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Apr 24 2018, Clem Pryke

For CMB-S4 project we have made simulations using a number of different foreground models plus lensed-LCDM, noise and tensors. These are described at Data challenge summary page and in a series of logbook postings.

I have exploited this work for PICO to make equivalent sims. I first made PySM input maps for the PICO band centers as listed in the v3.2 spreadsheet at imageroptions. I did this for delta function bandwidths to keep things simple. Everything is nside=512 and beam smoothing is applied to signal components with beam widths as per the v3.2 spreadsheet. Noise levels are also as per the v3.2 spreadsheet.

Everyting below is available on NERSC under /project/projectdirs/pico/. Under sky_yy we have the sky models where yy designates the sky model number:

• 91=PySM a1d1f1s1
• 92=PySM a2d4f1s3
• 93=PySM a2d7f1s3
• 96=Brandon's MHD model taken from /global/homes/b/bhensley/mhd_maps/maps_v1 on 180424