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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★ 13 cited

Planck pre-launch status: calibration of the Low Frequency Instrument flight model radiometers

F. Villa, L. Terenzi, M. Sandri +71

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) on-board the ESA Planck satellite carries eleven radiometer subsystems, called Radiometer Chain Assemblies (RCAs), each composed of a pair of pse…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 4 cited

A systematic approach to the Planck LFI end-to-end test and its application to the DPC Level 1 pipeline

M. Frailis, M. Maris, A. Zacchei +23

The Level 1 of the Planck LFI Data Processing Centre (DPC) is devoted to the handling of the scientific and housekeeping telemetry. It is a critical component of the Planck ground…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 5 cited

LFI Radiometric Chain Assembly (RCA) data handling "Rachel"

M. Malaspina, E. Franceschi, P. Battaglia +26

This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/1748-0221). Planck's Low Frequency Instrument is an array…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 12 cited

Optimization of Planck/LFI on--board data handling

M. Maris, M. Tomasi, S. Galeotta +34

To asses stability against 1/f noise, the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) onboard the Planck mission will acquire data at a rate much higher than the data rate allowed by its teleme…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 5 cited

Level 1 on-ground telemetry handling in Planck LFI

A. Zacchei, M. Frailis, M. Maris +31

The Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by covering the frequency range 30-70 GHz in three bands. The primary instrument data s…