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CLASS 90 GHz 2021-2024 EE Power Spectra Unbinned EE spectrum for 2 ≤ ℓ ≤ 30 and binned EE spectrum for 31 ≤ ℓ< 301 from
Li et al. (2025).
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2025-05-12
SPT-3G 2019-2020 Lensing and Unlensed E-mode Likelihood The SPT-3G CMB lensing and delensed E-mode Likelihood described by
Ge, Millea et al (2025) is now available on LAMBDA
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2025-04-07
Updated Juno Spacecraft Sky Map Products Data files and desriptions have been updated in 2025, and replace the preliminary (pre-publication) files from 2024. Revisions include re-making some of the maps and updating the estimate of the correlated map-space errors.
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2025-03-27
ACT DR6.02 release The ACT DR6.02 release, including thousands of maps, MCMC chains and other data products, is now available on LAMBDA
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2025-03-18
ACT Lensing x unWISE galaxy cross-correlation analysis Data products from the ACT Lensing x unWISE galaxy cross-correlation analysis described by Farren et al. (
abs/2409.02109)
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2025-02-19
CMB Power Spectrum Plots Plots of the TT, TE, and EE power spectra on the LAMBDA graphics page have been updated.
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2024-11-05
Planck Revisited Polarized Synchrotron Maps Planck revisited polarized synchrotron maps from Ghosh et al. (2024) are now available on LAMBDA
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2024-10-04
Planck Revisited CO Maps Planck revisited CO maps from Delabrouille (2024) are now available on LAMBDA
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2024-10-01
Build a Universe game Return of the CMB Analyzer teaching tool, rechristened as the Build a Universe game.
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2024-08-29
PIXIE Baseline Mission IQU Sensitivities Stokes I,Q,U sensitivities as a function of frequency are provided for the PIXIE baseline mission concept.
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2024-05-29
Juno Spacecraft Sky Map Products Nearly full-sky maps at six frequencies (0.6 - 22 GHz) constructed from data taken by radiometers on the Juno Spacecraft during its journey to Jupiter.
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2024-05-14
CLASS 40 GHz Combined Products Combined Stokes Q and U maps made with CLASS 40 GHz and WMAP Q-band data, with additional products.
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2024-04-30
ACT DR6 Compton-y Map This repository contains the Compton-y map obtained from combining Planck and ACT DR6 data.
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2024-03-24
Dame & Thaddeus 2022 Velocity Integrated CO Map Compositie map of the CO survey of Dame, Hartmann & Thaddeus (2001), and subsequent complementary coverage of the entire northern sky (decl > -17 deg).
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2024-02-26
ACT/MBAC Southern Sources Catalog The ACT/MBAC catalog of extragalactic southern sources at 150, 220 and 280 GHz, described by
Vargas et al (2023), is now available on LAMBDA.
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2023-10-30
CLASS 40 GHz 2016-2022 Data Release (DR1) CLASS DR1 40 GHz data products including maps, masks and noise simulations are now available on LAMBDA.
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2023-09-05
Corrected SFD Dust Reddening Map Corrected SFD dust reddening map with improved separation of extragalactic dust, presented by Chiang (2023).
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2023-06-23
Dwingeloo 820 MHz Continuum Map Fix distributed by CADE to update FITS header. Data have not changed.
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2023-05-24
ACT DR6 CMB Lensing Likelihood Data Release The ACT DR6 CMB lensing likelihood is now available on LAMBDA
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2023-04-11
SPIDER 1 CMB Data Release SPIDER 1 CMB data products including maps, masks, EE/EB/BB power spectra, and likelihood values as a function of r, presented in ApJ 927, 174 (2022), are now available on LAMBDA
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2023-03-27
QUIJOTE MFI Data Release 1 QUIJOTE MFI Data Release 1 data products including Stokes IQU maps at 11, 13, 17 and 19 GHz are now available on LAMBDA
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2023-02-01
SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE CMB bandpowers and likelihood code We provide files in a zip archive here that can be added to the June 2021 version of CosmoMC to interface with the SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE bandpowers discussed above.
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2023-01-11
Weiland et al. 2022 Polarized Synchrotron Spectral Index Polarized Synchrotron Spectral Index from Weiland et al. 2022
Low resolution map of polarized synchrotron spectral index derived for 44% of the sky.
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2022-08-31
FIRAS Line Intensities from Fixsen et al. 1999 Intensities for 19 spectral lines, including C+ 158 μm and N+ 205 μm.
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2022-05-24
CMB and Radio Monopole Spectrum A plot of the CMB and radio monopole spectrum has been added to the LAMBDA graphics pages.
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2022-03-23
EDA2 159 MHz map The Engineering Development Array 2 159 MHz radio continuum map is now available on LAMBDA.
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2022-02-18
BICEP/Keck October 2021 data products BICEP/Keck October 2021 data products, including spectra, likelihoods, chains files, and more, are now available on LAMBDA
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2021-10-21
Vansyngel et al. simulations Vansyngel et al. simulations: Full-sky simulations of polarized Galactic dust and synchrotron emission presented by
Vansyngel et al. (2017) are now available on LAMBDA
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2021-09-16
Color Correction Software Software for calculating color correction factors to COBE/DIRBE photometry for a user-specified source spectrum is now available on LAMBDA
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2021-08-31
WMAP Optimal Time Domain Filters / Version 5.1 Filters for all DAs in version 5.0 were repetitions of the K-band filter. Version 5.1 updates the files to contain the correct filter for each DA.
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2021-08-11
CMB Solar Dipole Plots Amplitude and direction of the CMB solar velocity dipole, as determined independently by five separate investigations.
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2021-07-21
Zodiacal light model Entries for the Spitzer zodiacal light model and the Wright zodiacal light model have been added to LAMBDA's foreground modeling codes
page .
