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MAPS of the MAGELLANIC CLOUDS from COMBINED SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE and PLANCK DATA
TM Crawford, R Chown, GP Holder, KA Aird, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, HM Cho, AT Crites, TD Haan, MA Dobbs, EM George, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, WL Holzapfel, Z Hou, JD Hrubes, R Keisler, L Knox Show all
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
We present maps of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds from combined South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck data. The Planck satellite observes in nine bands, while the SPT data used in this work were taken with the three-band SPT-SZ camera, The SPT-SZ bands correspond closely to three of the nine Planck bands, namely those centered at 1.4, 2.1, and 3.0 mm. The angular resolution of the Planck data ranges from 5 to 10 arcmin, while the SPT resolution ranges from 1.0 to 1.7 arcmin. The combined maps take advantage of the high resolution of the SPT data and the long-timescale stability of the space-based Planck observations to deliver robust brightness measurements on scales from the size of ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The South Pole Telescope is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant PLR-1248097. Partial support is also provided by the NSF Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-1125897 to the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Kavli Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant GBMF 947. The McGill group acknowledges funding from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Research Chairs program, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Argonne National Laboratory work was supported under U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. We thank M. Meixner and the HERITAGE team for making their data publicly available and K. Ganga for helpful discussion on Planck map properties.