Publications (51)
Planck Early Results: The Planck mission
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +272
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009. Its performance is well in li…
Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab
M. Battaglieri, A. Bersani, B. Caiffi +101
MeV-GeV dark matter (DM) is theoretically well motivated but remarkably unexplored. This proposal presents the MeV-GeV DM discovery potential for a 1 m segmented CsI(Tl)…
Planck Early Results: All sky temperature and dust optical depth from Planck and IRAS: Constraints on the "dark gas" in our galaxy
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +204
We construct an all-sky map of the apparent temperature and optical depth of thermal dust emission using the Planck-HFI and IRAS data. The optical depth maps are correlated to trac…
A spectacular jet from the bright 244-440 Orion proplyd: the MUSE NFM view
A. Kirwan, C. F. Manara, E. T. Whelan +8
In this work we present the highest spatial and spectral resolution integral field observations to date of the bipolar jet from the Orion proplyd 244-440 using MUSE NFM) observatio…
Planck early results. IX. XMM-Newton follow-up for validation of Planck cluster candidates
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +197
We present the XMM-Newton follow-up for confirmation of Planck cluster candidates. Twenty-five candidates have been observed to date using snapshot (~10 ksec) exposures, ten as par…
Planck Early Results. X. Statistical analysis of Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations for X-ray galaxy clusters
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +197
All-sky data from the Planck survey and the Meta-Catalogue of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies (MCXC) are combined to investigate the relationship between the thermal Sunyaev-Ze…
QUBIC Technical Design Report
J. Aumont, S. Banfi, P. Battaglia +96
QUBIC is an instrument aiming at measuring the B mode polarisation anisotropies at medium scales angular scales (30-200 multipoles). The search for the primordial CMB B-mode polari…
Latest Progress on the QUBIC Instrument
A. Ghribi, J. Aumont, E. S. Battistelli +60
QUBIC is a unique instrument that crosses the barriers between classical imaging architectures and interferometry taking advantage from both for high sensitivity and systematics mi…
Multiple Components of the Outflow in the Protostellar System HH 212: Outer Outflow Shell, Rotating Wind, Shocked Wind, and Jet
J. A. López-Vázquez, Chin-Fei Lee, Hsien Shang +8
We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Band 7 observations of the CO (J=3-2) line emission of the protostellar system HH 212 at 24 au spatial resolution…
CTA Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015)
The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1305
List of contributions from the CTA Consortium presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands.
First Detection of Polarization of the Submillimetre Diffuse Galactic Dust Emission by Archeops
A. Benoit, P. Ade, A. Amblard +65
We present the first determination of the Galactic polarized emission at 353 GHz by Archeops. The data were taken during the Arctic night of February 7, 2002 after the balloon--bor…
Planck Early Results XXIV: Dust in the diffuse interstellar medium and the Galactic halo
Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +205
This paper presents the first results of comparison of Planck along with IRAS data with Green Bank Telescope 21-cm observations in 14 fields covering more than 800 square degrees a…
Planck Early Results XI: Calibration of the local galaxy cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +207
We present precise Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect measurements in the direction of 62 nearby galaxy clusters (z <0.5) detected at high signal-to-noise in the first Planck all-sky da…
QUBIC - The Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology - A novel way to look at the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background
A. Mennella, P. A. R. Ade, J. Aumont +105
In this paper we describe QUBIC, an experiment that takes up the challenge posed by the detection of primordial gravitational waves with a novel approach, that combines the sensiti…
Planck early results. XX. New light on anomalous microwave emission from spinning dust grains
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +213
Anomalous microwave emission (AME) has been observed by numerous experiments in the frequency range ~10-60 GHz. Using Planck maps and multi-frequency ancillary data, we have constr…
Planck Early Results: The submillimetre properties of a sample of Galactic cold clumps
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +201
(abridged) We perform a detailed investigation of sources from the Cold Cores Catalogue of Planck Objects (C3PO). Our goal is to probe the reliability of the detections, validate t…
The Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Power Spectrum measured by Archeops
A. Benoit, P. Ade, A. Amblard +65
We present a determination by the Archeops experiment of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy in 16 bins over the multipole range l=15-350. Arch…
Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab: an update on PR12-16-001
M. Battaglieri, A. Bersani, G. Bracco +123
This document is an update to the proposal PR12-16-001 Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab submitted to JLab-PAC44 in 2016 reporting progress in add…
