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By Planck Collaboration
The Explanatory Supplement is a reference text to the public data delivered from the operations of the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite during its mission.
- The Planck mission
- Mission overview (PSO)
- The satellite (PSO)
- Overview (PSO)
- The service module (PSO)
- Cryogenics (PSO)
- Thermal Design (PSO)
- Passive cooling
- Sorption Cooler
- [math]^{4}[/math]He-JT cooler
- Dilution Cooler
- Qualification and performance
- Instruments
- HFI design, qualification, and performance
- LFI design, qualification, and performance
- The telescope (PSO)
- Others (PSO)
- The standard radiation environment monitor (PSO)
- The fiber optic gyro unit (PSO)
- Ground Segment and Operations (PSO)
- Ground segment overview (PSO)
- Contingencies (PSO)
- Operational history (PSO)
- Survey scanning and performance (PSO)
- Thermal environment (PSO)
- Radiation environment (PSO)
- Pointing performance (PSO)
- Data processing
- Data flow overview (PSO)
- On-board processing
- MOC processing (PSO)
- HFI Data Processing: Overview (Bouchet)
- Pre-processing (Vibert)
- Raw data ingestion
- Construction of the ToS
- Pointing interpolation (Benabed)
- TOI processing (Desert)
- To be completed
- Data Masking
- Deglitching (Patanchon)
- TOI noise estimation (Prunet)
- The Phase-Binned Rings
- The signal and noise estimator TOIs
- The total noise and the noise spectra
- Fitting the spectra
- The final noise parameters
- Detector pointing & beams (& errors) (Jaffe)
- Detector pointing
- Scanning beams
- Effective beams
- Map-making (Perdereau)
- To be completed
- Flux calibration
- Noise properties (Nhit, rms, NCVM, Delta-HR...)
- Zodi correction (Ganga)
- Map Validation Tests
- HFI internal overall validation (Ganga)
- Yardstick simulations (including a Sisyphe summary of what can be neglected) (Montier)
- Power Spectra (Bouchet)
- Detector sets
- per frequency channel
- HFI specific L3 activities: masks, MCQA, etc [These elements should not be stand-alone. They should appear in the associated sections (compsep, power spectrum analysis, etc. -- Ken]]
- power spectra: intra-frequency checks & aggregation, HFI specific checks, ...)
- Sandbox, ie stuff in need to be placed somewhere (eg in HFI performance)
- Band pass information
- Polarisation information
- Sisyphe overview (mostly pointers to other pages)
- Summary of HFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
- LFI data processing: Introduction (Zacchei)
- Pre-processing (Frailis)
- From Packets to Raw ToI
- On-Board Time reconstruction
- TOI processing (Mennella)
- To be completed
- Spikes Removal
- Gain Modulation Factor
- Diode Combination
- Noise estimation (Maino)
- Fitting the spectra
- The final noise parameters
- Detector Pointing (Maris/Galeotta)
- Wobble Angle
- Stellar Aberration
- Beams (Sandri/Villa)
- Main Beams and Focal Plane calibration
- Effective beams
- Map-making (Keihanen)
- To be completed
- Noise Covariance Matrix (Anna-Stiina Suur-Uski)
- Half-ring jackknife Noise Maps (Valiivita)
- Noise Montecarlo Simulation (Hannu Kurki-Suonio)
- LFI internal overall validation (Maino)
- LFI specific L3 activities: masks, MCQA, etc
- power spectra: intra-frequency checks & aggregation, LFI specific checks, ...)
- Band pass information
- Polarisation information
- Summary of LFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
- HFI/LFI Joint data processing
- Catalogues: Planck CCS
- Per frequency
- Sunyaev-Zeldovich
- Component separation
- CMB cleaning
- CO correction
- Synchrotron model
- Submm dust model
- Power spectra (the part not covered already in the HFI & LFI sections)
- Spectra (Consistency) tests
- Likelihood: CLIK
- Simulations (FFP)
- PSO processing (PSO)
- The Planck Legacy Archive (PSO)
- Planck legacy archive contents
- Mission science products
- Overview
- Timelines
- Semi-raw signal timelines
- Cleaned and calibrated signal timelines
- Pointing timelines
- FITS file structure
- Single detector maps
- Single detector maps
- FITS file structure
- Frequency Maps
- Introduction
- Types of maps
- List of products
- FITS file structure
- Astrophysical component maps
- CMB maps
- Synchrotron maps
- Free-free maps
- Dust maps
- Anomalous emission maps
- Other maps
- Angular power spectra
- Catalogues
- Likelihood Code
- Instrument information
- The RIMO
- FITS file structure
- Additional Science products
- Data products
- Specially processed maps
- Additional catalogues
- Additional angular power spectra
- The Planck Sky Model
- Ancillary data
- Scientific data used to generate Planck products
- Simulation data
- Mission history (PSO)
- Survey history data (PSO)
- Satellite history data (PSO)
- Payload design, performance and calibration data
- Instrument performance
- Telescope
- Thermal and cooler system
- Fiber optic gyro (PSO)
- Space radiation environment monitor (PSO)
- Software utilities
- Unpack and display
- Unit conversion
- Color correction
- Print and plot
- Analysis
- Format conversion
- Appendix
- Acronym list
- References