Window Function for Noncircular Beam Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment
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- 10 October 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 560 (1) , 28-40
- https://doi.org/10.1086/322425
Abstract
We develop computationally rapid methods to compute the window function for a cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiment with a noncircular beam that scans over large angles on the sky. To concretely illustrate these methods we compute the window function for the Python V experiment, which scans over large angles on the sky with an elliptical Gaussian beam.Keywords
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