2021-06-22
ACT Galactic Center maps ACT maps of the Galactic Center described by Guan et al. (2021) are now available on LAMBDA
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2021-05-27
CMB/kSZ and Compton-y Maps CMB/kSZ and Compton-y maps from 2500 sq deg of SPT-SZ and Planck data, presented by Bleem et al. (2021), are now available on LAMBDA
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2021-04-20
SPT-3G TE/EE Bandpowers and Likelihood The SPT-3G TE and EE CMB power spectrum bandpowers and likelihood described by Dutcher et al. (2021) are now available on LAMBDA
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2021-04-12
ACTpol DR5 Coadd maps ACT DR5 maps covering 18,000 sq deg, intended for point source studies, Galactic science, and SZ cluster analyses, are now available on LAMBDA See paper by
Naess et al. More info...
2021-02-12
ACTPol DR5 Cluster Catalogs ACT DR5 SZ galaxy cluster catalogs from Hilton et al. (2020) are now public on LAMBDA
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2020-12-04
CMB power spectrum plots Plots of the CMB power spectra on the LAMBDA graphics page have been updated with 2020 ACTPol and POLARBEAR results, and updated data files have been added to the LAMBDA
CMBpol plotting github repository. More info...
2020-09-24
WHAM H Alpha Map Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper all-sky velocity-integrated map available on LAMBDA
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2020-07-16
ACT DR4 Data Release The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 4 (DR4) is now available on LAMBDA.
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2020-07-15
DRAO 10 MHz maps DRAO 10 MHz radio continuum map are now available on LAMBDA.
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2020-06-12
Parkes 85 MHz radio continuum map HEALPix versions of the Parkes 85 MHz radio continuum map are now available on LAMBDA.
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2020-06-12
CLASS Software CLASS experiment atmospheric emission model and CMB E-mode interpolation software now available on LAMBDA
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2020-06-01
SPT Point Souce Catalog The South Pole Telescope point source catalog and data products described by Everett et al. (2020) are now available on LAMBDA
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2020-04-22
SPT-SZ + SPTPol Power Spectra / Version
1Bandpowers and likelihood code from the joint SPT-SZ + SPTpol analysis presented by Reichardt et al. (2020) are now available on LAMBDA
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2020-03-12
Meisner and Finkbeiner 2015 dust reddening map A map of interstellar dust reddening derived from Planck and DIRBE/IRAS data by Meisner and Finkbeiner (2015) is now available.
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2020-02-20
Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Plots of the gravitational lensing power spectrum on the LAMBDA graphics page have been updated, and an updated data file has been added to the LAMBDA
CMBpol plotting github repository .
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2020-02-03
Rhodes/HartRAO 2326 MHz radio continuum map The Rhodes/HartRAO 2326 MHz radio continuum map covering 67% of the sky is now available on LAMBDA.
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2020-01-28
Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) now available on LAMBDA! The first CLASS circular polarization bandpowers are available here:
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2020-01-22
SPT+Herschel/SPIRE Power Spectra Cross power spectra of cosmic infrared and microwave background fluctuations from 95 to 1200 GHz (Viero et al. 2019) are now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-12-20
2019 Lensing Bandpowers SPTpol lensing bandpowers and likelihood code from Bianchini et al. (2019) are now available on LAMBDA
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2019-11-26
SPTpol BB likelihood code Likelihood code for the Sayre et al. (2019) SPTpol measurement of B-modes is now available on LAMBDA
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2019-11-18
SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey catalog The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey catalog from Bleem et al. (2019) is now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-11-07
SPTpol SZ Cluster Catalog The SPTpol 100d SZ cluster catalog (Huang et al. 2019) is now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-09-27
Lenz et al Cosmic Infrared Background Maps Cosmic Infrared Background maps formed from Planck intensity maps by
Lenz et al. 2019 are now available on LAMBDA.
2019-09-16
Sroll 2.0 Maps and Simulations Alternatively processed Planck HFI temperature and polarization maps from
Delouis et al. 2019. are now available.
2019-09-16
Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Plots of the gravitational lensing power spectrum on the LAMBDA graphics page have been updated, and an updated data file has been added to the LAMBDA CMBpol plotting github repository.
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2019-08-14
TIGRESS Simulated Dust Emission Maps TIGRESS simulated dust emission maps in Stokes I,Q,U are now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-06-13
All-sky 150 MHz map of Landecker and Wielebinski The all-sky 150 MHz map of Landecker and Wielebinski (1970) is now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-05-24
Maipu and MU Radar 45 MHz Map The Maipu and MU Radar 45 MHz radio continuum all-sky map (Guzman et al 2011) is now available on LAMBDA
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2019-05-21
Dwingeloo 820 MHz Continuum Map The Dwingeloo 820 MHz radio continuum map (Berkhuijsen 1972) is now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-05-15
Data Release Products for 277 GHz ACT point source catalogs and 277 GHz maps from the equatorial survey are now available on LAMBDA
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2019-05-08
S-PASS 2.3 GHz Polarization Survey Data release 1 of the S-PASS 2.3 GHz polarization survey of the southern sky is now available on LAMBDA.
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2019-04-19
Microwave Sky Simulations Updated versions of the microwave sky simulations presented by Sehgal et al. (2009), used in the Simons Observatory forecasting paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07445, are now available on LAMBDA
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2019-04-11
Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) Data products from the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) results presented by Kusaka et al., including 145 GHz mps and power spectra, are now available on LAMBDA
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2018-12-05
OVRO-LWA radio maps OVRO-LWA radio maps at eight frequencies from 36 to 73 MHz are now available at LAMBDA.
