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Prospects for high-z cluster detections with Planck, based on a follow-up of 28 candidates using MegaCam@CFHT
R. F. J. van der Burg, H. Aussel, G. W. Pratt +13
The Planck catalogue of SZ sources limits itself to a significance threshold of 4.5 to ensure a low contamination rate by false cluster candidates. This means that only the most ma…
Planck intermediate results. XLI. A map of lensing-induced B-modes
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +178
The secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) -modes stem from the post-decoupling distortion of the polarization -modes due to the gravitational lensing effect of large-sc…
Planck intermediate results. XL. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Virgo cluster
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202
The Virgo cluster is the largest Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) source in the sky, both in terms of angular size and total integrated flux. Planck's wide angular scale and frequency covera…
SN 2014J at M82: I. A middle-class type Ia supernova by all spectroscopic metrics
L. Galbany, M. E. Moreno-Raya, P. Ruiz-Lapuente +20
We present the intensive spectroscopic follow up of the type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2014J in the starburst galaxy M82. Twenty-seven optical spectra have been acquired from January 22…
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. XXVI. The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +240
The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources is a catalogue of sources detected in single-frequency maps from the full duration of the Planck mission and supersedes previous vers…
Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +242
We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck satellite. Our results are based mainly…
Planck intermediate results. XXXVIII. E- and B-modes of dust polarization from the magnetized filamentary structure of the interstellar medium
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +192
The quest for a B-mode imprint from primordial gravity waves on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) requires the characterization of foreground polarization f…
The QUIJOTE experiment: project overview and first results
R. Génova-Santos, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, R. Rebolo +50
QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a new polarimeter aimed to characterize the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium…
Planck Intermediate Results. XXXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck SZ sources with telescopes in the Canary Islands Observatories
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +187
We present the results of approximately three years of observations of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources with telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories as part of the gene…
Planck intermediate results. XXXVII. Evidence of unbound gas from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +189
By looking at the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) in Planck nominal mission data, we present a significant detection of baryons participating in large-scale bulk flows aroun…
Planck 2015 results. X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps
Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +236
Planck has mapped the microwave sky in nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz in temperature and seven bands between 30 and 353 GHz in polarization. In this paper we consider…
Planck 2015 results. IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps
Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +236
We present foreground-reduced CMB maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, t…
Planck 2015 results. XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic Cold Clumps
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +220
We present the Planck Catalogue of Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCC), an all-sky catalogue of Galactic cold clump candidates detected by Planck. This catalogue is the full version of the…
Planck 2015 results. XXII. A map of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +199
We have constructed all-sky y-maps of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect by applying specifically tailored component separation algorithms to the 30 to 857 GHz frequency ch…
Planck 2015 results. VI. LFI mapmaking
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +198
This paper describes the mapmaking procedure applied to Planck LFI (Low Frequency Instrument) data. The mapmaking step takes as input the calibrated timelines and pointing informat…
Planck intermediate results. XXXV. Probing the role of the magnetic field in the formation of structure in molecular clouds
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +195
Within ten nearby (d < 450 pc) Gould Belt molecular clouds we evaluate statistically the relative orientation between the magnetic field projected on the plane of sky, inferred fro…
Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +233
We present cluster counts and corresponding cosmological constraints from the Planck full mission data set. Our catalogue consists of 439 clusters detected via their Sunyaev-Zeldov…
Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +230
We compute and investigate four types of imprint of a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies: the impact o…
Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry & topology
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +223
Full-sky CMB maps from the 2015 Planck release allow us to detect departures from global isotropy on the largest scales. We present the first searches using CMB polarization for co…
Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +227
We present the most significant measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential to date (at a level of 40 sigma), using temperature and polarization data fro…
Planck 2015 results. XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +232
We study the implications of Planck data for models of dark energy (DE) and modified gravity (MG), beyond the cosmological constant scenario. We start with cases where the DE only…
Planck 2015 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +213
We present an updated description of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing pipeline, associated with the 2015 data release. We point out the places where our re…
Planck intermediate results. XXXIV. The magnetic field structure in the Rosette Nebula
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. I. R. Alves +197
Planck has mapped the polarized dust emission over the whole sky, making it possible to trace the Galactic magnetic field structure that pervades the interstellar medium (ISM). We…