XFaster Documentation

XFaster is a power spectrum and parameter likelihood estimator for cosmic microwave background (CMB) data sets. It’s a hybrid of two types of estimators: pseudo-\(C_\ell\) Monte Carlo estimators, like MASTER/PolSpice, and iterative quadratic estimators. The full description of the pipeline, including the math and assumptions used, are in the pipeline paper. These docs focus on the code implementation.

The basics of running the code are given in Quick Start. More details of the math can be found in Algorithm, and a detailed review of the code is given in Tutorial.

Contents:

• Quick Start
  • Dependencies
  • Installation
  • Example Script
  • Setting up your data
  • Running the code
  • Reading the outputs
• Algorithm
• Tutorial
  • The main ingredients of the XFaster code
  • Specifying what data to use
  • Step by step through the functions called in xfaster_exec
• API Reference
  • batch_tools
  • parse_tools
  • xfaster_class
  • xfaster_exec
  • spec_tools

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page