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2018-07-30
HI4PI High Velocity HI An all-sky map of Galactic high-velocity clouds from the 21-cm HI4PI survey is now available, and the full velocity HI4PI HI column density map remains
available. More info...
2018-06-12
Stockert and Villa-Elisa 1.4 GHz Continuum Map The all-sky 1.4 GHz continuum map from the Stockert and Villa-Elisa surveys is now available at
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2018-05-10
SPT+Planck lensing Joint SPT-Planck CMB lensing convergence map now available on LAMBDA
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2018-04-27
Component Separation Methods A summary table of component separation methods and codes is now available.
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2018-04-26
Composite H alpha LAMBDA's holdings for the composite all-sky H alpha map have been updated to include HEALPix Nside=1024 and Cartesian projections from D. Finkbeiner's site.
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2018-04-24
South Pole collaboration Archival South Pole collaboration CMB spectrum measurements are now available on LAMBDA.
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2018-04-18
SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature maps Combined SPT and Planck temperature maps from the 2500 sq deg SPT-SZ survey area are now available at LAMBDA.
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2018-04-18
MIPOL (Milano Polarimeter) Milano polarimeter upper limits to CMB circular polarization are now available at LAMBDA.
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2018-04-04
Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Plots of the gravitational lensing power spectrum on the LAMBDA graphics page have been updated, and an updated data file has been added to the LAMBDA
CMBpol plotting github repository.
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2018-03-29
LWA1 Radio Maps Long Wavelength Array radio maps at nine frequencies from 35 to 80 MHz are now available at LAMBDA.
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2018-03-29
Joint SPT-Planck Lensing Analysis Data products related to the cosmological parameters analysis of the SPT+Planck 2500 square-degrees lensing measurement
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2018-02-08
White Mountain collaboration Archival White Mountain collaboration CMB spectrum measurements are now available on LAMBDA.
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2018-01-23
ACTPol SZ cluster catalog The ACTPol two-season SZ cluster catalog is now available at
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2018-01-11
SPT likelihood Updated South Pole Telescope likelihood files for use with newer versions of CosmoMC are now available at
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2018-01-05
CMB BB, EE, and TE power spectra Bandpower plots on now have updated POLARBEAR and SPTPol data.
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2017-12-08
SPIDER 2017 circular polarization Data products from the Nagy et al. 2017 SPIDER circular polarization analysis are now available on LAMBDA at
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2017-09-08
SPTpol TT, EE, and TE SPTpol TT, EE, and TE bandpowers from three seasons of observations are now available at
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2017-09-08
Reddening (E(B_V)) Map (Lenz et al. 2017) We have added the interstellar reddening map from Lenz et al. 2017 to LAMBDA at
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2017-08-01
Actpol Two Season lensing maps ACTPol two-season Lensing maps products are now available.
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2017-07-07
TRIS Data Three Radiometer CMB Spectrum Experiment
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2017-05-12
ACT 148/218 GHz Point Source Catalog This is a catalog of 191 extragalactic sources detected by ACT at 148 and/or 218 GHz in the 2008 Southern survey.
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2017-04-27
Cosmic Birefringence Data The data release for the cosmic birefringence and primordial magnetic field measurements by POLARBEAR
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2017-04-27
CMB data analysis tools PolSpice
We have released all-python implementations of the CMB data analysis tools PolSpice and pure S2HAT beta testers welcome!
2017-02-27
ACTPol two-season maps
ACTPol two-season intensity and polarization map products
2017-02-17
CMB EE and TE power spectra
We have added summary plots of CMB EE and TE power spectra from different experiments to
2017-02-16
CMB-only TT Power Spectrum The plot shows CMB lensed bandpowers from recent ACTPol, Planck, and SPT measurements
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2017-02-13
Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Plots Plots have been updated to LAMBDA graphics page showing measurements CMB experiments of gravitational lensing
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2017-01-30
ACTpol Data Release
ACTpol Two-Season Derived Data Spectra and Parameters
2016-10-12
LCDM Graphical History
An educational resource has been added outlining the standard LCDM model and graphical histories of selected parameters.
2016-09-09
SPT + Planck Magellanic Clouds We have added maps of the Magellanic Clouds from combined South Pole Telescope and Planck data LAMBDA
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2016-05-19
FIRAS CIB Monopole Spectrum Fixsen et al. (1998) modeled the Galactic and interplanetary foreground emission in the FIRAS data to determine the spectrum of the cosmic infrared background.
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2016-05-12
Dust Reddening Map from Green et al. (2015) A map of interstellar dust reddening derived from the 3D reddening map of Green et al. (2015) is now available.
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2016-02-23
Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Plots Plots have been added to LAMBDA's graphics page showing measurements of the gravitational lensing potential power spectrum from different CMB experiments.
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2016-02-22
Cosmological Footprints Tool Released New cosmological survey footprint tool now at in LAMBDA Tools. Source files at Github.
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2015-09-03
QUIET Data Release
QUIET data from their galactic field observations at 43 and 95 GHz is now available on LAMBDA.
2015-08-13
Planck Public Data Release 2 / Version 2
In February 2015, the Planck Collaboration released a subset of the planned new 2015 data products (Public Release 2). Additional data releases are scheduled.
2015-02-12
2014 Reprocessed Haslam 408 MHz Map The reprocessed 408 MHz all-sky map of Remazeilles et al. (2014), with improved source subtraction and destriping, is now available.
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2014-11-18
Online CAMB interface updated The online CAMB tool has been updated to work with the April 2014 version of CAMB.
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2014-11-13
Skyviewer 1.0.1 released / Version 1.0.1
A new version of the skyviewer tool has been released. This version has been built against libQGLViewer 2.5.1 and HEALPix 3.1.1.
2014-07-03
WMAP IDL Software Release / Version 3.1
A new procedure was released to calculate the effective center frequency of each WMAP band for a given spectral index.
