Planck early results. VI. The High Frequency Instrument data processing
Abstract
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 the first 295 days of Planck-HFI survey data. These maps provide an accurate rendition of the sky emission at 100, 143, 217, 353, 545 and 857 GHz with an angular resolution ranging from 9.9 to 4.4^2. The white noise level is around 1.5 {\mu}K degree or less in the 3 main CMB channels (100--217GHz). The photometric accuracy is better than 2% at frequencies between 100 and 353 GHz and around 7% at the two highest frequencies. The maps created by the HFI Data Processing Centre reach our goals in terms of sensitivity, resolution, and photometric accuracy. They are already sufficiently accurate and well-characterised to allow scientific analyses which are presented in an accompanying series of early papers. At this stage, HFI data appears to be of high quality and we expect that with further refinements of the data processing we should be able to achieve, or exceed, the science goals of the Planck project.
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@article{arxiv.1101.2048,
title = {Planck early results. VI. The High Frequency Instrument data processing},
author = {Planck HFI Core Team and P. A. R. Ade and N. Aghanim and R. Ansari and M. Arnaud and M. Ashdown and J. Aumont and A. J. Banday and M. Bartelmann and J. G. Bartlett and E. Battaner and K. Benabed and A. Benoît and J. -P. Bernard and M. Bersanelli and J. J. Bock and J. R. Bond and J. Borrill and F. R. Bouchet and F. Boulanger and T. Bradshaw and M. Bucher and J. -F. Cardoso and G. Castex and A. Catalano and A. Challinor and A. Chamballu and R. -R. Chary and X. Chen and C. Chiang and S. Church and D. L. Clements and J. -M. Colley and S. Colombi and F. Couchot and A. Coulais and C. Cressiot and B. P. Crill and M. Crook and P. de Bernardis and J. Delabrouille and J. -M. Delouis and F. -X. Désert and K. Dolag and H. Dole and O. Doré and M. Douspis and J. Dunkley and G. Efstathiou and C. Filliard and O. Forni and P. Fosalba and K. Ganga and M. Giard and D. Girard and Y. Giraud-Héraud and R. Gispert and K. M. Górski and S. Gratton and M. Griffin and G. Guyot and J. Haissinski and D. Harrison and G. Helou and S. Henrot-Versillé and C. Hernández-Monteagudo and S. R. Hildebrandt and R. Hills and E. Hivon and M. Hobson and W. A. Holmes and K. M. Huffenberger and A. H. Jaffe and W. C. Jones and J. Kaplan and R. Kneissl and L. Knox and M. Kunz and G. Lagache and J. -M. Lamarre and A. E. Lange and A. Lasenby and A. Lavabre and C. R. Lawrence and M. Le Jeune and C. Leroy and J. Lesgourgues and A. Lewis and J. F. Macías-Pérez and C. J. MacTavish and B. Maffei and N. Mandolesi and R. Mann and F. Marleau and D. J. Marshall and S. Masi and T. Matsumura and I. McAuley and P. McGehee and J. -B. Melin and C. Mercier and S. Mitra and M. -A. Miville-Deschênes and A. Moneti and L. Montier and D. Mortlock and A. Murphy and F. Nati and C. B. Netterfield and H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen and C. North and F. Noviello and D. Novikov and S. Osborne and F. Pajot and G. Patanchon and T. Peacocke and T. J. Pearson and O. Perdereau and L. Perotto and F. Piacentini and M. Piat and S. Plaszczynski and E. Pointecouteau and N. Ponthieu and G. Prézeau and S. Prunet and J. -L. Puget and W. T. Reach and M. Remazeilles and C. Renault and A. Riazuelo and I. Ristorcelli and G. Rocha and C. Rosset and G. Roudier and M. Rowan-Robinson and B. Rusholme and R. Saha and D. Santos and G. Savini and B. M. Schaefer and P. Shellard and L. Spencer and J. -L. Starck and V. Stolyarov and R. Stompor and R. Sudiwala and R. Sunyaev and D. Sutton and J. -F. Sygnet and J. A. Tauber and C. Thum and J. -P. Torre and F. Touze and M. Tristram and F. Van Leeuwen and L. Vibert and D. Vibert and B. D. Wandelt and S. D. M. White and H. Wiesemeyer and A. Woodcraft and V. Yurchenko and D. Yvon and A. Zacchei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2048},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Replaced by the accepted version for publication, as part of a package of papers describing first results of the Planck mission The paper with figures at full resolution and full color tables can also be downloaded from the ESA site http://www.rssd.esa.int/Planck