The Morphology of the HD 163296 jet as a window on its planetary system
A. Kirwan, A. Murphy, P. C Schneider +3
HD163296 is a Herbig Ae star which drives a bipolar knotty jet with a total length of ~6000au. Strong evidence exists that the disk of HD163296 harbors planets. Studies have shown…
Planck Early Results. II. The thermal performance of Planck
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +225
The performance of the Planck instruments in space is enabled by their low operating temperatures, 20K for LFI and 0.1K for HFI, achieved through a combination of passive radiative…
Contributions of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016)
The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1387
List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium presented at the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016), July 11-15,…
The BUTTON-30 detector at Boulby
J. Bae, M. Bergevin, E. P. Bernard +62
The BUTTON-30 detector is a 30-tonne technology demonstrator designed to evaluate the potential of hybrid event detection, simultaneously exploiting both Cherenkov and scintillatio…
Planck early results. VI. The High Frequency Instrument data processing
Planck HFI Core Team, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +163
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 o…
Evaluating Astronomy Literacy of the General Public
C. Love, A. Murphy, S. Bonora
A scientifically literate society is important for many different reasons, some of which include democratic and scientific topics. This study was performed in order to identify top…
The accretion-ejection connection in the asymmetric Th 28 jet revealed by MUSE-NFM
A. Murphy, E. T. Whelan, F. Bacciotti +5
Mass loss through stellar jets is closely tied to the process of accretion through the disk. Understanding phenomena such as episodic ejections and outflow asymmetries can thus she…
A MUSE Spectro-imaging Study of the Th 28 Jet: Precession in the Inner Jet
A. Murphy, C. Dougados, E. T. Whelan +5
Context: Th 28 is a Classical T Tauri star in the Lupus 3 cloud which drives an extended bipolar jet. Previous studies of the inner jet identified signatures of rotation around the…
Planck Early Results: Thermal dust in Nearby Molecular Clouds
Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +197
Planck allows unbiased mapping of Galactic sub-millimetre and millimetre emission from the most diffuse regions to the densest parts of molecular clouds. We present an early analys…
Planck Early Results XVIII: The power spectrum of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202
Using Planck maps of six regions of low Galactic dust emission with a total area of about 140 square degrees, we determine the angular power spectra of cosmic infrared background (…
Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources
Planck Collaboration, J. Aatrokoski, P. A. R. Ade +246
Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and radio continuum spectra are presented for a northern sample of 104 extragalactic radio sources, based on the Planck Early Release Compact S…
Planck Early Results: Statistical properties of extragalactic radio sources in the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +201
The data reported in Planck's Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) are exploited to measure the number counts (dN/dS) of extragalactic radio sources at 30, 44, 70, 100, 1…
Forbidden Emission Line spectro-imaging of the RU Lupi jet and Low Velocity Component
M. Birney, E. T. Whelan, C. Dougados +5
The first images of the jet and low velocity component (LVC) from the strongly accreting classical T Tauri star RU Lupi are presented. Adaptive optics assisted spectro-imaging of f…
Planck early results XIV: ERCSC validation and extreme radio sources
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +206
Planck's all sky surveys at 30-857 GHz provide an unprecedented opportunity to follow the radio spectra of a large sample of extragalactic sources to frequencies 2-20 times higher…
Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab -- 2018 update to PR12-16-001
M. Battaglieri, A. Bersani, G. Bracco +122
This document complements and completes what was submitted last year to PAC45 as an update to the proposal PR12-16-001 "Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX)" at Jeffe…
Planck Early Results: Origin of the submm excess dust emission in the Magellanic Clouds
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +197
The integrated Spectral Energy Distributions of the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud appear significantly flatter than expected from dust models based on their FIR and radio emissi…
Planck early results. XXI. Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane
Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +199
(abridged) Planck has observed the entire sky from 30 GHz to 857GHz. The observed foreground emission contains contributions from different phases of the interstellar medium (ISM).…
Planck Early Results: The Galactic Cold Core Population revealed by the first all-sky survey
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202
We present the statistical properties of the first version of the Cold Core Catalogue of Planck Objects (C3PO), in terms of their spatial distribution, temperature, distance, mass,…
Cherenkov Telescope Array Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)
F. Acero, B. S. Acharya, V. AcÃn Portella +1137
List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, July 12-20 2017, Busan, Korea.
