Make an Exposure Map

Author: Pragya Chawla

Below we provide a sample script for creating an exposure map from CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Data. This example uses the healpy package to project the exposure map onto the 2D plane and serves as an example to create both a high and low resolution exposure maps.

This utility is also provided through the CHIME/FRB Open Data python project. You can find the exposure data in Canfar here.

cfod
from cfod.analysis import exposure
fname = "exposure_int_20180828_20191001_transit_U_beam_FWHM-600_res_4s_0.86_arcmin.npz"
exposure.render(filepath=fname)

high res image

low res image

Creating an exposure map for both upper and lower transits
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import healpy as hp
from astropy.coordinates import SkyCoord
import astropy.units as u

fname_u = "exposure_int_20180828_20190702_transit_L_beam_FWHM-600_res_4s_0.86_arcmin.npz" #Upper Transit
fname_l = "exposure_int_20180828_20190702_transit_U_beam_FWHM-600_res_4s_0.86_arcmin.npz" #Lower Transit

with np.load(fname_u) as data:
    exposure = data["exposure"]

#setting parameters for map resolution 

# spatial
nside = 4096
npix = hp.nside2npix(nside)

# temporal
t_res = 4 

# Initializing a healpy map
hpxmap = np.zeros(npix, dtype=np.float) 
hpxmap[0:len(exposure)] += t_res * exposure/(3600.) #seconds to hours
hpxmap[hpxmap==0] = hp.UNSEEN #masking pixels with zero exposure

# Plotting
hp.mollview(hpxmap, coord=['C','G'], norm='log', unit="Hours")
# Check exposure time in hours for FRB 20121102A
coord = SkyCoord("05:31:58.70", "+33:08:52.5", frame='icrs', unit = u.deg)
print("Exposure (in hours): %.2f"%hpxmap[hp.ang2pix(nside, coord.ra.deg, coord.dec.deg,  lonlat=True)])


### Obtaining a lower resolution map ###
nside_out = 1024 
print("Resolution of new map : %.2f arcmin"%(hp.nside2resol(nside_out, arcmin=True)))
# Degrade healpix resolution to nside_out
hpxmap_dg = hp.ud_grade(hpxmap, nside_out) 
hp.mollview(hpxmap_dg, coord=['C','G'], norm='log', unit="Hours")
Hint
  • nside_out Varying nside_out parameter below will change the resolution. The nside parameter for the current map is 4096. You can switch to a lower value. However, do not use an nside lower than 512 as you would not be nyquist sampling the CHIME/FRB beam pattern in that case.
  • hpxmap Your HEALpix map will live here.
  • hpxmap_dg Your downgraded HEALpix map will live here.
  • hp.mollview Plots a Mollweide projection of your HEALpix map.