | Cutoff Radii in units of fwhm | fwhm of full beam extent |
30 - 44 - 70 | 2.5 | |
100 | 2.25 | 23.703699 |
143 | 3 | 21.057402 |
217-353 | 4 | 18.782754 |
sub-mm | 4 | 18.327635(545GHz) ; 17.093706(857GHz) |
Map resolution for the derived beam data object[edit]
- LFI frequency channels for
- HFI frequency channels for
Related products[edit]
Monte Carlo simulations[edit]
FEBeCoP software enables fast, full-sky convolutions of the sky signals with the Effective beams in pixel domain. Hence, a large number of Monte Carlo simulations of the sky signal maps map convolved with realistically rendered, spatially varying, asymmetric Planck beams can be easily generated. We performed the following steps:
- generate the effective beams with FEBeCoP for all frequencies for dDX9 data and Nominal Mission
- generate 100 realizations of maps from a fiducial CMB power spectrum
- convolve each one of these maps with the effective beams using FEBeCoP
- estimate the average of the Power Spectrum of each convolved realization, and 1 errors
As FEBeCoP enables fast convolutions of the input signal sky with the effective beam, thousands of simulations are generated. These Monte Carlo simulations of the signal (might it be CMB or a foreground (e.g. dust)) sky along with LevelS+Madam noise simulations were used widely for the analysis of Planck data. A suite of simulations were rendered during the mission tagged as Full Focalplane simulations, FFP#.
For example FFP6
Beam Window Functions[edit]
The Transfer Function or the Beam Window Function
relates the true angular power spectra with the observed angular power spectra :
Note that, the window function can contain a pixel window function (depending on the definition) and it is {\em not the angular power spectra of the scanbeams}, though, in principle, one may be able to connect them though fairly complicated algebra.
The window functions are estimated by performing Monte-Carlo simulations. We generate several random realisations of the CMB sky starting from a given fiducial , convolve the maps with the pre-computed effective beams, compute the convolved power spectra , divide by the power spectra of the unconvolved map and average over their ratio. Thus, the estimated window function
For subtle reasons, we perform a more rigorous estimation of the window function by comparing C^{conv}_l with convolved power spectra of the input maps convolved with a symmetric Gaussian beam of comparable (but need not be exact) size and then scaling the estimated window function accordingly.
Beam window functions are provided in the RIMO.
Beam Window functions, Wl, for Planck mission[edit]
Retrieval of effective beam information from the PLA interface[edit]
In order to retrieve the effective beam information, the user should:
- Launch the Java interface from the Planck Legacy Archive;
- Once the PLA interface is loaded go to Sky maps;
- On the Sky maps interface click on the icon on the left of the Effective beams area;
- The search interface for effective beams allows the user to retrieve the beam nearest to the input source (name or coordinates), or to retrieve a set of beams in a grid defined by the ROI" parameter. and the size of the region around a source (name or coordinates). The resolution of this grid is defined by the parametera and the size of the region is defined by the "Radius of
Once the user proceeds with querying the beams, the PLA software retrieves the appropriate set of effective beams from the database and delivers it in a FITS file containin a HEALPix map of the beam which can be directly downloaded.
File Names[edit]
The effective beams are provided by the PLA as FITS files containg HEALPix maps of the beams. For the file names the following convention is used:
- Single beam query: beams_FFF_PixelNumber.fits
- FFF is the channel frequency (one of 30, 44, 70, 100, 143, 217, 353, 545, 857);
- PixelNumber is the number of the pixel to which the beam corresponds (LFI , for the HFI ; - ). For the
- Multiple beam query: beams_FFF_FirstPixelNumber-LastPixelNumber.zip
The compressed files contains a set of files with the beams for the pixels covereing the selected region. FFF as for sinle beam query. The naming convention for the beam files contained in the .zip file is the same as for single beam queries.- FirstPixelNumber is the lowest pixel number for the area covered by the request;
- LastPixelNumber is the highest pixel number for the area covered by the request;
File format[edit]
The FITS files provided by the PLA contain HEALPix maps of the beams.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.01.1 Fast Pixel Space Convolution for Cosmic Microwave Background Surveys with Asymmetric Beams and Complex Scan Strategies: FEBeCoP, S. Mitra, G. Rocha, K. M. Górski, K. M. Huffenberger, H. K. Eriksen, M. A. J. Ashdown, C. R. Lawrence, ApJS, 193, 5-+, (2011).
- ↑ Planck 2013 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions, Planck Collaboration, 2014, A&A, 571, A4.
- ↑ Planck 2015 results. IV. LFI beams and window functions, Planck Collaboration, 2016, A&A, 594, A4.
- ↑ Planck 2013 results. VII. HFI time response and beams, Planck Collaboration, 2014, A&A, 571, A7.
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(Planck) Low Frequency Instrument
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Planck Legacy Archive
Flexible Image Transfer Specification
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