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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
- The satellite
- Ground Segment and Operations
- Data processing
- Mission products
- Time ordered data
- Sky temperature maps
- The instrument model
- Effective beams
- Catalogues: PCCS • SZ • ERCSC
- Sky temperature power spectra
- CMB and astrophysical component maps
- CMB spectrum and likelihood code
- Cosmological parameters
- Additional maps: Lensing map
- Scientific data used to generate Planck products
- Simulation data
- Dates of observations
- Software utilities
- Survey and satellite data
- Appendix
- Glossary
- List of acronyms