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most citedPlanck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results

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astro-ph.CO2013★ 513 cited

Planck 2013 results. XXIX. Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +272

We describe the all-sky Planck catalogue of clusters and cluster candidates derived from Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect detections using the first 15.5 months of Planck satellite o…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 563 cited

Planck 2013 results. XXIII. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +252

The two fundamental assumptions of the standard cosmological model - that the initial fluctuations are statistically isotropic and Gaussian - are rigorously tested using maps of th…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 625 cited

Planck 2013 results. XX. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +252

We present constraints on cosmological parameters using number counts as a function of redshift for a sub-sample of 189 galaxy clusters from the Planck SZ (PSZ) catalogue. The PSZ…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 97 cited

Planck 2013 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan +229

We describe the data processing pipeline of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing centre (DPC) to create and characterize full-sky maps based on the first 15.5…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1.8k cited

Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +398

The ESA's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14 May 2009 and has been scanning the microwave and submillimetre sk…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 98 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. XI: The gas content of dark matter halos: the Sunyaev-Zeldovich-stellar mass relation for locally brightest galaxies

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +194

We present the scaling relation between Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal and stellar mass for almost 260,000 locally brightest galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Surv…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 39 cited

Planck intermediate results. VII. Statistical properties of infrared and radio extragalactic sources from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue at frequencies between 100 and 857 GHz

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +188

(abridged for arXiv) We make use of the Planck all-sky survey to derive number counts and spectral indices of extragalactic sources -- infrared and radio sources -- from the Planck…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 203 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +214

Taking advantage of the all-sky coverage and broad frequency range of the Planck satellite, we study the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) and pressure profiles of 62 nearby massive clusters…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 87 cited

Planck Early Results XXVI: Detection with Planck and confirmation by XMM-Newton of PLCK G266.6-27.3, an exceptionally X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster at z~1

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +189

We present first results on PLCK G266.6-27.3, a galaxy cluster candidate detected at a signal-to-noise ratio of 5 in the Planck All Sky survey. An XMM-Newton validation observation…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 151 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 93 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 114 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 453 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 156 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 283 cited

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 (…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 136 cited

Planck early results. III. First assessment of the Low Frequency Instrument in-flight performance

A. Mennella, M. Bersanelli, R. C. Butler +158

The scientific performance of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) after one year of in-orbit operation is presented. We describe the main optical parameters and discuss photo…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 217 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 148 cited

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).…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 221 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 161 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 83 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 17 cited

Residual noise covariance for Planck low-resolution data analysis

R. Keskitalo, M. A. J. Ashdown, P. Cabella +22

Aims: Develop and validate tools to estimate residual noise covariance in Planck frequency maps. Quantify signal error effects and compare different techniques to produce low-resol…