Effective Beams

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Effective beams are located at nersc: and in both the HFI and LFI DPCs at:

• • On disk: /space/SimuData/effBeam_HFI_v41

• • DMC group: /data/dmc/MISS01/DATA/FEBeCoP_v41

Interface modules were developed to easily access the beams and the PSFs from the disk and the database. For HFI: The codes for reading the beams/PSFs and demonstration programs (http://cvs.planck.fr/cvs/Level2/Task_pkg/HL2_FEBeCoP/) FOr LFI:

The interface contains Fortran 90 routines to read the beams either from disk or from database. There are IDL routines also to read the beams from disk with detailed inbuilt help and fast examples.

There are two sets of (serial) demonstration programs:

1. to extract beams/PSF at any given set of pixels from disk/database and make .fits skymaps

• • beam_extract_f : extract beams from disk
  • beam_extract_f_PIO: extract beams from database
  • psf_extract_f  : extract PSF from disk
  • psf_extract_f_PIO : extract PSF from database

1. to make a full sky convolution of input maps with effective beams

• • effConv : convolve map reading beam from disk
  • effConv_PIO : convolve map reading beam from database

Example parameter files (with explanation) for these demonstration programs are available here: http://cvs.planck.fr/cvs/Level2/Task_pkg/HL2_FEBeCoP/params/

A detailed README on the usage of the routines and the programs are available as: http://cvs.planck.fr/cvs/Level2/Task_pkg/HL2_FEBeCoP/README.txt

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