Cosmological science enabled by Planck
Astrophysics
2009-08-18 v1
Abstract
Planck will be the first mission to map the entire cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky with mJy sensitivity and resolution better than 10'. The science enabled by such a mission spans many areas of astrophysics and cosmology. In particular it will lead to a revolution in our understanding of primary and secondary CMB anisotropies, the constraints on many key cosmological parameters will be improved by almost an order of magnitude (to sub-percent levels) and the shape and amplitude of the mass power spectrum at high redshift will be tightly constrained.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606643,
title = {Cosmological science enabled by Planck},
author = {Martin White},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606643},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures, proceedings of the UC Irvine conference on cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization anisotropies