The RIMO

Overview

The RIMO, or Reduced Instrument Model is a FITS file containing selected instrument characteristics that are needed by users who work with the released data products. It is described in detail in The HFI and LFI RIMO ICD (ref). There will be two RIMOs, one for each instrument, which will follow the same overall structure, but will differ in the details. The type of data in the RIMO can be:

Parameter 

namely scalars to give properties such as a noise level or a representative beam FWHM

Table 

to give, e.g., filter transmission profiles or noise power spectra

Map 

namely 2-D "flat" maps, to give, e.g., the main beam shape

The different types of data are written into different BINTABLE extensions of the FITS file, and these are described below.

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Map-level parameter data

The map-level data table contains the effective beam solid angle (total and out to different multiples of the beamFWHM) and noise information as follows:

FREQUENCY 

a 3-digit string giving the reference frequency in GHz, i.e., of the form 044 or 217

Omega_total

total beam solid angle in armin^2

Omega_1fwhm 

beam solid angle out to 1FWHM in arcmin^2

Omega_2fwhm 

beam solid angle out to 2FWHM in arcmin^2

FWHM_eff 

FWHM of a Gaussian beam having the same (total) solid angle, in sr. This is the best value for source flux determination

FWHM_gauss 

FWHM derived from best Gaussian fit to beam maps, in sr. This is the best value for source identification

NOISE 

This is the typical noise/valid observation sample as derived from an appropriate combination of the NETs of the valid detectors used in the map.

For the Omega columns, the 'DISP' (for dispersion) column gives an estimate of the spatial variation as a function of position on the sky. This is the variation induced by combining the scanning beam determined from the planet observations with the scanning strategy, as described in Detectors pointing & beam.

The BINTABLE extension has the following structure

Effective band transmission profiles

The effective filter bandpasses are given in different BINTABLE extensions. The extension is named BANDPASS_{name}, where name specified the frequency channel. In the case of the maps, the bandpasses are a weighted average of the bandpasses of the detectors that are used to build the map. For details see #planck2013-p03d. The bandpasses are given as 4-column tables containing:

WAVENUMBER 

the wavenumber in cm-1, conversion to GHz is accomplished by multiplying by [math]10^{-7}c[/math] [mks].

TRANSMISSION 

the transmission (normalized to 1 at the max for HFI and to have an integral of 1 for LFI)

ERROR 

the statistical [math]1-\sigma[/math] uncertainty for the transmission profile (not provided for LFI).

FLAG 

a flag indicating if the data point is an independent frequency data point (nominally the case), or an FTS instrument line shape (ILS)-interpolated data point. The frequency data has been over-sampled by a factor of ~10 to assist in CO component separation efforts #planck2013-p03a, #planck2013-p03d.

The number of rows will differ among the different extensions, but are the same, by construction, within each extension.