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Explanatory Supplement
By the Planck Collaboration
The Explanatory Supplement is a reference text accompanying the public data delivered from the operations of the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite during its mission.
- Introduction
- The Instruments
- Data processing
- Mission products
- Time-ordered data
- Sky temperature and polarization maps
- Instrument model
- Scanning Beams
- Effective beams
- Catalogues: PCCS • PSZ • PGCC
- CMB and astrophysical component maps
- CMB spectrum and likelihood code
- Cosmological parameters and MC chains
- Additional maps: Lensing map • Compton parameter map
- Scientific data used to generate Planck products
- Simulation data
- Dates of observations
- Software utilities
- Operational data
- Appendix