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Explanatory supplement[edit]
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 (Dupac)
- The satellite
- Overview (Leonardi)
- The service module (Leonardi)
- Common cryogenics (Mendes)
- Instruments
- HFI design, qualification, and performance (Lamarre/Pajot)
- LFI design, qualification, and performance(Gregorio)
- The telescope (Leonardi)
- Others
- The standard radiation environment monitor (Mendes)
- The fiber optic gyro unit (Leonardi)
- Ground Segment and Operations
- Ground segment overview (Dupac)
- Contingencies (Leonardi)
- Operational history (Leonardi)
- Survey scanning and performance (Dupac)
- Thermal environment (Leonardi)
- Radiation environment (Mendes)
- Pointing performance (Dupac)
- Data processing
- Data flow overview (Leonardi)
- On-board processing
- MOC processing (Leonardi)
- HFI Data Processing (Bouchet)
- Pre-processing (Vibert)
- TOI processing (Desert)
- Detectors pointing & beam (Crill/Jones/Jaffe)
- Map-making (Perdereau)
- Spectral response (Spencer)
- Internal overall validation (Ganga)
- Power spectra (Bouchet)
- Summary of HFI data characteristics & the RIMO content (Bouchet)
- LFI data processing: Introduction (Zacchei)
- Pre-processing (Frailis)
- TOI processing (Mennella)
- To be completed
- ADC Correction (Galeotta/Watson)
- Spikes Removal (Tavagnacco)
- Gaps Filling (Galeotta/Polenta)
- Gain Modulation Factor
- Diode Combination
- Planet Flagging
- Photometric calibration (Galeotta)
- Noise estimation (Maino)
- Detector Pointing (Maris/Galeotta)
- Beams (Sandri/Villa)
- Map-making (Keihanen)
- Frequency Maps (Elina Keihanen)
- Noise Covariance Matrix (Anna-Stiina Suur-Uski)
- Half-ring jackknife Noise Maps (Jussi Valiviita)
- Noise Montecarlo Simulation (Hannu Kurki-Suonio)
- LFI systematic effects uncertainties (Mennella)
- LFI internal overall validation (Maino)
- LFI specific L3 activities: masks, MCQA, etc
- Summary of LFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
- HFI/LFI joint data processing
- Compact Source catalogues (Ashdown/Nuevo/Caniego)
- CMB map cleaning from Foreground emissions (Ashdown/Baccigalupi)
- CMB Power spectra and Planck likelihood code CLIK(Bouchet/Natoli)
- Simulations (TBC, bouchet)
- Scientific analyses products (bouchet)
- Planck Legacy Archvie
- Overview (Dupac)
- Planck legacy archive contents
- Mission science products
- Overview
- Timelines (Not in 1st Release)
- Single detector maps (Not in 1st Release)
- Frequency Maps
- Mission science products
- The RIMO
- Overview
- Detector-level data (Not in 1st Release)
- Map-level data
- Band transmissions (Map-level only in 1st Release)
- Detector noise spectra
- Beam Window Functions
- The RIMO
European Space Agency
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