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QUBIC Technical Design Report
J. Aumont, S. Banfi, P. Battaglia +96
QUBIC is an instrument aiming at measuring the B mode polarisation anisotropies at medium scales angular scales (30-200 multipoles). The search for the primordial CMB B-mode polari…
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…
Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history
Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, N. Aghanim +163
We investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. We combine the Planck CMB anisotropy data in temperature with th…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 (…
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…
EROS 2 photometry of probable R Coronae Borealis stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
P. Tisserand, J. B. Marquette, J. P. Beaulieu +1
EROS 2 (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) conducted a survey of the SMC between July 1996 and February 2003 in two EROS broad-band colours, V_E and R_E. The photometric dat…
Photometric Constraints on Microlens Spectroscopy of EROS-BLG-2000-5
C. Afonso
We apply EROS photometric data to interpret previously published Keck and VLT spectra of the binary-microlens caustic-crossing event EROS-BLG-2000-5. We show that the VLT data impl…
Observation of Microlensing towards the Galactic Spiral Arms. EROS II 3 year survey
EROS Collaboration
We present an analysis of the light curves of 9.1 million stars observed during three seasons by EROS (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres), in the Galactic plane away from th…
AGAPEROS: Searches for microlensing in the LMC with the Pixel Method. I. Data treatment and pixel light curves production
A. -L. Melchior
Recent surveys monitoring millions of light curves of resolved stars in the LMC have discovered several microlensing events. Unresolved stars could however significantly contribute…