plates, all-sky maps

In the morning, Malyshev (Stanford) and I discussed next-generation projects for modeling all-sky maps from WMAP, FERMI, and etc. using data-driven models like HMF. We also talked about priors as regularizers for problems with large numbers of parameters, and the point that if we could model the point sources better, we would do a better job on the diffuse emission. That is, right now Malyshev cuts out the point sources, but those are the detected point sources; his model doesn't take into account the fainter sources too low in S/N to be confidently identified. In the afternoon, I worked on making a first set of trial plates for my Atlas.