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most citedPlanck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters

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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★ 398 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +170

This paper describes the identification, modelling, and removal of previously unexplained systematic effects in the polarization data of the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI)…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 235 cited

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…

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★ 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★ 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.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.CO2013★ 91 cited

Planck 2013 results X. Energetic particle effects: characterization, removal, and simulation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +211

We describe the detection, interpretation, and removal of the signal resulting from interactions of high energy particles with the \Planck\ High Frequency Instrument (HFI). There a…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 60 cited

Planck 2013 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan +207

This paper presents the characterization of the in-flight beams, the beam window functions and the associated uncertainties for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI). Knowledge…

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★ 52 cited

Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +208

About half of the baryons of the Universe are expected to be in the form of filaments of hot and low density intergalactic medium. Most of these baryons remain undetected even by t…

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.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.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.CO2011★ 119 cited

Planck early results: Cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich optical scaling relations

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +202

We present the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal-to-richness scaling relation (Y500-N200) for the MaxBCG cluster catalogue. Employing a multi-frequency matched filter on the Planck sky…

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…