2014-06-30
Plot of Upper Limits on BB-mode Polarization / Version
1LAMBDA has created a page for publishing experiment-agnostic graphics and images. The first graphic is a plot showing upper limits on BB-mode polarization from several CMB experiments
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2014-02-19
WMAP Beam Transfer Functions / Version
5.1A new column has been added containing fractional 1-sigma error estimates
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2013-07-24
Planck Data Released
The Planck Team has released sky maps, likelihood software, and other data.
2013-03-21
ACT likelihood Products
Updated ACT likelihood including SPT data, ACT power spectrum data files.
2013-03-13
WMAP Nine-Year Images Images from the Nine-Year WMAP analysis, suitable for use in scientific talks, are now available.
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2013-03-12
WMAP Temperature Point Source Exclusion Mask delivered The WMAP team has released their Temperature-only Point Source Exclusion Mask
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2013-03-11
WMAP Processing Masks Released The WMAP team has released a series of processing masks, the point source catalog mask, and the temperature cleaning mask.
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2013-01-17
ACT Three-Year Likelihood Products
Likelihood products for the ACT 3-year data, including the basic CMB temperature power spectrum likelihood, a lensing likelihood, and a multi-frequency temperature likelihood.
2013-01-14
The WMAP Nine-Year Data Release
The nine-year WMAP data release, including power spectra and the likelihood software, temperature and polarization sky maps, raw and calibrated time-ordered data, ancillary instrument data, and telemetry data. This is the final WMAP data release.
2012-12-20
QUIET Data Available through LAMBDA
The QUIET team has released their first and second season band powers through LAMBDA.
2012-11-28
QUaD Data Available through LAMBDA
The QUaD team has released their sky maps and band powers through LAMBDA.
2012-10-31
WMAP Team Awarded the 2012 Gruber Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Bennett and the WMAP Science Team for being awarded the 2012 Gruber Prize for Cosmology.
2012-08-21
ACT 2008 148 GHz Data Release
ACT has released unbiased maximum-likelihood sky maps, hit count maps, beams, and source masks from their 148 GHz 2008 southern strip data. The strip covers roughly RA=21h30m to 8h and Dec=-57° to -48°.
2012-08-01
COBE "Science on a Sphere" Map Images
Sky map images formatted to be compatible with the NOAA's "Science On A Sphere" 3D visualization system are now available for COBE/DMR."
2012-04-19
Foreground "Science on a Sphere" Map Images
Sky map images formatted to be compatible with the NOAA's "Science On A Sphere" 3D visualization system are now available for seven galactic foreground data sets.
2012-04-19
Haslam 408 MHz Map / Version
1The original version (in HEALPix format) that has not been de-striped nor had point sources filtered out.
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2012-04-05
Updated WMAP MCMC-Chain Foreground Maps / Version
4.1The WMAP Monte Carlo Markov Chain foreground maps underwent a FITS header update to make them compatible with HEALPIX file I/O software.
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2012-01-19
South Pole Telescope Data Release / Version 1
The South Pole Telescope team has released maps and ancillary files from their 2008 observations of the ra5h30dec-55 field.
2011-12-09
WMAP Simulated Sky Model / Version
4Noiseless input models of the CMB+Galaxy used to generate the WMAP Seven-Year Simulated Sky Map products are now available.
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2011-11-04
SPT Likelihood Code The SPT team has released a version of cosmoMC+CAMB modified to interface with the SPT data released by LAMBDA on 08-July-2011.
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2011-09-26
ARCADE 2 Data Delivered Sky maps from the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission (ARCADE 2) experiment have been delivered to LAMBDA.
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2011-08-04
Additional ACT Data Products Released
The ACT team has released the 2008-10 lensing likelihood and chains; MCMC chains from the 2008 analysis; Cosmomc modifications to use the 2008 likelihood; Cosmomc/CAMB modifications to estimate the primordial power spectrum in bins.
2011-07-20
SPT 150 GHz bandpowers Results from 2008+2009 observations are now available covering the multipole range 650 < l < 3000.
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2011-07-08
WMAP BB Power Spectra in Q, V, and W Bands Released The WMAP team has released the BB power spectra for the seven-year delivery in three frequency bands: Q, V, and W.
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2011-06-30
Educational Resources
A new collection of educational materials from instructors willing to share their cosmology-related tools with the community at large.
2011-05-05
Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich Catalog Planck's early release catalog of galaxy clusters identified through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has been made available from LAMBDA to complement the SZ catalogs produced by SPT and ACT.
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2011-03-30
South Pole Telescope (SPT) Data Delivery The SPT team has provided an initial delivery of power spectra and point source catalogs to LAMBDA.
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2011-03-30
WMAP Chain Updates / Version 7.2
The "WMAP 7.1" chains that were released on 11/19/2010 had a small bug that affected the weight attached to each point in the chain. This has been corrected and the WMAP 7.1 chains have been replaced with WMAP 7.2 chains. The main effect of the bug was to introduce some artificial roll-off in the likelihood of the SZ amplitude parameter (which is largely unconstrained by WMAP). There was also some small effect on parameters like Ων2, which also has a sharp cutoff (it has to be greater than zero).
2011-02-09
WMAP "Science on a Sphere" Seven-Year Map Images
The WMAP team has released sky map images compatible with the NOAA "Science on a Sphere" 3D visualization system. These maps are based upon the seven year data release.
2011-01-12
WMAP Google Earth Seven-Year Map Images
The WMAP team has released sky map images compatible with the Google Earth 3D visualization application. These maps are based upon the seven year data release.
2011-01-12
ACT Data Products Released
The ACT team has released power spectra, beam functions, templates, and a point source catalog.
