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Planck early results. VI. The High Frequency Instrument data processing

ArXiv 1101.2048 (2011)

Authors:

Planck HFI Core Team, PAR Ade, N Aghanim, R Ansari, M Arnaud, M Ashdown, J Aumont, AJ Banday, M Bartelmann, JG Bartlett, E Battaner, K Benabed, A Benoît, J-P Bernard, M Bersanelli, JJ Bock, JR Bond, J Borrill, FR Bouchet, F Boulanger, T Bradshaw, M Bucher, J-F Cardoso, G Castex, A Catalano, A Challinor, A Chamballu, R-R Chary, X Chen, C Chiang, S Church, DL Clements, J-M Colley, S Colombi, F Couchot, A Coulais, C Cressiot, BP Crill, M Crook, P de Bernardis, J Delabrouille, J-M Delouis, F-X Désert, K Dolag, H Dole, O Doré, M Douspis, J Dunkley, G Efstathiou, C Filliard, O Forni, P Fosalba, K Ganga, M Giard, D Girard, Y Giraud-Héraud, R Gispert, KM Górski, S Gratton, M Griffin, G Guyot, J Haissinski, D Harrison, G Helou, S Henrot-Versillé, C Hernández-Monteagudo, SR Hildebrandt, R Hills, E Hivon, M Hobson, WA Holmes, KM Huffenberger, AH Jaffe, WC Jones, J Kaplan, R Kneissl, L Knox, M Kunz, G Lagache, J-M Lamarre, AE Lange, A Lasenby, A Lavabre, CR Lawrence, M Le Jeune, C Leroy, J Lesgourgues, A Lewis, JF Macías-Pérez, CJ MacTavish, B Maffei, N Mandolesi, R Mann, F Marleau, DJ Marshall, S Masi, T Matsumura, I McAuley, P McGehee, J-B Melin, C Mercier, S Mitra, M-A Miville-Deschênes, A Moneti, L Montier, D Mortlock, A Murphy, F Nati, CB Netterfield, HU Nørgaard-Nielsen, C North, F Noviello, D Novikov, S Osborne, F Pajot, G Patanchon, T Peacocke, TJ Pearson, O Perdereau, L Perotto, F Piacentini, M Piat, S Plaszczynski, E Pointecouteau, N Ponthieu, G Prézeau, S Prunet, J-L Puget, WT Reach, M Remazeilles, C Renault, A Riazuelo, I Ristorcelli, G Rocha, C Rosset, G Roudier, M Rowan-Robinson, B Rusholme, R Saha, D Santos, G Savini, BM Schaefer, P Shellard, L Spencer, J-L Starck, V Stolyarov, R Stompor, R Sudiwala, R Sunyaev, D Sutton, J-F Sygnet, JA Tauber, C Thum, J-P Torre, F Touze, M Tristram, F Van Leeuwen, L Vibert, D Vibert, BD Wandelt, SDM White, H Wiesemeyer, A Woodcraft, V Yurchenko, D Yvon, A Zacchei

Abstract:

We describe the processing of the 336 billion raw data samples from the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) which we performed to produce six temperature maps from the first 295 days of Planck-HFI survey data. These maps provide an accurate rendition of the sky emission at 100, 143, 217, 353, 545 and 857 GHz with an angular resolution ranging from 9.9 to 4.4^2. The white noise level is around 1.5 {\mu}K degree or less in the 3 main CMB channels (100--217GHz). The photometric accuracy is better than 2% at frequencies between 100 and 353 GHz and around 7% at the two highest frequencies. The maps created by the HFI Data Processing Centre reach our goals in terms of sensitivity, resolution, and photometric accuracy. They are already sufficiently accurate and well-characterised to allow scientific analyses which are presented in an accompanying series of early papers. At this stage, HFI data appears to be of high quality and we expect that with further refinements of the data processing we should be able to achieve, or exceed, the science goals of the Planck project.
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Correlations in the (Sub)millimeter background from ACTxBLAST

ArXiv 1101.1517 (2011)

Authors:

Amir Hajian, Marco P Viero, Graeme Addison, Paula Aguirre, John William Appel, Nick Battaglia, James J Bock, J Richard Bond, Sudeep Das, Mark J Devlin, Simon R Dicker, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dunner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, John P Hughes, Joseph W Fowler, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Adam D Hincks, Renee Hlozek, Kent D Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Yen-Ting Lin, Tobias A Marriage, Danica Marsden, Gaelen Marsden, Felipe Menanteau, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Kavilan Moodley, Calvin B Netterfield, Michael D Niemack, Michael R Nolta, Lyman A Page, Lucas Parker, Douglas Scott, Neelima Sehgal, Jon Sievers, David N Spergel, Suzanne T Staggs, Daniel S Swetz, Eric R Switzer, Robert Thornton, Ed Wollack

Abstract:

We present measurements of the auto- and cross-frequency correlation power spectra of the cosmic (sub)millimeter background at: 250, 350, and 500 um (1200, 860, and 600 GHz) from observations made with the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, BLAST; and at 1380 and 2030 um (218 and 148 GHz) from observations made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, ACT. The overlapping observations cover 8.6 deg^2 in an area relatively free of Galactic dust near the south ecliptic pole (SEP). The ACT bands are sensitive to radiation from the CMB, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters, and to emission by radio and dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs), while the dominant contribution to the BLAST bands is from DSFGs. We confirm and extend the BLAST analysis of clustering with an independent pipeline, and also detect correlations between the ACT and BLAST maps at over 25sigma significance, which we interpret as a detection of the DSFGs in the ACT maps. In addition to a Poisson component in the cross-frequency power spectra, we detect a clustered signal at >4sigma, and using a model for the DSFG evolution and number counts, we successfully fit all our spectra with a linear clustering model and a bias that depends only on redshift and not on scale. Finally, the data are compared to, and generally agree with, phenomenological models for the DSFG population. This study represents a first of its kind, and demonstrates the constraining power of the cross-frequency correlation technique to constrain models for the DSFGs. Similar analyses with more data will impose tight constraints on future models.
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SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: GALACTIC FOREGROUND EMISSION

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 192:2 (2011) ARTN 15

Authors:

B Gold, N Odegard, JL Weiland, RS Hill, A Kogut, CL Bennett, G Hinshaw, X Chen, J Dunkley, M Halpern, N Jarosik, E Komatsu, D Larson, M Limon, SS Meyer, MR Nolta, L Page, KM Smith, DN Spergel, GS Tucker, E Wollack, EL Wright
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SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: ARE THERE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANOMALIES?

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 192:2 (2011) ARTN 17

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CL Bennett, RS Hill, G Hinshaw, D Larson, KM Smith, J Dunkley, B Gold, M Halpern, N Jarosik, A Kogut, E Komatsu, M Limon, SS Meyer, MR Nolta, N Odegard, L Page, DN Spergel, GS Tucker, JL Weiland, E Wollack, EL Wright
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SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: POWER SPECTRA AND WMAP-DERIVED PARAMETERS

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 192:2 (2011) ARTN 16

Authors:

D Larson, J Dunkley, G Hinshaw, E Komatsu, MR Nolta, CL Bennett, B Gold, M Halpern, RS Hill, N Jarosik, A Kogut, M Limon, SS Meyer, N Odegard, L Page, KM Smith, DN Spergel, GS Tucker, JL Weiland, E Wollack, EL Wright
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