Planck Early Results: The Planck mission
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2016-11-26 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
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 performance is well in line with expectations, and it will continue to gather scientific data until the end of its cryogenic lifetime. We give an overview of the history of Planck in its first year of operations, and describe some of the key performance aspects of the satellite. This paper is part of a package submitted in conjunction with Planck's Early Release Compact Source Catalogue, the first data product based on Planck to be released publicly. The package describes the scientific performance of the Planck payload, and presents results on a variety of astrophysical topics related to the sources included in the Catalogue, as well as selected topics on diffuse emission.
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@article{arxiv.1101.2022,
title = {Planck Early Results: The Planck mission},
author = {Planck Collaboration and P. A. R. Ade and N. Aghanim and M. Arnaud and M. Ashdown and J. Aumont and C. Baccigalupi and M. Baker and A. Balbi and A. J. Banday and R. B. Barreiro and J. G. Bartlett and E. Battaner and K. Benabed and K. Bennett and A. Benoît and J. -P. Bernard and M. Bersanelli and R. Bhatia and J. J. Bock and A. Bonaldi and J. R. Bond and J. Borrill and F. R. Bouchet and T. Bradshaw and M. Bremer and M. Bucher and C. Burigana and R. C. Butler and P. Cabella and C. M. Cantalupo and B. Cappellini and J. -F. Cardoso and R. Carr and M. Casale and A. Catalano and L. Cayón and A. Challinor and A. Chamballu and J. Charra and R. -R. Chary and L. -Y Chiang and C. Chiang and P. R. Christensen and D. L. Clements and S. Colombi and F. Couchot and A. Coulais and B. P. Crill and G. Crone and M. Crook and F. Cuttaia and L. Danese and O. D'Arcangelo and R. D. Davies and R. J. Davis and P. de Bernardis and J. de Bruin and G. de Gasperis and A. de Rosa and G. de Zotti and J. Delabrouille and J. -M. Delouis and F. -X. Dèsert and J. Dick and C. Dickinson and K. Dolag and H. Dole and S. Donzelli and O. Dorè and U. Dörl and M. Douspis and X. Dupac and G. Efstathiou and T. A. Enfllin and H. K. Eriksen and F. Finelli and S. Foley and O. Forni and P. Fosalba and M. Frailis and E. Franceschi and M. Freschi and T. C. Gaier and S. Galeotta and J. Gallegos and B. Gandolfo and K. Ganga and M. Giard and G. Giardino and G. Gienger and Y. Giraud-Hèraud and J. González and J. González-Nuevo and K. M. Górski and S. Gratton and A. Gregorio and A. Gruppuso and G. Guyot and J. Haissinski and F. K. Hansen and D. Harrison and G. Helou and S. Henrot-Versillè and C. Hernández-Monteagudo and D. Herranz and S. R. Hildebrandt and E. Hivon and M. Hobson and W. A. Holmes and A. Hornstrup and W. Hovest and R. J. Hoyland and K. M. Huffenberger and A. H. Jaffe and T. Jagemann and W. C. Jones and J. J. Juillet and M. Juvela and P. Kangaslahti and E. Keihänen and R. Keskitalo and T. S. Kisner and R. Kneissl and L. Knox and M. Krassenburg and H. Kurki-Suonio and G. Lagache and A. Lähteenmäki and J. -M. Lamarre and A. E. Lange and A. Lasenby and R. J. Laureijs and C. R. Lawrence and S. Leach and J. P. Leahy and R. Leonardi and C. Leroy and P. B. Lilje and M. Linden-Vørnle and M. López-Caniego and S. Lowe and P. M. Lubin and J. F. Macìas-Pèrez and T. Maciaszek and C. J. MacTavish and B. Maffei and D. Maino and N. Mandolesi and R. Mann and M. Maris and E. Martìnez-González and S. Masi and M. Massardi and S. Matarrese and F. Matthai and P. Mazzotta and A. McDonald and P. McGehee and P. R. Meinhold and A. Melchiorri and J. -B. Melin and L. Mendes and A. Mennella and C. Mevi and R. Miniscalco and S. Mitra and M. -A. Miville-Deschínes and A. Moneti and L. Montier and G. Morgante and N. Morisset and D. Mortlock and D. Munshi and A. Murphy and P. Naselsky and P. Natoli and C. B. Netterfield and H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen and F. Noviello and D. Novikov and I. Novikov and I. J. O'Dwyer and I. Ortiz and S. Osborne and P. Osuna and C. A. Oxborrow and F. Pajot and R. Paladini and B. Partridge and F. Pasian and T. Passvogel and G. Patanchon and D. Pearson and T. J. Pearson and O. Perdereau and L. Perotto and F. Perrotta and F. Piacentini and M. Piat and E. Pierpaoli and S. Plaszczynski and P. Platania and E. Pointecouteau and G. Polenta and N. Ponthieu and L. Popa and T. Poutanen and G. Prèzeau and S. Prunet and J. -L. Puget and J. P. Rachen and W. T. Reach and R. Rebolo and M. Reinecke and J. -M. Reix and C. Renault and S. Ricciardi and T. Riller and I. Ristorcelli and G. Rocha and C. Rosset and M. Rowan-Robinson and J. A. Rubiñ-Martìn and B. Rusholme and E. Salerno and M. Sandri and D. Santos and G. Savini and B. M. Schaefer and D. Scott and M. D. Seiffert and P. Shellard and A. Simonetto and G. F. Smoot and C. Sozzi and J. -L. Starck and J. Sternberg and F. Stivoli and V. Stolyarov and R. Stompor and L. Stringhetti and R. Sudiwala and R. Sunyaev and J. -F. Sygnet and D. Tapiador and J. A. Tauber and D. Tavagnacco and D. Taylor and L. Terenzi and D. Texier and L. Toffolatti and M. Tomasi and J. -P. Torre and M. Tristram and J. Tuovinen and M. Türler and M. Tuttlebee and G. Umana and L. Valenziano and J. Valiviita and J. Varis and L. Vibert and P. Vielva and F. Villa and N. Vittorio and L. A. Wade and B. D. Wandelt and C. Watson and S. D. M. White and M. White and A. Wilkinson and D. Yvon and A. Zacchei and A. Zonca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2022},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
This is part of a package of Planck papers labelled in their titles as "Planck Early Results". The whole package can also be downloaded from http://www.rssd.esa.int/Planck. This paper was accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics on 31 May 2011