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most citedPlanck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters

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astro-ph.CO2016★ 178 cited

Planck intermediate results. LI. Features in the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum and shifts in cosmological parameters

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +150

The six parameters of the standard CDM model have best-fit values derived from the Planck temperature power spectrum that are shifted somewhat from the best-fit values derived f…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 65 cited

Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence for spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB -mode analysis

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +156

The characterization of the Galactic foregrounds has been shown to be the main obstacle in the challenging quest to detect primordial B-modes in the polarized microwave sky. We mak…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 25 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLIII. The spectral energy distribution of dust in clusters of galaxies

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +177

Although infrared (IR) overall dust emission from clusters of galaxies has been statistically detected using data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), it has not been p…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 10.6k cited

Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +259

We present results based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB. These data are consistent with the six-parameter inflationary…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 40 cited

Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +352

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14~May 2009 and scanned the microwave and submilli…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 111 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXXIII. Signature of the magnetic field geometry of interstellar filaments in dust polarization maps

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +187

Planck observations at 353GHz provide the first fully-sampled maps of the polarized dust emission towards interstellar filaments and their backgrounds. The polarization data provid…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 154 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXIX. All-sky dust modelling with Planck, IRAS, and WISE observations

Plank Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +195

We present all-sky modelling of the high resolution Planck, IRAS, and WISE infrared (IR) observations using the physical dust model presented by Draine and Li in 2007 (DL). We stud…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 26 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXIII. Galactic plane emission components derived from Planck with ancillary data

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +189

Planck data when combined with ancillary data provide a unique opportunity to separate the diffuse emission components of the inner Galaxy. The purpose of the paper is to elucidate…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 40 cited

Planck intermediate results. XVI. Profile likelihoods for cosmological parameters

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

We explore the 2013 Planck likelihood function with a high-precision multi-dimensional minimizer (Minuit). This allows a refinement of the Lambda-cdm best-fit solution with respect…

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★ 10 cited

Planck intermediate results. VI: The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +200

The survey of galaxy clusters performed by Planck through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has already discovered many interesting objects, thanks to the whole coverage of the sky. One…

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.IM2011★ 190 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 150 cited

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…

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★ 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…