The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps
Abstract
We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three frequency bands centered on 98, 150 and 220 GHz. The maps are based on data collected with the AdvancedACT camera over the period 2017--2022 and cover 19,000 square degrees with a median combined depth of 10 uK arcmin. We describe the instrument, mapmaking and map properties and illustrate them with a number of figures and tables. The ACT DR6 maps and derived products are available on LAMBDA at https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/actadv_prod_table.html. We also provide an interactive web atlas at https://phy-act1.princeton.edu/public/snaess/actpol/dr6/atlas and HiPS data sets in Aladin (e.g. https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/ACT/DR4DR6/color_CMB).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.14451,
title = {The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps},
author = {Sigurd Naess and Yilun Guan and Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden and Matthew Hasselfield and Yuhan Wang and Irene Abril-Cabezas and Graeme E. Addison and Peter A. R. Ade and Simone Aiola and Tommy Alford and David Alonso and Mandana Amiri and Rui An and Zachary Atkins and Jason E. Austermann and Eleonora Barbavara and Nicholas Battaglia and Elia Stefano Battistelli and James A. Beall and Rachel Bean and Ali Beheshti and Benjamin Beringue and Tanay Bhandarkar and Emily Biermann and Boris Bolliet and J Richard Bond and Erminia Calabrese and Valentina Capalbo and Felipe Carrero and Stephen Chen and Grace Chesmore and Hsiao-mei Cho and Steve K. Choi and Susan E. Clark and Rodrigo Cordova Rosado and Nicholas F. Cothard and Kevin Coughlin and William Coulton and Devin Crichton and Kevin T. Crowley and Mark J. Devlin and Simon Dicker and Cody J. Duell and Shannon M. Duff and Jo Dunkley and Rolando Dunner and Carmen Embil Villagra and Max Fankhanel and Gerrit S. Farren and Simone Ferraro and Allen Foster and Rodrigo Freundt and Brittany Fuzia and Patricio A. Gallardo and Xavier Garrido and Serena Giardiello and Ajay Gill and Jahmour Givans and Vera Gluscevic and Joseph E. Golec and Yulin Gong and Mark Halpern and Ian Harrison and Erin Healy and Shawn Henderson and Brandon Hensley and Carlos Hervías-Caimapo and J. Colin Hill and Gene C. Hilton and Matt Hilton and Adam D. Hincks and Renée Hložek and Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho and John Hood and Erika Hornecker and Zachary B. Huber and Johannes Hubmayr and Kevin M. Huffenberger and John P. Hughes and Margaret Ikape and Kent Irwin and Giovanni Isopi and Hidde T. Jense and Neha Joshi and Ben Keller and Joshua Kim and Kenda Knowles and Brian J. Koopman and Arthur Kosowsky and Darby Kramer and Aleksandra Kusiak and Adrien La Posta and Alex Laguë and Victoria Lakey and Eunseong Lee and Yaqiong Li and Zack Li and Michele Limon and Martine Lokken and Thibaut Louis and Marius Lungu and Niall MacCrann and Amanda MacInnis and Mathew S. Madhavacheril and Diego Maldonado and Felipe Maldonado and Maya Mallaby-Kay and Gabriela A. Marques and Joshiwa van Marrewijk and Fiona McCarthy and Jeff McMahon and Yogesh Mehta and Felipe Menanteau and Kavilan Moodley and Thomas W. Morris and Tony Mroczkowski and Toshiya Namikawa and Federico Nati and Simran K. Nerval and Laura Newburgh and Andrina Nicola and Michael D. Niemack and Michael R. Nolta and John Orlowski-Scherer and Lyman A. Page and Shivam Pandey and Bruce Partridge and Karen Perez Sarmiento and Heather Prince and Roberto Puddu and Frank J. Qu and Rodrigo Quiroga and Damien C. Ragavan and Bernardita Ried Guachalla and Keir K. Rogers and Felipe Rojas and Tai Sakuma and Emmanuel Schaan and Benjamin L. Schmitt and Neelima Sehgal and Shabbir Shaikh and Blake D. Sherwin and Carlos Sierra and Jon Sievers and Cristóbal Sifón and Sara Simon and Rita Sonka and David N. Spergel and Suzanne T. Staggs and Emilie Storer and Kristen Surrao and Eric R. Switzer and Niklas Tampier and Robert Thornton and Hy Trac and Carole Tucker and Joel Ullom and Leila R. Vale and Alexander Van Engelen and Jeff Van Lanen and Cristian Vargas and Eve M. Vavagiakis and Kasey Wagoner and Lukas Wenzl and Edward J. Wollack and Kaiwen Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14451},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
37+25 pages, 21+19 figures, 12+1 tables. Part of DR6 suite of papers submitted to JCAP. Data located at https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/actadv_prod_table.html