2011-01-03
ACT SZ Clusters 2008 Data
Catalog of 23 galaxy clusters detected by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in 455 square degrees of sky surveyed by ACT during 2008 at 148 GHz. The catalog gives the cluster names, positions, redshifts, signal-to-noise, and measured SZ signal. SZ and optical images of each cluster are also included.
2010-11-19
Additional WMAP Parameter Chains / Version
4.1WMAP has released 6 new cosmological parameter chains tailored to studies of H0: 3 constrained by WMAP data and 3 constrained by WMAP plus H0 data. In addition to the standard LCDM parameters, the chains sample the neutrino mass, the number of relativistic degrees of freedom, and the dark energy equation of state, respectively. These chains use version 4.1 of the WMAP likelihood, and the January 2010 version of CAMB, which includes RECFAST version 1.5.
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2010-11-19
WMAP TB, EE, and BB Power Spectra Released / Version
4.1The WMAP team has released TB, EE, and BB power spectra from the seven year data delivery as stand-alone files.
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2010-10-29
ACT Likelihood Software Delivered / Version
V2A1The ACT Collaboration has released the software they use to compute the likelihood of cosmological models using the 148 GHz data.
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2010-10-08
FIRAS Radial Beam Profile An average instantaneous FIRAS beam is tabulated at roughly 0.458 degree intervals.
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2010-10-08
WMAP Telemetry Timing In order to address persistent questions about telemetry timing, we have augmented the documentation on timing and pointing conventions in the WMAP data. The WMAP team is fully confident that science observations have been properly placed on the sky in all sky maps released to date.
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2010-10-08
The WMAP satellite has ended science observations
The WMAP satellite ended science observations on 20 August 2010. On 8 September 2010, WMAP departed L2 for a heliocentric orbit approximately 7% larger than the Earth's orbit, where it will remain indefinitely. The complete nine-year data set is now being processed and the final legacy data products will be released by 2012.
2010-09-29
Updated WMAP TT and TE Power Spectra / Version
4.1WMAP has released updated TT and TE power spectra computed using the recently delivered updated likelihood software.
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2010-06-10
WMAP Seven Year Sky Map Data in Image Format
The flight data sky maps from the WMAP seven year data release are now available in more traditional projection formats: Mollweide and Zenith Equal area. These files may be manipulated and displayed with standard astronomical display software such as DS9 and SOAimage.
2010-05-28
WMAP Likelihood Data Files / Version
4.1Version 4.1 contains one fix each to the TT and TE files that are released with the likelihood code and separately. There are no changes to the code itself.
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2010-05-27
WMAP Updated Reduced Resolution Sky Maps / Version
4.1The WMAP inverse covariance matrices and the multi-year, reduced resolution sky maps have been updated to incorporate a better handling of the "loss imbalance" uncertainty. The new co-added maps have better regularization of certain poorly-measured modes.
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2010-04-28
WMAP Simulated Sky Maps Released The WMAP team has released sky maps from the simulation used for the latest round of data analysis. Stokes I, Q, and U maps for each year and differencing assembly have been released, as well as foreground reduced Stokes I maps.
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2010-04-21
WMAP Explanatory Supplement Updated / Version 4.1
The WMAP Explanatory Supplement has been updated to clarify: 1) The corrections made to the bore sight vectors due to thermal variability in the spacecraft; 2) The path that telemetry data follows from the spacecraft to the data analysis facility; 3) The contents of the time-ordered data meta data table; specifically the time associated with each measurement.
2010-04-05
Updated Seven-Year WMAP Cosmological Interpretations paper / Version 2
References were added to the paper. The SZ section was expanded with more analysis. The discrepency between the KS and X-ray derived profiles has been resolved.
2010-02-12
The WMAP Seven-Year Data Release
The seven-year WMAP, including power spectra and the likelihood routine, temperature and polarization sky maps, raw and calibrated time-order data, and ancillary instrument data.
2010-01-25
High Resolution Microwave Simulations of the Full Sky
A collection of simulated full sky maps at several microwave frequencies showing different contributing emitters has been delivered to the LAMBDA site. Maps showing individual contributing sources have been supplied as well as maps combining different sources. A corresponding set of catalogs identifying sources has been supplied.
2009-10-01
WMAP IDL Software Update
A new release of the WMAP IDL Software has been released.
2009-10-01
WMAP Uncalibrated Time-Ordered Data FITS Header Correction It was discovered that the FITS headers reported the data in the uncalibrated TOD files to be in millikelvin. These files have been corrected to report that data to be in counts.
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2009-09-16
WMAP Beam Map Pixelization Characterization The 2.4 arcminute binning used in the beam maps filters some of the high frequency content. A transfer function is derived from an estimate of the symmetrized radial profile of the pixelization function. Both the transfer function and the radial profile have been provided.
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2009-07-20
Sloan Digital Sky Survey LRG Likelihood Software
A software package that computes parameter likelihoods for the Luminous Red Galaxies data form the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been released!
2009-07-13
WMAP Sky Map Data in Image Format / Version 1
Previously released sky maps in HEALPix format are now also available in more traditional projection formats: Mollweide and Zenith Equal Area. These files may be manipulated and displayed with standard astronomical display software such as DS9 and SAOImage.
2009-06-15
ACBAR 2008 Data
High-resolution CMB power spectrum and ancillary data from the complete ACBAR data set.
2009-06-03
WMAP Noise Level Table Correction for Foreground-Reduced Sky Maps
The table of noise levels, σ0, for the full-resolution, foreground-reduced maps were updated on 2 June 2009 to correct an error. The previously posted values were inadvertantly copied from the 3-year release.
2009-06-02
Skyviewer executable for Microsoft Windows / Version 1.0.0
The LAMBDA team has built skyviewer under Microsoft Windows and has released the executable image.
