parameters.ini

[General]

freq_min: 1.		; minimum frequency of the experiment, in GHz

freq_width: 5.	; channel frequency width of the experiment, in GHz 

nchannels: 50		; number of channels

nside: 128  		; Healpix Nside

output_suffix: test	; suffix of the output files

[Synchrotron]

simulate: True

save_cube: True			; output this specific foreground cube together with the total foreground cube

model_template: haslam2014	; models available: i) haslam2014 - Haslam 408 MHz template given by Remazeilles et al. 2014

spectral_index_model: uniform	; models available: i) uniform - uniform variable spectral index (beta = -3.0); ii) mamd2008 - variable spectral index template given by Miville-Deschenes et al. 2008; iii) giardino2002 - variable spectral index template given by Giardino et al. 2002

curvature_index: 0.5		; frequency curvature parameter -- see Kogut et al. 2007

curvature_reference_freq: 0.23	; reference frequency for the curvature of the emission law, in GHz -- see Kogut et al. 2007

[FreeFree]

simulate: True

save_cube: True			; output this specific foreground cube together with the total foreground cube

model_template: dickinson2003	; models available: i) dickinson2003 - the free-free emission is calculated by correcting the H-alpha intensity as described in Dickinson et al. 2003

temp_electron: 7000.		; electron temperature, in K

[AME]

simulate: True

save_cube: True			; output this specific foreground cube together with the total foreground cube

model_template: planck_t353	; models available: i) planck_t353 - the AME emission is calculate by correcting the Planck tau_353 optical depth map as described in Planck Collaboration XXV et al. 2016

ame_ratio: 8.3e6		; ratio from dust to AME temp in muK -- it should be consistent with the template chosen above, the default value is from Planck Collaboration XXV et al. 2016, for the entire sky

ame_freq_in: 22.8		; frequency of the AME map where the ame_ratio is based on, in GHz

[ThermalDust]

simulate: True

save_cube: True			; output this specific foreground cube together with the total foreground cube

model_template: gnilc_353 	; models available: i) gnilc_t353 - Remazeilles 353 GHz template given in Planck Collaborations XLVIII et al. 2016

spectral_index_model: gnilc_353   ; models available: i) gnilc_t353 - Remazeilles 353 GHz variable spectral index given in Planck Collaborations XLVIII et al. 2016

temp_model: gnilc_353 		  ; models available: i) gnilc_t353 - Remazeilles 353 GHz dust temperature given in Planck Collaborations XLVIII et al. 2016

[PointSources]

simulate: True

save_cube: True			; output this specific foreground cube together with the total foreground cube

model_source_count: battye2013	; models available: i) battye2103 - source count model at 1.4 GHz as compiled in Battye et al 2013.

max_flux_poisson_cl: 0.01 	; maximum flux for the Poisson angular power spectrum, in Jy - for higher fluxes than this value, we sample directly from the dn_ds distribution because the point sources are no longer Gaussian.

max_flux_point_sources: 1.0 	; maximum flux, in Jy

spectral_index: -2.7 		; mean of the spectral index of the point source frequency distribution; the spectral index values are assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution and the frequency scaling is a power-law

spectral_index_std: 0.2 	; standard deviation of the spectral index of the point source frequency distribution; the spectral index values are assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution and the frequency scaling is a power-law

add_clustering: True 		; include clustering distribution -- see Battye et al. 2013

[CMB]

simulate: True

save_cube: True			; output this specific foreground cube together with the total foreground cube

cmb_model: standard 		; models available: i) standard -- LCDM parameters as given by Planck 15 -- see Planck Collaboration XIII et al. 2016.