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most citedPlanck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation

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astro-ph.CO2021★ 267 cited

Improved limits on the tensor-to-scalar ratio using BICEP and Planck

M. Tristram, A. J. Banday, K. M. Górski +14

We present constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r using a combination of BICEP/Keck 2018 and Planck PR4 data allowing us to fit for r consistently with the six parameters of t…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 495 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2018

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…

astro-ph.IM2018

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…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 217 cited

Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +179

We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the CMB anisotropies. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6-param…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 99 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 137 cited

The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

A. Suzuki, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +149

Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 203 cited

Planck 2018 results. XI. Polarized dust foregrounds

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +131

The study of polarized dust emission has become entwined with the analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. We use new Planck maps to characterize Galactic du…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 140 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect--cosmic infrared background correlation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +199

We use Planck data to detect the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the infrared emission from the galaxies that make up the the cosmic infrar…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 79 cited

Planck 2015 results. XII. Full Focal Plane simulations

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +228

We present the 8th Full Focal Plane simulation set (FFP8), deployed in support of the Planck 2015 results. FFP8 consists of 10 fiducial mission realizations reduced to 18144 maps,…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 98 cited

Planck 2015 results. III. LFI systematic uncertainties

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, J. Aumont +166

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 428 cited

Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +242

We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck satellite. Our results are based mainly…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 27 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXXVIII. E- and B-modes of dust polarization from the magnetized filamentary structure of the interstellar medium

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +192

The quest for a B-mode imprint from primordial gravity waves on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) requires the characterization of foreground polarization f…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 276 cited

Planck 2015 results. IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +236

We present foreground-reduced CMB maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, t…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 55 cited

Planck 2015 results. VI. LFI mapmaking

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +198

This paper describes the mapmaking procedure applied to Planck LFI (Low Frequency Instrument) data. The mapmaking step takes as input the calibrated timelines and pointing informat…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 10 cited

Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +244

We present the implications for cosmic inflation of the Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in both temperature and polarization based on the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 183 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXI. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +229

This paper presents a study of the ISW effect from the Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data release. The CMB is cross-correlated with different LSS tracers: the NVSS, SDSS…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 263 cited

Planck 2015 results. VIII. High Frequency Instrument data processing: Calibration and maps

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +223

This paper describes the processing applied to the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) cleaned, time-ordered information to produce photometrically calibrated maps in temperatur…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 74 cited

Planck 2015 results. VII. HFI TOI and beam processing

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +225

The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) has observed the full sky at six frequencies (100, 143, 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz) in intensity and at four frequencies in linear polari…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 62 cited

Planck 2015 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +213

We present an updated description of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing pipeline, associated with the 2015 data release. We point out the places where our re…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 5 cited

Planck intermediate results. XV. A study of anomalous microwave emission in Galactic clouds

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +180

Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is believed to be due to electric dipole radiation from small spinning dust grains. The aim of this paper is a statistical study of the basic pro…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 241 cited

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

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan +176

Our velocity relative to the rest frame of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generates a dipole temperature anisotropy on the sky which has been well measured for more than 30…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1.1k cited

Planck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +241

We analyse the implications of the Planck data for cosmic inflation. The Planck nominal mission temperature anisotropy measurements, combined with the WMAP large-angle polarization…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 188 cited

Planck 2013 results. IX. HFI spectral response

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +217

The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) spectral response was determined through a series of ground based tests conducted with the HFI focal plane in a cryogenic environment pri…