ROMA: a map-making algorithm for polarised CMB data sets

We present ROMA, a parallel code to produce joint optimal temperature and polarisation maps out of multidetector CMB observations. ROMA is a fast, accurate, and robust implementation of the iterative generalised least-squares approach to map-making. We benchmark ROMA on realistic simulated data from the last polarisation-sensitive flight of BOOMERanG.

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