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Explanatory supplement
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)
- Cryogenics (Mendes)
- Thermal Design (Mendes)
- Passive cooling
- Sorption Cooler
- He-JT cooler
- Dilution Cooler
- Qualification and performance
- Instruments
- 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: Overview (Bouchet)
- Pre-processing (Vibert)
- TOI processing (Desert)
- Detector pointing & beams (& errors) (Jaffe)
- Map-making (Perdereau)
- HFI internal overall validation (Ganga)
- Power Spectra (Bouchet)
- 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]]
- Sandbox, ie stuff in need to be placed somewhere (eg in HFI performance)
- Summary of HFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
- LFI data processing: Introduction (Zacchei)
- Pre-processing (Frailis)
- TOI processing (Mennella)
- Detector Pointing (Maris/Galeotta)
- Beams (Sandri/Villa)
- 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
- Summary of LFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
- HFI/LFI Joint data processing
- PSO processing (Mendes)
- The Planck Legacy Archive (Dupac)
- Planck legacy archive contents
- Mission science products
- Additional Science products
- Mission history
- Survey history data (Dupac)
- Satellite history data (Dupac)
- Payload design, performance and calibration data
- Software utilities
- Appendix
- References