Data in HEALPix format
- The Planck satellite full sky maps, observed at 30 to 857 GHz with unprecedented accuracy, and their decomposition in cosmological and astrophysical components are available in HEALPix format from ESA Planck Legacy Archive, and NASA Infrared Science Archive
- The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite data, see WMAP Technical Information
- Unofficial low-resolution WISE 12 micron full-sky dust maps
- SDSS DR8 Depth maps
- The COBE data, including DMR and FIRAS
- The Extended Sky Emission Repository of CADE which includes COBE/DIRBE and many other surveys
- The radio and infrared foregrounds maps including CO, Dust, Synchrotron, H-alpha and HI, as well as IRAS maps
- The Schlegel, Finkbeiner, and Davis (astro-ph/9710327, ApJ. 500, p.525), combined COBE/DIRBE-IRAS/SISSA dust emission map
- An extensive list of past, current and future CMB or SZ experiments and data availability on Lambda web site
Applications related to HEALPix
- The CMBFAST, CAMB and CLASS softwares can be used for the computation of the theoretical spectra of CMB anisotropy. The HEALPix synfast program reads in the output of these applications to allow one to generate random realizations of the observable CMB sky
- The LensPix software can be used to simulate lensed polarized CMB maps in HEALPix format using MPI
- The Planck Sky Model (PSM) and Python Sky Model (PySM) to simulate the IR and submm sky
- Generation of CMB data streams and maps: Planck LevelS pipeline and TOAST
- FLASK: Generation of lognormal or Gaussian correlated fields on the sphere
- GALPROP: Numerical code for calculating the propagation of relativistic charged particles and the diffuse emissions they produce (now compatible with HEALPix 3.11 and newer)
- CLUMPY: Computation of photon fluxes from dark matter annihilation or decay in galaxy haloes
- WebSky Extragalactic CMB Mocks: Consistent simulations of CMB lensing, (thermal and kinetic) SZ and CIB available as HEALPix FITS files
- Visualization tools supporting HEALPix maps in FITS format: Aladin Sky Atlas (which can overlay any astronomical map or catalog) and SkyViewer
- HEALPix based Hierarchical Progressive Surveys (HiPS) mechanism to access, visualize and browse images, catalogues and cube data
- ESA Sky to search, retrieve, explore and visualize the entire sky as observed by ESA (and other) astronomy missions (help desk)
- Montage Astronomical Image Mosaic Engine: to stitch and reproject astronomical images, including those in HEALPix format
- Healpy: python wrapper to HEALPix (now included in HEALPix package)
- mhealpy: a python wrapper around Healpy for multi-resolution datasets
- S2Hat: Scalable Spherical Harmonics transforms
- PolSPICE: Temperature+Polarization angular power spectrum extraction tool dealing with the effects of cut-sky, beam smoothing, noise contamination...
- NaMaster: Power spectrum extraction using MASTER approach, on curved sky and flat sky.
- DisPerSE: Automatic identification of persistent structures in 2D & 3D
- Wavelets on the Sphere: iSAP, MRS, S2LET, spherelib (previously SphereLab)
- FLINTS: interpolation algorithm of fields sampled on a sphere
- Codes related to HEALPix (ascl:1107.018) in Astrophysics Source Code Library.
HEALPix in the literature
Published articles using HEALPix:
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First HEALPix paper: K.M. Górski et al., 2005, ApJ, 622, p759
(among the 10 most cited astronomical articles published in 2005) - HEALPix on INSPIRE (High Energy Physics & Cosmology), ADS (Astrophysics), Scopus (requires an account) and Google Scholar (Multidisciplinary)
Misc
- Wikipedia Page on HEALPix
- HEALPix on BlackDuck (previously Ohloh)
- Some news, images, videos, books, related to HEALPix according to Google