SPIRE Map-Making Test Report

TL;DR

This report assesses the current performance of SPIRE map-making on Herschel, providing insights and guidance for future improvements in the data reduction pipeline based on a comprehensive test campaign.

Contribution

It offers a detailed evaluation of SPIRE map-making quality and identifies areas for future pipeline development based on empirical test results.

Findings

Assessment of current SPIRE map-making performance

Identification of strengths and limitations in the data reduction process

Recommendations for future pipeline improvements

Abstract

The photometer section of SPIRE is one of the key instruments on board of Herschel. Its legacy depends very much on how well the scanmap observations that it carried out during the Herschel mission can be converted to high quality maps. In order to have a comprehensive assessment on the current status of SPIRE map-making, as well as to provide guidance for future development of the SPIRE scan-map data reduction pipeline, we carried out a test campaign on SPIRE map-making. In this report, we present results of the tests in this campaign.