4 papers
Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB
Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +147
Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with pre…
Optical Design of PICO, a Concept for a Space Mission to Probe Inflation and Cosmic Origins
Karl Young, Marcelo Alvarez, Nicholas Battaglia +28
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a probe-class mission concept currently under study by NASA. PICO will probe the physics of the Big Bang and the energy scale of…
PICO - the probe of inflation and cosmic origins
Brian Sutin, Marcelo Alvarez, Nicholas Battaglia +31
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a NASA-funded study of a Probe-class mission concept. The top-level science objectives are to probe the physics of the Big Bang…
Planck 2018 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing
Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Argüeso +148
We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck, Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been…