Planck 2015 results. XII. Full Focal Plane simulations
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2016-09-21 v1
Abstract
We present the 8th Full Focal Plane simulation set (FFP8), deployed in support of the Planck 2015 results. FFP8 consists of 10 fiducial mission realizations reduced to 18144 maps, together with the most massive suite of Monte Carlo realizations of instrument noise and CMB ever generated, comprising mission realizations reduced to about maps. The resulting maps incorporate the dominant instrumental, scanning, and data analysis effects; remaining subdominant effects will be included in future updates. Generated at a cost of some 25 million CPU-hours spread across multiple high-performance-computing (HPC) platforms, FFP8 is used for the validation and verification of analysis algorithms, as well as their implementations, and for removing biases from and quantifying uncertainties in the results of analyses of the real data.
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@article{arxiv.1509.06348,
title = {Planck 2015 results. XII. Full Focal Plane simulations},
author = {Planck Collaboration and P. A. R. Ade and N. Aghanim and M. Arnaud and M. Ashdown and J. Aumont and C. Baccigalupi and A. J. Banday and R. B. Barreiro and J. G. Bartlett and N. Bartolo and E. Battaner and K. Benabed and A. Benoît and A. Benoit-Lévy and J. -P. Bernard and M. Bersanelli and P. Bielewicz and J. J. Bock and A. Bonaldi and L. Bonavera and J. R. Bond and J. Borrill and F. R. Bouchet and F. Boulanger and M. Bucher and C. Burigana and R. C. Butler and E. Calabrese and J. -F. Cardoso and G. Castex and A. Catalano and A. Challinor and A. Chamballu and H. C. Chiang and P. R. Christensen and D. L. Clements and S. Colombi and L. P. L. Colombo and C. Combet and F. Couchot and A. Coulais and B. P. Crill and A. Curto and F. Cuttaia and L. Danese and R. D. Davies and R. J. Davis and P. de Bernardis and A. de Rosa and G. de Zotti and J. Delabrouille and J. -M. Delouis and F. -X. Désert and C. Dickinson and J. M. Diego and K. Dolag and H. Dole and S. Donzelli and O. Doré and M. Douspis and A. Ducout and X. Dupac and G. Efstathiou and F. Elsner and T. A. Enßlin and H. K. Eriksen and J. Fergusson and F. Finelli and O. Forni and M. Frailis and A. A. Fraisse and E. Franceschi and A. Frejsel and S. Galeotta and S. Galli and K. Ganga and T. Ghosh and M. Giard and Y. Giraud-Héraud and E. Gjerløw and J. González-Nuevo and K. M. Górski and S. Gratton and A. Gregorio and A. Gruppuso and J. E. Gudmundsson and F. K. Hansen and D. Hanson and D. L. Harrison and S. Henrot-Versillé and C. Hernández-Monteagudo and D. Herranz and S. R. Hildebrandt and E. Hivon and M. Hobson and W. A. Holmes and A. Hornstrup and W. Hovest and K. M. Huffenberger and G. Hurier and A. H. Jaffe and T. R. Jaffe and W. C. Jones and M. Juvela and A. Karakci and E. Keihänen and R. Keskitalo and K. Kiiveri and T. S. Kisner and R. Kneissl and J. Knoche and M. Kunz and H. Kurki-Suonio and G. Lagache and J. -M. Lamarre and A. Lasenby and M. Lattanzi and C. R. Lawrence and R. Leonardi and J. Lesgourgues and F. Levrier and M. Liguori and P. B. Lilje and M. Linden-Vørnle and V. Lindholm and M. López-Caniego and P. M. Lubin and J. F. Macías-Pérez and G. Maggio and D. Maino and N. Mandolesi and A. Mangilli and M. Maris and P. G. Martin and E. Martínez-González and S. Masi and S. Matarrese and P. McGehee and P. R. Meinhold and A. Melchiorri and J. -B. Melin and L. Mendes and A. Mennella and M. Migliaccio and S. Mitra and M. -A. Miville-Deschênes and A. Moneti and L. Montier and G. Morgante and D. Mortlock and A. Moss and D. Munshi and J. A. Murphy and P. Naselsky and F. Nati and P. Natoli and C. B. Netterfield and H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen and F. Noviello and D. Novikov and I. Novikov and C. A. Oxborrow and F. Paci and L. Pagano and F. Pajot and D. Paoletti and F. Pasian and G. Patanchon and T. J. Pearson and O. Perdereau and L. Perotto and F. Perrotta and V. Pettorino and F. Piacentini and M. Piat and E. Pierpaoli and D. Pietrobon and S. Plaszczynski and E. Pointecouteau and G. Polenta and G. W. Pratt and G. Prézeau and S. Prunet and J. -L. Puget and J. P. Rachen and R. Rebolo and M. Reinecke and M. Remazeilles and C. Renault and A. Renzi and I. Ristorcelli and G. Rocha and M. Roman and C. Rosset and M. Rossetti and G. Roudier and J. A. Rubiño-Martín and B. Rusholme and M. Sandri and D. Santos and M. Savelainen and D. Scott and M. D. Seiffert and E. P. S. Shellard and L. D. Spencer and V. Stolyarov and R. Stompor and R. Sudiwala and D. Sutton and A. -S. Suur-Uski and J. -F. Sygnet and J. A. Tauber and L. Terenzi and L. Toffolatti and M. Tomasi and M. Tristram and M. Tucci and J. Tuovinen and L. Valenziano and J. Valiviita and B. Van Tent and P. Vielva and F. Villa and L. A. Wade and B. D. Wandelt and I. K. Wehus and N. Welikala and D. Yvon and A. Zacchei and A. Zonca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06348},
year = {2016}
}