The microwave sky after one year of Planck operations
Abstract
The ESA Planck satellite, launched on May 14th, 2009, is the third generation space mission dedicated to the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the first light in the Universe. Planck observes the full sky in nine frequency bands from 30 to 857 GHz and is designed to measure the CMB anisotropies with an unprecedented combination of sensitivity, angular resolution and control of systematic effects. In this presentation we summarise the Planck instruments performance and discuss the main scientific results obtained after one year of operations in the fields of galactic and extragalactic astrophysics.
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@article{arxiv.1110.2051,
title = {The microwave sky after one year of Planck operations},
author = {Aniello Mennella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.2051},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Invited presentation at the 13th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics and Detectors for Physics Applications (Villa Olmo, Como 3-7 October 2011)