View source for Wish List and Existing Capability for Simulated Maps

'''This page is meant to be a clearinghouse for requirements (desires?) for simulated maps and existing resources/capabilities for producing such maps'''

== Created, 18Oct16 ==

= Wish List =

* Full-sky Healpix-pixelized maps at NSIDE=8192 (~0.4 arcmin resolution)
* At least 8 frequency bands
* Lensed CMB, Unlensed CMB, Kappa maps
* Lots more...

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= Existing Resources / Capabilities =

==Peak Patches Extragalactic Sky Model==

''Nov 16 2016 CITA group (Dick, Marcelo, & George ) + Nick''

We have developed a massively parallel LSS simulation pipeline for forecasting 
and application to upcoming experiments and surveys such as CMB-S4, DESI, 
and LSST. 

The pipeline produces light cone halo catalogs and full-sky simulated 
observations suitable for data covariance determination by direct Monte Carlo, 
and includes beyond standard model (BSM) effects such as non-Gaussian initial 
conditions and evolving dark energy and undergoing continuous development for BSM effects.

'''Current data products and capabilities'''

''500 simulated full sky light cones (Healpix format)''

''Full sky maps:''

* Cluster/Group tSZ Effect (500 Compton y-maps)
* Cluster/Group kSZ Effect (500 dT/T maps)

''Can be simulated given specs (e.g. nu, flux cut, cosmo parameters):''

* Optical galaxy redshift catalogs for a given survey HOD
* CIB maps at 100-2000 GHz for various models in literature
* Light cones with specified resolution and survey geometries

''Performance and computational resources''

* Full-sky catalogs take ~10 min each on 128 Scinet-GPC nodes, or ~20 node-hours
* Full suite of 500 runs took ~1e4 node-hours, or ~2 days wall-clock 
* Map projection is a negligible fraction of computational cost

''Models''

* The tSZ and kSZ maps use halo profiles obtained from hydrodynamical simulations ([http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...758...75B BBPS 2012] and [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JCAP...08..058B  Battaglia 2016])
* So far the current CIB maps designed only for cross correlation work with clusters. The SED and profiles come from [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...571A..30P Planck CIB model]
* The current optical HOD model is analogous to the one used for [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.428.1036M BOSS mocks ]

'''Figures'''
[[File:tSZ_panels.png]]
Figure 1 - 504 full-sky Compton y-maps generated with our simulation pipeline
[[File:All_sky_multi.png]]
Figure 2 - Montage of a single multi-wavelength realization of the extragalactic sky

'''Data files''' 
On Nersc?