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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
- 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
- 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: Overview (includes Syste. approach phil. & iterative approach) (Bouchet)
- Pre-processing (Vibert)
- TOI processing (Desert)
- To be completed
- Data Masking
- Deglitching (Patanchon)
- TOI noise estimation (Prunet)
- Detector pointing & beams (& errors) (Crill/Jones/Jaffe)
- Map-making (Perdereau)
- To be completed
- Photometric calibration (Lagache/Perdereau)
- Noise properties (Nhit, rms, NCVM, Delta-HR...)
- Zodi correction (Ganga)
- Far Side Lobes correction (Ganga)
- CO corrections (Macias-Perez)
- Map Validation Tests
- Power Spectra (Bouchet)
- HFI internal overall validation (Ganga)
- Summary of HFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
- 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)
- 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
- Compact Source catalogues (Ashdown/Nuevo/Caniego)
- Component separation (Ashdown/Baccigalupi)
- CMB Power spectra and Planck likelihood code CLIK
- Simulations (FFP)
- Scientific analyses products
- 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
- Unpack and display (ESA)
- Unit conversion (DPC)
- Color correction (DPC)
- Print and plot (ESA)
- Analysis (ESA)
- Format conversion (ESA)
- Appendix
- References
European Space Agency
Data Processing Center