2009-03-12
WMAP Likelihood Software Optimization / Version
v3p2The performance of the WMAP Likelihood software was significantly improved by reordering nested DO loops.
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2009-03-05
Skyviewer Tool Major Release / Version 1.0.0
A new version of Skyviewer has been released. This version supports Qt4, and the user interface has been completely redesigned.
2009-02-06
WMAP Cosmological Parameters Table Update
The WMAP Cosmological Parameters Table has been updated with best-fit Cl spectra.
2009-02-03
MCMC Foreground Maps -- Shifted Spinning Dust Model WMAP galactic foreground model maps were delivered; these maps were generated using a pixel-based MCMC algorithm implemented with a shifted spinning dust fitting model.
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2008-11-19
MCMC Foreground Maps -- Steepening Synchrotron Model WMAP galactic foreground model maps were delivered; these maps were generated using a pixel-based MCMC algorithm implemented with a steepening synchrotron fitting model.
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2008-11-19
Astronomical Coordinates of HEALPix pixels
We supply galactic coordinate projection map files containing the astronomical coordinates of the pixel centers at several HEALPix resolutions and both HEALPix ordering schemes.
2008-11-06
CAMB Online Tool Update The CAMB Online interface was updated to support the September 2008 version of CAMB and its new parameters.
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2008-10-30
WMAP Likelihood Software Patch / Version
v3p1A user-supplied patch has been released that allows the data directory to be supplied through an operating system environment variable instead of being hard-coded into the software.
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2008-10-20
WMAP Loss Imbalance Templates Polarization templates (Q,U) that trace the effect of a small transmission imbalance between the A & B sides of the WMAP instrument. One per differencing assembly.
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2008-10-09
Corrected Singular Value Decompositions of WMAP Inverse Covariance Matrices New versions (v3p1) of the N
-1 SVD files have been delivered to LAMBDA. The decompositions were done on N
-1 matrices in Nobs units. Scaling to mK
-2 units has been applied to the eigenvalues. These files supersede the originally delivered versions (v3) in which the scaling to mK
-2 was erroneously applied to the eigenvectors.
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2008-10-02
WMAP Temperature Point Source Exclusion Mask A point source only exclusion mask for temperature maps has been delivered by the WMAP team.
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2008-09-09
WMAP Effective Frequency Calculator WMAP has supplied a web tool that calculates the effective frequency of each of its frequency bands given one or more spectral indices.
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2008-08-01
WMAP Worldwide Telescope Map Images
Microsoft has formatted a set of maps for their Worldwide Telescope 3D visualization application.
2008-07-30
WMAP "Science On a Sphere" Map Images
Sky map images formatted to be compatible with the NOAA "Science On A Sphere" 3D visualization system have been provided
2008-06-06
WMAP Google Earth Map Images
Sky map images formatted to be compatible with the Google Earth 3D visualization application have been provided
2008-06-06
WMAP Bandpass Frequency Response Tables Delivered The WMAP team has delivered frequency response tables for each detector in WMAP's twenty radiometers.
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2008-05-30
LAMBDA and HEASARC Merge
The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) and the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) have merged into a single organization that will use the name HEASARC. The merged archive will continue to provide all of the services currently being offered by the two archives, while better serving users interested in studies requiring both high energy and microwave data. Users will notice few immediate changes, but we will gradually fully integrate all the services of the archives.
2008-05-20
Updated WMAP Cosmological Parameters Table
The most recent Cosmological Parameters table has been updated with Markov chains for most of the model/dataset combinations reported.
2008-04-25
WMAP Chain Analysis Software
A WMAP modification of the CosmoMC getdist program has been released.
2008-04-25
MCMC Foreground Maps Galactic foreground model maps generated using a pixel-based MCMC algorithm, as described in Gold et al.
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2008-04-10
WMAP Cosmological Parameter Plotter / Version 1
This tool plots or tabulates cosmological parameter likelihoods for the different model & data set combinations found in the WMAP Cosmological Parameter Table. The user may select one or more model & data set combinations to plot simultaneously. Each selected parameter will be plotted in a separate panel.
2008-03-19
The WMAP Five-Year Data Release
The five-year WMAP data, including power spectra and the likelihood routine, temperature and polarization sky maps, raw and calibrated time-ordered data, and ancillary instrument data.
2008-03-05
Leiden/Argentine/Bohn (LAB) HI survey The LAB survey contains the final data release of observations of 21-cm emission from Galactic neutral hydrogen over the entire sky.
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2007-11-15
Updated WMAP Inverse Covariance Matrices A small effect due to transmission imbalance between the A side and the B side of the instrument has been projected out of the inverse variance matrices as described in Section 3.5.1 of Jarosik et. al. (2007). This marginalization was inadvertently omitted from the initial v2 release of these files, but it is small enough that it is unlikely to change any results obtained with the original matrices.
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2007-06-13
WMAP 3-Year Paper Figures The figures from the 3-year WMAP papers are now available in PNG format for use in talks.
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2007-03-22
Contributed Software Archive
An astro-ph-style archive that members of the community may use to share software packages.
2007-03-14
FIRAS Data in HEALPix Format The FIRAS data that formed the final COBE Project data release have been partially reprocessed to produce sky products in HEALPix format.
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2007-01-25
WMAP Best Fit Matter Power Spectra Matter power spectra have been supplied for the model/dataset combinations displayed in the WMAP Cosmological Parameter Table.
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2007-01-25
WMAP TB & EB Power Spectra Best estimates for the TB and EB power spectra of the CMB, unbinned for analysis.
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2007-01-12
skyviewer 0.2.4 Released
A problem with the Mollweide projection in skyviewer was fixed.
2007-01-10
Revised Three-Year WMAP Papers The three-year papers have been updated to reflect the versions in press at ApJ.
