[ascl:1101.009]
MasQU: Finite Differences on Masked Irregular Stokes Q,U Grids
MasQU extracts polarization information in the CMB by reducing contamination from so-called "ambiguous modes" on a masked sky, which contain leakage from the larger E-mode signal and utilizing derivative operators on the real-space Stokes Q and U parameters. In particular, the package can perform finite differences on masked, irregular grids and is applied to a semi-regular spherical pixellization, the HEALPix grid. The formalism reduces to the known finite-difference solutions in the case of a regular grid. On a masked sphere, the software represents a considerable reduction in B-mode noise from limited sky coverage.
- Code site:
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/masqu/
- Used in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011PhRvD..83b3503B
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1101.0520B
- Bibcode:
- 2011ascl.soft01009B