Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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    Planck 2018 results. XII. Galactic astrophysics using polarized dust emission
    Observations of the submillimetre emission from Galactic dust, in both total intensity I and polarization, have received tremendous interest thanks to the...
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    Planck early results. I. The Planck mission
    The European Space Agency's Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009. Its...
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    Planck early results. II. The thermal performance of Planck
    The performance of the Planck instruments in space is enabled by their low operating temperatures, 20 K for LFI and 0.1 K for HFI, achieved through a...
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    Planck early results. III. First assessment of the Low Frequency Instrument in-flight performance
    The scientific performance of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) after one year of in-orbit operation is presented. We describe the main optical...
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    Planck early results. IV. First assessment of the High Frequency Instrument in-flight performance
    The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) is designed to measure the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic...
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    Planck early results. IX. XMM-Newton follow-up for validation of Planck cluster candidates
    We present the XMM-Newton follow-up for confirmation of Planck cluster candidates. Twenty-five candidates have been observed to date using snapshot (~10ks)...
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    Planck early results. V. The Low Frequency Instrument data processing
    We describe the processing of data from the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) used in production of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC). In...
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    Planck early results. VI. The High Frequency Instrument data processing
    We describe the processing of the 336 billion raw data samples from the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) which we performed to produce six temperature maps from...
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    Planck early results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalogue
    A brief description of the methodology of construction, contents and usage of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC), including the Early...