The scheme that evolved into mangle began life in the delightful atmosphere of an Aspen Center for Physics workshop in 1985. The mathematics of harmonization and other aspects of the computation of angular integrals are written up in the Appendix of Hamilton (1993) ApJ 417, 19-35. The mathematics of balkanization and other features of mangle are described by Hamilton & Tegmark (2004), MNRAS 349, 115-128. In 2007, Molly Swanson, Max Tegmark, and Colin Hill updated mangle to quickly handle the latest generation of galaxy survey masks. The updates, including pixelization and the interface with HEALPix, are described in Swanson et al. (2008), MNRAS 387, 1391-1402.

Current Galaxy Surveys

• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Data Release 6: J. Adelman-McCarthy et al. (2008) ApJS 175, 297
• Data Release 5: J. Adelman-McCarthy et al. (2007) ApJS 172, 634
• Data Release 4: J. Adelman-McCarthy et al. (2006) ApJS 162, 38
• The New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog: provides SDSS masks and galaxy data in a convenient format.
• The 2dFGRS Galaxy Redshift Survey
• 100k Data Release: M. Colless et al. (2001) MNRAS 328, 1039
• Final Data Release: M. Colless et al. (2003) astro-ph/0306581
• The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
• 10k Catalogue: S. M. Croom, R. J. Smith, B. J. Boyle, T. Shanks, N. S. Loaring, L. Miller, & I. J. Lewis (2000) MNRAS 322, 29
• Final Catalogue: S. M. Croom, R. J. Smith, B. J. Boyle, T. Shanks, L. Miller, P. J. Outram, N. S. Loaring (2004) MNRAS 349, 1397
• The PSCz Catalogue
• W. Saunders et al. (2000) MNRAS 317, 55
• DEEP2 Redshift Survey
• UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)
• Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)

Ongoing and Future Galaxy Surveys

• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey - Deep (CFHTLS-Deep)
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey - Wide (CFHTLS-Wide)
• Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey (SWIRE)
• Fibre Multi Object Spectrograph (FMOS)
• Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)
• Dark Energy Survey
• WiggleZ Survey with the AAOmega Spectrograph
• VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS)
• VST and VISTA surveys
• Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)
• Hyper Suprime Cam on the Subaru Telescope
• Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrograph (WFMOS)
• Pan-STARRS
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

Other Useful Tools

• HEALPix: K. M. Gorski, B. D. Wandelt, F. K. Hansen, E. Hivon, A. J. Banday (1998) The HEALPix Primer.
• SDSSPix
• GESTALT Footprint Server
• Original mangle web page

Mangle Papers

• A. J. S. Hamilton (1993) ApJ 417, 19-35.
• A. J. S. Hamilton & M. Tegmark (2004) A scheme to deal accurately and efficiently with complex angular masks in galaxy surveys, MNRAS 349, 115-128 (astro-ph/0306324).
• M. E. C. Swanson, M. Tegmark, A. J. S. Hamilton, & J. Colin Hill (2007) Methods for rapidly processing angular masks of next-generation galaxy surveys, MNRAS 387, 1391-1402 (arXiv:0711.4352).

Mangle Development Team

• Molly Swanson, MIT: mollyswanson at alum dot mit dot edu
• Prof. Max Tegmark, MIT: tegmark at mit dot edu
• Prof. Andrew Hamilton, Colorado/JILA: Andrew dot Hamilton at colorado dot edu
• Colin Hill, MIT: c_hill at alum dot mit dot edu