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Explanatory supplement

By Planck Collaboration

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.

1. The Planck mission (Dupac)
2. The satellite
   1. The service module
      1. Thermal design(Mendes)
   2. HFI design, qualification, and performance (Lamarre/Pajot)
      1. Overview
      2. Cryogenics
      3. Cold optics
      4. Detection chain
      5. Time response
      6. Operations
      7. Performance summary
      8. Annexes
   3. LFI design, qualification, and performance(Gregorio)
      1. Overview
      2. The LFI description
      3. LFI ground tests
      4. LFI In-flight calibration
      5. LFI Performance
      6. LFI Systematic effects
      7. The Sorption Cooler
      8. LFI Appendices
   4. The telescope
   5. Others
      1. The standard radiation environment monitor (Mendes)
      2. The fiber optic gyro unit
3. Ground Segment and Operations
   1. Ground segment overview (Dupac)
   2. Contingencies
   3. Operational history
   4. Survey scanning and performance (Dupac)
   5. Thermal environment
   6. Radiation environment (Mendes)
   7. Pointing performance (Dupac)
4. Data processing
   1. Data flow overview
   2. On-board processing
   3. MOC data transfer and storage
   4. HFI Data Processing (Bouchet)
      1. Pre-processing (Vibert)
      2. TOI processing (Desert)
      3. Detectors pointing and beams (Crill/Jones/Jaffe)
      4. Map-making (Perdereau)
      5. Spectral response (Spencer)
      6. Internal overall validation (Ganga)
      7. Power spectra (Hivon)
      8. Summary of HFI data characteristics (Bouchet)
   5. LFI data processing: Introduction (Zacchei)
      1. 1. Overview
         2. The LFI scientific telemetry
         3. From packets to raw TOIs
         4. On-board time reconstruction -->
      2. TOI processing (Mennella)
         1. ADC Correction (Galeotta/Watson)
         2. Spikes Removal (Tavagnacco)
         3. Gaps Filling (Galeotta/Polenta)
         4. Gain Modulation Factor
         5. Diode Combination
         6. Planet Flagging
         7. Photometric calibration (Galeotta)
         8. Noise estimation (Maino) -->
            1. Operations
            2. Fitting Pipeline
            3. The final noise parameters -->
      3. Detector Pointing (Maris/Galeotta)
      4. Beams (Sandri/Villa/Rocha)
         1. Effective beams (Rocha) -->
      5. Map-making (Keihanen)
         1. Noise Covariance Matrix (Anna-Stiina Suur-Uski)
         2. Half-ring jackknife Noise Maps (Jussi Valiviita)
         3. Noise Montecarlo Simulation (Hannu Kurki-Suonio) -->
      6. LFI systematic effects uncertainties (Mennella)
      7. LFI internal overall validation (Maino)
      8. LFI specific L3 activities: masks, MCQA, etc
      9. Summary of LFI data characteristics & the RIMO content
   6. HFI/LFI joint data processing
      1. Compact Source catalogues (Ashdown/Nuevo/Caniego)
      2. CMB map cleaning from foreground emissions (Ashdown/Baccigalupi)
      3. CMB Power spectra and Planck likelihood code CLIK(Bouchet/Natoli)
      4. Simulations (TBC, bouchet)
   7. Scientific analyses products (bouchet)
   8. PSO processing (To be removed)
5. Planck Legacy Archive(Dupac)
6. Mission products
   1. Timelines: (Not in 1st Release)
   2. Frequency Maps: Types of maps • List of products • FITS file structure
   3. The RIMOs: Map-level data • Band transmissions • Beam Window Functions
   4. Effective Beams (Rocha??)
   5. Catalogues: ERCSC • Compact Sources • SZ Clusters
   6. Frequency maps angular power spectra (Zacheoi/Bouchet)
   7. Astrophysical component maps: CMB • Foregrounds • Dust opacity • CO emission
   8. Planck CMB spectrum and Likelihood Code (Bouchet/Natoli)
   9. Cosmological Parameters
   10. Specially processed maps: Lensing map
   11. Additional angular power spectra (SZ, CIB...)
   12. Scientific data used to generate Planck products
   13. Simulation data
   14. Survey history data (Dupac) SHoudl this be here or in the next chapter??
   15. Satellite history data (Not in 1st release)
7. Payload design, performance and calibration data
   1. Instrument performance
   2. Telescope
   3. Thermal and cooler system
   4. Fiber optic gyro (Not in 1st Release)
   5. Space radiation environment monitor
8. Software utilities
   1. Unpack and display (Not in 1st release)
   2. Unit conversion and Color correction (DPC)
   3. Print and plot (Not in 1st release)
   4. Analysis (Not in 1st release)
   5. Format conversion (Not in 1st release)
9. Appendix
10. Glossary
11. List of acronyms
12. References