Friday, 16 April 2010

cmb - Units of angular power spectrum

I am not sure whether this question might be better suited for crossvalidated or stackoverflow, but I will give it a try here:



I have a map of the full sky in in the healpix format, units are $rm MJy, sr^{-1}$ (definition of $rm Jy$ here). To compute the angular power spectrum i.e. the $C_l$, I use the function anafast from the healpy library.



Now, I think that the resulting $C_l$ have units of $(rm MJy,sr^{-1})^2, sr$, but I could not find anything on the units in the literature so far.



I'd very much appreciate any help regarding the units or links to familiarise myself further with this topic.

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