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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. Operations
      6. Performance summary
      7. 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. Pre-processing
      2. TOI processing (Mennella)
      3. Detector Pointing (Maris/Galeotta)
      4. Beams (Sandri/Villa/Rocha)
      5. Map-making (Keihanen)
      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. Astrophysical component separation (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 AMo: Is the order of the sections ok??
   1. Timelines: (Not in 1st Release)
   2. Frequency Maps AMo: rename to 'Sky temperature maps'?
   3. The Instrument database
   4. Effective Beams (Rocha)
   5. Catalogues
   6. Frequency maps angular power spectra AMo: rename to 'Sky temperature power spectra'? (Zacchei/Bouchet)
   7. Astrophysical component maps
   8. Planck CMB spectrum and Likelihood Code AMo: remove 'Planck'? (Bouchet/Natoli)
   9. Cosmological Parameters
   10. Specially processed maps
   11. Additional angular power spectra (SZ, CIB...) (No such products in 1st release)
   12. Scientific data used to generate Planck products (No such products in 1st release)
   13. Simulation data (No such products in 1st release)
   14. Survey history data (Dupac) Should this be here or in the next chapter?
   15. Satellite history data (Not in 1st release)
   16. Dates of observations
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