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PDF Book: A book with the full contents can be found here and a pdf version updated weekly can be found here:File:P28 Explanatory Supplement v06Mar13.pdf.
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 (Dupac)
- The satellite
- The service module
- Thermal design(Mendes)
- HFI design, qualification, and performance (Lamarre/Pajot)
- LFI design, qualification, and performance(Gregorio)
- The telescope
- Others
- The service module
- Ground Segment and Operations
- Ground segment overview (Dupac)
- Contingencies
- Operational history
- Survey scanning and performance (Dupac)
- Thermal environment
- Radiation environment (Mendes)
- Pointing performance (Dupac)
- Data processing
- Data flow overview
- On-board processing
- MOC data transfer and storage
- HFI Data Processing (Bouchet)
- Pre-processing (Vibert)
- TOI processing (Desert)
- Detectors pointing and beams (Crill/Jones/Jaffe)
- Map-making (Perdereau)
- Spectral response (Spencer)
- Internal overall validation (Ganga)
- Power spectra (Hivon)
- Summary of HFI data characteristics (Bouchet)
- LFI data processing: Introduction (Zacchei)
- Pre-processing
- TOI processing (Mennella)
- Detector Pointing (Maris/Galeotta)
- Beams (Sandri/Villa/Rocha)
- Map-making (Keihanen)
- 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)
- Astrophysical component separation (Ashdown/Baccigalupi)
- CMB Power spectra and Planck likelihood code CLIK(Bouchet/Natoli)
- Simulations (TBC, bouchet)
- Scientific analyses products (bouchet)
- PSO processing (To be removed)
- Planck Legacy Archive(Dupac)
- Mission products
- Timelines: (Not in 1st Release)
- Frequency Maps: Types of maps • List of products • FITS file structure
- The RIMOs: Map-level data • Band transmissions • Beam Window Functions
- Effective Beams (Rocha)
- Catalogues: ERCSC • PCCS • SZ Catalogue
- Frequency maps angular power spectra (Zacheoi/Bouchet)
- Astrophysical component maps: CMB • Foregrounds • Dust opacity • CO emission
- Planck CMB spectrum and Likelihood Code (Bouchet/Natoli)
- Cosmological Parameters
- Specially processed maps: Lensing map
- Additional angular power spectra (SZ, CIB...)
- Scientific data used to generate Planck products
- Simulation data: The Planck Sky Model • The Planck Simulator • Products delivered
- Survey history data (Dupac) SHoudl this be here or in the next chapter??
- Satellite history data (Not in 1st release)
- Dates of observations
- Payload design, performance and calibration data
- Software utilities
- Unpack and display (Not in 1st release)
- Unit conversion and Color correction (DPC)
- Print and plot (Not in 1st release)
- Analysis (Not in 1st release)
- Format conversion (Not in 1st release)
- Appendix
- Glossary
- List of acronyms
- References
To be confirmed
Data Processing Center