Cosmological science enabled by Planck
arXiv:astro-ph/0606643 · doi:10.1016/j.newar.2006.09.008
Abstract
Planck will be the first mission to map the entire cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky with mJy sensitivity and resolution better than 10'. The science enabled by such a mission spans many areas of astrophysics and cosmology. In particular it will lead to a revolution in our understanding of primary and secondary CMB anisotropies, the constraints on many key cosmological parameters will be improved by almost an order of magnitude (to sub-percent levels) and the shape and amplitude of the mass power spectrum at high redshift will be tightly constrained.
10 pages, 6 figures, proceedings of the UC Irvine conference on cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization anisotropies