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Planck Explanatory Supplement (Public Release 1)

The latest Planck Legacy Explanatory Supplement (https://wiki.cosmos.esa.int/planck-legacy-archive) contains the descriptions of all the Planck products, including the 2013, 2015 and 2018 data releases. Previous instances of the Explanatory Supplement (2013 and 2015), including this one, are not fully up-to-date and will be discontinued during 2018.

Other versions of the ES: We provide a pdf version of the ES but you should be aware there are some limitations. Some figures in the online version do not appear in the pdf version and the references you can see in most pages will not appear in the pdf file.

Planck 2013 papers: A complete list of the Planck 2013 papers can be found here.

Explanatory supplement

By the Planck Collaboration

1. Introduction
   1. The Planck mission
   2. The spacecraft
   3. Ground Segment and Operations
   4. Survey scanning and performance
   5. PLA quick start guide
2. The Instruments
   1. HFI design, qualification, and performance
      1. Cryogenics
      2. Cold optics
      3. Detection chain
      4. Operations
      5. Performance summary
      6. Annexes
   2. LFI design, qualification, and performance
      1. Instrument description
      2. Ground tests
      3. In-flight calibration
      4. Performance summary
      5. Systematic effects
      6. The Sorption Cooler
      7. Annexes
3. Data processing
   1. HFI Data Processing
      1. Pre-processing
      2. TOI processing
      3. Beams
      4. Map-making
      5. Spectral response
      6. Internal overall validation
      7. Power spectra
      8. Summary of HFI data characteristics
   2. LFI data processing
      1. Pre-processing
      2. TOI processing
      3. Beams
      4. Map-making
      5. Systematic effects uncertainties
      6. Internal overall validation
      7. Power spectra
      8. Summary of LFI data characteristics
   3. HFI/LFI joint data processing
      1. Detector pointing
      2. Compact Source catalogues
      3. Astrophysical component separation
4. Mission products
   1. Time ordered data
   2. Sky temperature maps
   3. The instrument model
   4. Effective beams
   5. Catalogues: PCCS • SZ • ERCSC
   6. Sky temperature power spectra
   7. CMB and astrophysical component maps
   8. CMB spectrum and likelihood code
   9. Cosmological parameters
   10. Additional maps: Lensing map
   11. Scientific data used to generate Planck products
   12. Simulation data
   13. Dates of observations
5. Software utilities
   1. Unit conversion and Colour correction
6. Operational data
   1. Survey history data
   2. Satellite history data
   3. Planck operational state history
   4. Radiation environment data
7. Appendix
   1. Glossary
   2. List of acronyms