Likelihood for low ell Planck data (Commander)

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Teeraparb Chantavat2
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Likelihood for low ell Planck data (Commander)

Post by Teeraparb Chantavat2 » September 10 2022

Hi All,

I am curious if anyone here could answer my question.

I have had a look at commander_dx12_v3_2_29.clik/clik/lkl_0/_external/sigma.fits which I believe it contains the likelihood for lowl (2 < ell < 29). It contains an array of shape

3 x 249 x 1000

I believe the first axis is for TT, EE and BB and the second axis is for ells from 2 - 250. I believe the third axis is the tabulated g_ell(C_ell^theory) from

Equation 12 in Planck 2018 05 - CMB and likelihoods paper

https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936386

The data only contains the tabulated values of log likelihood for C_ell^theory by the the values of C_ell^theory itself. I am wondering if I could somehow find the value of C_ell^theory to match the values of the log likelihood in the file.

Best,
Teera

Teeraparb Chantavat2
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Re: Likelihood for low ell Planck data (Commander)

Post by Teeraparb Chantavat2 » September 11 2022

The data only contains the tabulated values of log likelihood for C_ell^theory by the the values of C_ell^theory itself.
The data only contains the tabulated values of log likelihood for C_ell^theory but not the the values of C_ell^theory itself.

Sorry for not proof read before.

Teera

Jordan Krywonos
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Re: Likelihood for low ell Planck data (Commander)

Post by Jordan Krywonos » October 26 2022

Hello,

I would like to follow-up on the first part of this question and confirm if this is indeed the correct description for the dimensions of this 3 x 249 x 1000 array? I have also been looking at this sigma.fits file and am unsure what each axis of this array corresponds to.

Thank you for your help,

Jordan

Eirik Gjerlow
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Re: Likelihood for low ell Planck data (Commander)

Post by Eirik Gjerlow » March 17 2023

Hey Teera and Jordan,

The first dimension, with 3 elements, correspond to the spline information required to recreated a gaussianized CL_TT given input CLs. I.e. this is only for temperature Cls, from l=2 to 250, and the last dimension are 1000 distinct points the be able to spline input cls to give the output gaussianized Cls.

Then, the gaussianized Cls output from this can be used to evaluate the gaussian likelihood given the mean and covariance matrix, which also is found in sigma.fits in the other extensions.

This was recently reimplemented in Cobaya: https://github.com/CobayaSampler/cobaya/blob/master/cobaya/likelihoods/planck_2018_lowl/TT_native.py

so have a look at this to see how it works.

Eirik

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