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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Discretisation of Functions on the Sphere for High Resolution Applications: a Motivation for HEALPix
• Geometric and Algebraic Properties of HEALPix
• The HEALPix Software Package
• HEALPix conventions
  • Angular power spectrum conventions
  • HEALPix and CMBFAST
  • Polarisation convention
    • Internal convention
    • Relation to previous releases
    • Relation with IAU convention
  • Spherical harmonic conventions
  
  
• Pixel window functions
• A Comment on the Random Number Generator
• Bibliography

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