most citedPlanck pre-launch status: Design and description of the Low Frequency Instrument

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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.IM2010★ 19 cited

Design, development, and verification of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument 70 GHz Front-End and Back-End Modules

J. Varis, N. J. Hughes, M. Laaninen +26

70 GHz radiometer front-end and back-end modules for the Low Frequency Instrument of the European Space Agencys Planck Mission were built and tested. The operating principles and t…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 7 cited

Cryogenic environment and performance for testing the Planck radiometers

L. Terenzi, M. Lapolla, M. Laaninen +21

This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/jinst The Planck LFI Radiometer Chain Assemblies (RCAs) ha…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 25 cited

Planck-LFI radiometers' spectral response

A Zonca, C Franceschet, P Battaglia +22

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) is an array of pseudo-correlation radiometers on board the Planck satellite, the ESA mission dedicated to precision measurements of the Cosmic Mi…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 176 cited

Planck pre-launch status: Design and description of the Low Frequency Instrument

M. Bersanelli, N. Mandolesi, R. C. Butler +109

In this paper we present the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), designed and developed as part of the Planck space mission, the ESA program dedicated to precision imaging of the cosmi…