Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
Cardiff University · Université Paris-Sud · +127 more institutions
Abstract
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14 May 2009 and has been scanning the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously since 12 August 2009. In March 2013, ESA and the Planck Collaboration released the initial cosmology products based on the first 15.5 months of Planck data, along with a set of scientific and technical papers and a web-based explanatory supplement. This paper gives an overview of the mission and its performance, the processing, analysis, and characteristics of the data, the scientific results, and the science data products and papers in the release. The science products include maps of the cosmic…
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Cardiff University
- NAN. Aghanim
Université Paris-Sud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
- MIM. I. R. Alves
Université Paris-Sud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
- CAC. Armitage-Caplan
University of Oxford
- MAM. Arnaud
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Délégation Paris 7, Université Paris Cité, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation, CEA Paris-Saclay, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
Topics & keywords
- Planck
- Physics
- Cosmic microwave background
- CMB cold spot
- Astrophysics
- Cosmology
- Hubble's law
- Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect