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

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 (| BBPS 2012 and | Battaglia 2016)
• So far the current CIB maps designed only for cross correlation work with clusters. The SED and profiles come from |Planck CIB model
• The current optical HOD model is analogous to the one used for |BOSS mocks

+ Figures [[File:[[[image tSZ_panels.png width="1000px"]]]]] Figure 1 - 504 full-sky Compton y-maps generated with our simulation pipeline Figure 2 - Montage of a single multi-wavelength realization of the extragalactic sky

+ Data files On Nersc?