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2007-01-08
Updated Cosmological Parameter Table There are three revised entries and one new entry in the cosmlogical parameter table, in association with the revised three-year papers. On 12 January 2007, three of these chains were updated with additive constants as described in the Release Notes.
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2007-01-08
COBE DIRBE Zodiacal Light Prediction Software IDL software for calculating the zodiacal light predicted from the DIRBE team interplanetary dust model.
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2006-12-28
WMAP Likelihood Software / Version
2.2.2An update to the WMAP Likelihood code that incorporates a faster low-l TT likelihood module, suggested by Jon Sievers of CITA. Also includes fixes for some memory allocation and compiler-related problems.
Release Notes.
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2006-11-24
Low-l Likelihood Software Code and data from Eriksen et al. used to estimate the low-l TT likelihood using a Blackwell-Rao estimator in conjunction with pre-computed Gibbs samples.
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2006-11-02
WMAP Likelihood Software / Version
2.2.1An update to the WMAP Likelihood code that incorporates new capability to evaluate the low l TT likelihood, a revision to the point source amplitude and uncertainty, and numerous software enhancement.
Release Notes.
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2006-10-17
DMR Calibrated Individual Observations (CIO) The DMR CIO files contain the DMR 4-year time-ordered data in FITS format.
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2006-10-03
SYNFAST tied into the CAMB and CMBFAST Online tools
The HEALPix synfast application is now used in the CMBFAST and CAMB online tools to produce sky maps based upon spectra computed by these applications.
2006-08-24
The WMAP IDL Software Library Update / Version 2
IDL procedures to read the temperature/polarization WMAP skymaps and to read the second release time-ordered data were added and/or modified. A procedure to compute pointing positions in astronomical coordinates for the observations in a time-ordered data record was written.
2006-08-16
Additional CMB Polarization Masks More aggressive polarizations masks, labeled P04 and P02, are provided for researchers who wish to investigate the effects of more extensive foreground cuts.
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2006-07-27
Augmented Cosmological Parameter Table
The cosmological parameter table has been augmented with 3 additional models: non-flat CDM ("ocdm"), non-flat CDM with quintessence ("ocdm+wpert"), and flat CDM with a running spectral index and tensors ("lcdm+run+tens").
2006-07-12
Updated Cosmological Parameter Table
The Cosmological Parameter Table has been reorganized and updated with several new Markov chains, best-fit model power spectrum files and printable parameter tables. The new entries all carry the version string 'v2p1' (some of which were posted prior to this announcement). Results for non-flat models and CDM models with running plus tensors are forthcoming.
2006-06-14
EE & BB Power Spectra
WMAP EE and BB binned power spectrum data, which are plotted in Figure 25 of "Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Polarization Analysis," Page et al. (2006).
2006-05-05
WMAP ILC Region Definition Map / Version
Version 2.0Defines the sky coordinate boundaries of the 12 regions used in the generation of the WMAP Internal Linear Combination (ILC) Map.
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2006-04-17
Predicted SZ Power Spectrum
The angular power spectrum due to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, as predicted by Komatsu & Seljak (2002).
2006-03-21
The WMAP Three-Year Data Release
The three-year WMAP data, including power spectra and the likelihood routine, temperature and polarization sky maps, raw and calibrated time-ordered data, and ancillary instrument data.
2006-03-16
Skyviewer Update / Version 0.2.3
Skyviewer was updated to compile against libQGLViewer 2.1.1
2005-12-19
CAMB Online Interface
We have developed a web-based interface to the CAMB tool.
2005-12-02
QMAP Calibrated Sky Maps
Sky maps from both flights of the QMAP balloon experiment, including maps at 33 GHz (Ka band) and 41 GHz (Q band).
2005-11-18
QMASK Calibrated Sky Map and Power Spectrum Sky map and angular power spectrum obtained by combining data from the QMAP and Saskatoon experiments.
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2005-11-18
LILC Reduced-Foreground Map Reduced galaxy map produced by Eriksen et al. using a variant of the ILC algorithm that employs a Lagrange multiplier, hence LILC.
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2005-11-03
Simulated ILC maps An ensemble of simulated ILC map, transformed to harmonic space, produced by Eriksen et al. for use with error analyses of the real ILC map.
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2005-10-21
ARCHEOPS Experiment Results
Improved results from the ARCHEOPS Experiment have been added to the LAMBDA archive.
2005-10-17
WMAPViewer tool added to the CMB toolbox / Version 1.0
This is a web-based tool that allows the user to view a CMB sky map using a technology similar to that used on maps.google.com. Note: This tool has been removed due to incompatibility with modern web browsers.
2005-09-30
IRAS/ISSA plates IRAS diffuse emission data projected info HEALPix format.
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2005-09-20
COBE-FIRAS CMB Monopole Spectrum Spectrum of the CMB monopole with uncertainties.
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2005-09-01
SWAS Data Release 10 Includes all data taken in the five and a half years of the nominal science mission.
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2005-07-22
WMAP 1st-year Reduced-Foreground Maps WMAP 1st-year Reduced-Foreground Maps produced by Tegmark et al.
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2005-03-11
Skyviewer / Version 0.2.2
Skyviewer is an OpenGL based program to display HEALPix-based skymaps, saved in FITS format files.
2005-02-25
COBE/DMR 4 -year Sky Map in HEALPix DMR 4-year sky maps reprocessed from the time-ordered data into HEALPix tessellated sky maps.
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2005-02-11
CMBFast Online Update / Version 4.5.1
Corrected a problem with timeouts between the browser, server, and intervening firewall.
2005-01-07
WMAP Beam Radial Profiles / Version
Version 1.0New product; symmetrized radial beam profiles for each WMAP differencing assembly, as derived from first year data.
