Bibcode
Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Armitage-Caplan, C.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartlett, J. G.; Battaner, E.; Benabed, K.; Benoît, A.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bobin, J.; Bock, J. J.; Bonaldi, A.; Bonavera, L.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Bridges, M.; Bucher, M.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Castex, G.; Catalano, A.; Challinor, A.; Chamballu, A.; Chary, R.-R.; Chen, X.; Chiang, H. C.; Chiang, L.-Y.; Christensen, P. R.; Church, S.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Couchot, F.; Coulais, A.; Crill, B. P.; Cruz, M.; Curto, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Rosa, A.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Delouis, J.-M.; Désert, F.-X.; Dickinson, C.; Diego, J. M.; Dobler, G.; Dole, H.; Donzelli, S.; Doré, O.; Douspis, M.; Dunkley, J.; Dupac, X.; Efstathiou, G.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; Falgarone, E.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Franceschi, E.; Galeotta, S.; Ganga, K.; Giard, M.; Giardino, G.; Giraud-Héraud, Y.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gratton, S.; Gregorio, A.; Gruppuso, A.; Hansen, F. K.; Hanson, D.; Harrison, D. L.; Helou, G.; Henrot-Versillé, S.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R.; Hivon, E.; Hobson, M.; Holmes, W. A.; Hornstrup, A. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 571, id.A12, 31 pp.
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2014
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Description
Planck has produced detailed all-sky observations over nine frequency
bands between 30 and 857 GHz. These observations allow robust
reconstruction of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB)
temperature fluctuations over nearly the full sky, as well as new
constraints on Galactic foregrounds, including thermal dust and line
emission from molecular carbon monoxide (CO). This paper describes the
component separation framework adopted by Planck for many cosmological
analyses, including CMB power spectrum determination and likelihood
construction on large angular scales, studies of primordial
non-Gaussianity and statistical isotropy, the integrated Sachs-Wolfe
effect, gravitational lensing, and searches for topological defects. We
test four foreground-cleaned CMB maps derived using qualitatively
different component separation algorithms. The quality of our
reconstructions is evaluated through detailed simulations and internal
comparisons, and shown through various tests to be internally consistent
and robust for CMB power spectrum and cosmological parameter estimation
up to ℓ = 2000. The parameter constraints on ΛCDM cosmologies
derived from these maps are consistent with those presented in the
cross-spectrum based Planck likelihood analysis. We choose two of the
CMB maps for specific scientific goals. We also present maps and
frequency spectra of the Galactic low-frequency, CO, and thermal dust
emission. The component maps are found to provide a faithful
representation of the sky, as evaluated by simulations, with the largest
bias seen in the CO component at 3%. For the low-frequency component,
the spectral index varies widely over the sky, ranging from about β
= -4 to - 2. Considering both morphology and prior knowledge of the low
frequencycomponents, the index map allows us to associate a steep
spectral index (β< -3.2) with strong anomalous microwave
emission, corresponding to a spinning dust spectrum peaking below 20
GHz, a flat index of β> -2.3 with strong free-free emission, and
intermediate values with synchrotron emission.
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Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background
The general goal of this project is to determine and characterize the spatial and spectral variations in the temperature and polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background in angular scales from several arcminutes to several degrees. The primordial matter density fluctuations which originated the structure in the matter distribution of the present
Rafael
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