Universal features of counting statistics of thermal and quantum phase slips in superconducting nanocircuits
A. Murphy, P. Weinberg, T. Aref +4
We perform measurements of phase-slip-induced switching current events on different types of superconducting weak links and systematically study statistical properties of the switc…
Design and development of optical modules for the BUTTON-30 detector
D. S. Bhattacharya, J. Bae, M. Bergevin +63
BUTTON-30 is a neutrino detector demonstrator located in the STFC Boulby underground facility in the north-east of England. The main goal of the project is to deploy and test the p…
Planck early results: first assessment of the High Frequency Instrument in-flight performance
Planck HFI Core Team, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +163
The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) is designed to measure the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background and galactic foregrounds in six w…
Cosmological constraints from Archeops
A. Benoit, P. Ade, A. Amblard +65
We analyze the cosmological constraints that Archeops places on adiabatic cold dark matter models with passive power-law initial fluctuations. Because its angular power spectrum ha…
The Planck High Frequency Instrument, a 3rd generation CMB experiment, and a full sky submillimeter survey
J. M. Lamarre, J. L. Puget, F. Bouchet +23
The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) of Planck is the most sensitive CMB experiment ever planned. Statistical fluctuations (photon noise) of the CMB itself will be the major limitat…
Planck Early Results: The Planck View of Nearby Galaxies
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +192
The all-sky coverage of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) provides an unsurpassed survey of galaxies at submillimetre (submm) wavelengths, representing a ma…
Investigating the asymmetry of young stellar outflows: Combined MUSE-X-shooter study of the Th 28 jet
A. Murphy, E. T. Whelan, F. Bacciotti +7
Characterising stellar jet asymmetries is key to setting robust constraints on jet launching models and improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind jet launchin…
Planck early results: Cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich optical scaling relations
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +202
We present the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal-to-richness scaling relation (Y500-N200) for the MaxBCG cluster catalogue. Employing a multi-frequency matched filter on the Planck sky…
Planck Early Results VIII: The all-sky Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +235
We present the first all-sky sample of galaxy clusters detected blindly by the Planck satellite through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from its six highest frequencies. This ear…
Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab
BDX Collaboration, M. Battaglieri, A. Celentano +83
MeV-GeV dark matter (DM) is theoretically well motivated but remarkably unexplored. This Letter of Intent presents the MeV-GeV DM discovery potential for a 1 m segmented plasti…
Dark counts initiated by macroscopic quantum tunneling in NbN superconducting photon detectors
A. Murphy, A. Semenov, A. Korneev +3
We perform measurements of the switching current distributions of three w = 120 nm wide, 4 nm thick NbN superconducting strips which are used for single-photon detectors. These str…
QUBIC: The QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
The QUBIC collaboration, E. Battistelli, A. Baù +57
One of the major challenges of modern cosmology is the detection of B-mode polarization anisotropies in the CMB. These originate from tensor fluctuations of the metric produced dur…
Planck Early Results. VII. The Early Release Compact Source Catalog
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +228
(Abridged) A brief description of the methodology of construction, contents and usage of the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC), including the Early Cold Cores (…
Quasi-1-Dimensional Superconductivity in Highly Disordered NbN Nanowires
K. Yu. Arutyunov, A. Ramos-Ãlvarez, A. V. Semenov +6
The topic of superconductivity in strongly disordered materials has attracted a significant attention. In particular vivid debates are related to the subject of intrinsic spatial i…