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2004-11-18
SWAS Data Release 9 Includes all data taken in the first four and a half years of the mission.
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2004-08-03
MAPVIEW "IDL Virtual Machine" Widget
Healpix FITS file display viewer, useable without an IDL license.
2004-08-02
WMAP IDL Library / Version 1.3
Include quaternion interpolation software, enhanced capabilities for MAPVIEW.
2004-08-02
VSA Experiment Results
The 2nd data release by the VSA experiment in February 2004 has been added to the LAMBDA archive. The new results incorporate the previous data releases.
2004-07-21
CMBFAST 4.5.1
Installed CMBFAST 4.5.1 as the backend to the online interface. Updated the online interface to support the changes in input parameters. Added tensor modes plots to the results page.
2004-04-08
SWAS Data Release 8 Includes all data taken in the first four years of the mission.
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2004-02-18
'Foreground Cleaned' I Maps The documentation was augmented to add a warning that the template sky maps used in the cleaning contain ringing artifacts around bright sources like the LMC.
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2004-01-09
VSA Experiment Results
Data released by the VSA experiment in December 2002 have been added to the LAMBDA archive.
2003-11-21
WMAP Simulated Noise Maps 110 sky maps containing simulated instrument noise for each WMAP differencing assembly.
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2003-11-21
WMAP Binned TT Power Spectrum / Version
Version 1.1Inserted two new columns documenting the lower and upper values of multipole moment 1 used to form each bin.
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2003-10-31
CBI Experiment Deep Field and Mosaic Results
Data obtained by the CBI Experiment in 2000 have been added to the LAMBDA archive.
2003-10-17
ARCHEOPS Experiment KS3 Results
Data obtained by the ARCHEOPS Experiment have been added to the LAMBDA archive.
2003-09-11
SWAS Data Release 7 Includes all data taken in the first three and a half years of the mission.
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2003-09-05
WMAP Temperature Correlation Function / Version
Version 1.0Two-point temperature correlation function computed from the WMAP ILC map.
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2003-08-19
ACBAR Band Powers and Window Functions
Data obtained by the ACBAR experiment at the South Pole in 2001-2 have been added to the LAMBDA archive.
2003-08-01
WMAP Composite Mask / Version
Version 1.0Several intensity masks bundled into one file. The point source mask is specifically broken out from the diffuse emission masks.
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2003-07-31
WMAP IDL Library / Version
Version 1.2Includes minor fixes to version 1.1, improved Windows compatibility, additional reprojection capability.
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2003-07-30
WMAP Point Source Catalog / Version
Version 1.1The initial release has been revised to include spectral index information and updated fluxes for four sources.
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2003-07-29
MAXIMA-1 Calibrated Sky Map and Derived CMB Products
Data obtained by the MAXIMA-1 balloon experiment in 1998 have been added to the LAMBDA archive.
2003-07-22
WMAP Theoretical LCDM Power Spectra, FITS format / Version
Version 1.0The theoretical LCDM power spectra already provided in ASCII format are now available in FITS format compatible with SYNFAST.
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2003-07-18
Composite HI column density map All-sky map derived from the Leiden/Dwingeloo survey combined with data from Dickey & Lockman.
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2003-07-16
Composite W(CO) map The composite map of Dame, Hartmann & Thaddeus (2001).
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2003-07-16
WMAP ILC Region Definition Map / Version
Version 1.0Defines the sky coordinate boundaries of the 12 regions used in the generation of the WMAP Internal Linear Combination (ILC) Map.
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2003-07-08
WMAP 'Foreground Cleaned' I Maps / Version
Version 1.0Q, V and W band I Maps used in the generation of the WMAP first-year CMB power spectrum.
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2003-06-26
COBE FIRAS Spectrum Browser
This tool permits browsing of the FIRAS data for preliminary investigations of localized sources.
2003-06-06
Rewritten Outreach section / Version 2
The publications lists in the Outreach section were rewritten to be more useful. The default list shows all publications submitted to astro-ph within a year; a second list is provided to show all tracked publications.
2003-05-22
COBE DIRBE Small Source Spectral Energy Distribution Browser
This tool permits browsing of the DIRBE data for preliminary investigations of potential point sources.
2003-05-20
LAMBDA Site Update
The site has been re-implemented using ColdFusion to enable dynamic page building. Page extensions have changed from .html to .html, which may require users to update some of their links.
2003-05-15
WMAP Theoretical LCDM Power Spectrum / Version
Version 1.0Selected theoretical power spectra fit to WMAP data in combination with other datasets.
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2003-04-16
SWAS Data Release 6 Includes all data taken in the first three years of the mission.
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2003-04-09
WMAP IDL Library / Version
Version 1.1Includes minor fixes to version 1.0, plus new routines to compute sky coordinates from quaternions.
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2003-03-19
WMAP Binned TE Power Spectrum / Version
Version 1.0New product; a binned version of the combined TE power spectrum, useful for plotting.
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2003-03-17
WMAP Cosmological Parameters Table Summary table of the best-fit cosmological parameters from the WMAP team.
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2003-03-11
WMAP Binned TT Power Spectrum / Version
Version 1.0New product; a binned version of the combined TT power spectrum, useful for plotting.
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2003-02-21
WMAP Combined TT Power Spectrum / Version
Version 1.1Cosmic variance portion of error in column 3 modified to reflect best-fit running index model. Added columns 4 and 5 to document contributions to total error from measurement errors and cosmic variance.
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2003-02-21
WMAP Likelihood Code / Version
Version 1.1Fixed a bug in code that reads in the off-diagonal elements of the TE covariance matrix. Users report that this bug had a minimal effect on likelihood analyses and does not warrant re-running of previous results.
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2003-02-21