Planck pre-launch status: Design and description of the Low Frequency Instrument

M Bersanelli, N Mandolesi, RC Butler…�- Astronomy &�…, 2010 - aanda.org
… 1.5 m aperture class to ensure the desired resolution with an adequate rejection of straylight
contamination (Mandolesi et al… The two detectors in radiometer R0 are named (M-00, M-01), …

Planck pre-launch status: The Planck-LFI programme

N Mandolesi, M Bersanelli, RC Butler, E Artal…�- Astronomy &�…, 2010 - aanda.org
This paper provides an overview of the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) programme within
the ESA Planck mission. The LFI instrument has been developed to produce high precision …

[HTML][HTML] Planck pre-launch status: The Planck mission

…, N Mandolesi, JL Puget, T Banos, M Bersanelli…�- Astronomy &�…, 2010 - aanda.org
… as measured on the ground are included in Bersanelli et al. (2010), Mennella et al. (… systematic
effects of thermal or electrical origin (Bersanelli et al. 2010). The main sources of potential …

Planck 2013 results. XX. Cosmology from Sunyaev–Zeldovich cluster counts

…, N Mandolesi, A Marcos-Caballero, M Maris…�- Astronomy &�…, 2014 - aanda.org
… We focus first on (Ω m ,σ 8 ), assuming that n s follows a Gaussian prior centred on the
best-fit Planck CMB value 4 (n s = 0.9603 � 0.0073). We combine our SZ counts likelihood with …

Planck early results. III. First assessment of the Low Frequency Instrument in-flight performance

A Mennella, M Bersanelli, RC Butler, A Curto…�- Astronomy &�…, 2011 - aanda.org
The scientific performance of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) after one year of in-orbit
operation is presented. We describe the main optical parameters and discuss …

Planck 2013 results. XXVII. Doppler boosting of the CMB: Eppur si muove

…, JF Mac�as-P�rez, N Mandolesi, M Maris…�- Astronomy &�…, 2014 - aanda.org
… For all four of our estimators, we find that this normalization factor is within 0.5% of that given
by N xβ ν f ∥ ,sky , as is already apparent from the triangles along the horizontal axis of Fig. …

Planck intermediate results-XI. The gas content of dark matter halos: the Sunyaev-Zeldovich-stellar mass relation for locally brightest galaxies

…, B Maffei, D Maino, N Mandolesi, M Maris…�- Astronomy &�…, 2013 - aanda.org
We present the scaling relation between Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal and stellar mass for
almost 260,000 locally brightest galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey …

Planck pre-launch status: Expected LFI polarisation capability

…, A Gregorio, R Leonardi, N Mandolesi, M Maris…�- Astronomy &�…, 2010 - aanda.org
We present a system-level description of the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) considered as
a differencing polarimeter, and evaluate its expected performance. The LFI is one of the two …

Planck early results. V. The low frequency instrument data processing

…, M L�pez-Caniego, N Mandolesi, M Maris…�- Astronomy &�…, 2011 - aanda.org
We describe the processing of data from the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) used in
production of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC). In particular, we …

Planck 2015 results-III. LFI systematic uncertainties

…, D Maino, N Mandolesi, A Mangilli, M Maris…�- Astronomy &�…, 2016 - aanda.org
We present the current accounting of systematic effect uncertainties for the Low Frequency
Instrument (LFI) that are relevant to the 2015 release of the Planck cosmological results, …