Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series Vol. 239; no. 1
• Main Authors: Chown, R., Omori, Y., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Henning, J. W., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Holder, G., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Simard, G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Saskatoon The American Astronomical Society 12.11.2018; IOP Publishing; American Astronomical Society/IOP
• Subjects: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; Millimeter waves; Power spectra; Satellites; Sky surveys (astronomy); South Pole; Spherical harmonics; Temperature data
• ISSN: 0067-0049; 1538-4365; 1538-4365
• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aae694

We present three maps of the millimeter-wave sky created by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Planck satellite. We use data from the SPT-SZ survey, a survey of 2540 deg2 of the the sky with arcminute resolution in three bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, and the full-mission Planck temperature data in the 100, 143, and 217 GHz bands. A linear combination of the SPT-SZ and Planck data is computed in spherical harmonic space, with weights derived from the noise of both instruments. This weighting scheme results in Planck data providing most of the large-angular-scale information in the combined maps, with the smaller-scale information coming from SPT-SZ data. A number of tests have been done on the maps. We find their angular power spectra to agree very well with theoretically predicted spectra and previously published results.