ForecastingStep1

Checking forecasting outputs

This should be run for the test case for S4+Planck. This is T/E/B/kappa. No clusters or BAO at this point (can be posted in other entries though). Settings described here and here:

• S4 = single channel (e.g. 150 GHz) at 1 uK/amin in T and 1.4uK/amin in P, 3 arcmin resolution.
• White noise, no FG inflation

• S4 T/E/B/k over 40% of sky, 30<ell < lmax
• Planck TT/TE/EE from 30<l<2500 over additional 20% of sky. Can use these 'Planck-pol' specs for noise:File:Planck pol.pdf
• Planck TT at l<30 over 80% of sky
• Tau prior 0.06+-0.01

• lmax(TT)=3000 unless explicit foreground cleaning is done in code for kSZ etc
• lmax(TE,EE)=5000 unless explicit foreground cleaning done in code
• kk reconstructed from 30<l<lmax using MV estimate

• quadratic estimator for lensing, ideally with iterative delensing
• Gaussian likelihood neglecting T/E/k covariance is ok, but non-Gaussian better
• non-linear power spectrum for kk, e.g. ok to use halofit in CAMB
• if easy to do, use pivot k=0.05

• don't need to use same fiducial, but useful to note what you have used.

Forecast parameters for LCDM (add columns if your code spits out different parameters e.g. h, sigma8)

	obh2	och2	theta	10^9 As	ns	tau
Stephen/Josquin
Alex/Joel/Dan
Mat/Neelima/Nam
Jo/Erminia/Danielle	0.0222± 0.00003	0.1197±0.00062	1.0459±0.00009	2.20±0.021	0.9655±0.0020	0.06±0.0058
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Forecast parameters for LCDM+mnu (add columns if your code spits out different parameters e.g. h, sigma8)

	obh2	och2	theta	10^9 As	ns	tau	mnu (meV)
Stephen/Josquin
Alex/Joel/Dan
Mat/Neelima/Nam
Jo/Erminia/Danielle	0.0222± 0.00003	0.1197±0.00077	1.046±0.00011	2.20±0.036	0.9655±0.0022	0.06±0.0084	60±68
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Notes

• From Jo: got these errors for Planck-alone for LCDM: 0.00017, 0.0014, 0.00047, 0.039, 0.004, 0.01.