FAST AND OPTIMAL COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND LENSING USING STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION ON THE SPHERE
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 (United States)
We describe an accurate and fast pixel-based statistical method to interpolate fields of arbitrary spin on the sphere. We call this method Fast and Lean Interpolation on the Sphere (FLINTS). The method predicts the optimal interpolated values based on the theory of isotropic Gaussian random fields and provides an accurate error estimate at no additional cost. We use this method to compute lensed cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps precisely and quickly, achieving a relative precision of 0.02% at a HEALPIX resolution of N {sub side} = 4096, for a bandlimit of l{sub max}= 4096 in the same time it takes to simulate the original, unlensed CMB map. The method is suitable for efficient, distributed memory parallelization. The power spectra of our lensed maps are accurate to better than 0.5% at l= 3000 for the temperature, the E and B modes of the polarization. As expected theoretically, we demonstrate that, on realistic cases, this method is between two and three orders of magnitude more precise than other known interpolation methods for the same computational cost.
- OSTI ID:
- 21454936
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Vol. 191, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/191/1/32; ISSN 0067-0049
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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