Gauss--Legendre Sky Pixelization (GLESP) for CMB maps
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v4
Abstract
A new scheme of sky pixelization is developed for CMB maps. The scheme is based on the Gauss--Legendre polynomials zeros and allows one to create strict orthogonal expansion of the map. A corresponding code has been implemented and comparison with other methods has been done.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0305537,
title = {Gauss--Legendre Sky Pixelization (GLESP) for CMB maps},
author = {A. G. Doroshkevich and P. D. Naselsky and O. V. Verkhodanov and D. I. Novikov and V. I. Turchaninov and I. D. Novikov and P. R. Christensen and L. -Y. Chiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0305537},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures. Int. J. Mod. Phys. D accepted. For the GLESP software package v1.0 see http://www.glesp.nbi.dk/ (www.glesp.nbi.dk)