Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results

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Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data (2016)
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Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A., …Zonca, A. (in press). Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 596, Article A110. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629018

Parity-violating extensions of the standard electromagnetic theory cause in vacuo rotation of the plane of polarization of propagating photons. This effect, also known as cosmic birefringence, has an impact on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) an... Read More about Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data.

Planck intermediate results. XLVIII. Disentangling Galactic dust emission and cosmic infrared background anisotropies (2016)
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Planck Collaboration, Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck intermediate results. XLVIII. Disentangling Galactic dust emission and cosmic infrared background anisotropies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 596, Article A109. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629022

Using the Planck 2015 data release (PR2) temperature maps, we separate Galactic thermal dust emission from cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies. For this purpose, we implement a specifically tailored component-separation method, the so-calle... Read More about Planck intermediate results. XLVIII. Disentangling Galactic dust emission and cosmic infrared background anisotropies.

Planck intermediate results. XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth (2016)
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Planck Collaboration, Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck intermediate results. XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 596, Article A107. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628890

This paper describes the identification, modelling, and removal of previously unexplained systematic effects in the polarization data of the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on large angular scales, including new mapmaking and calibration proce... Read More about Planck intermediate results. XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth.

Planck intermediate results. XLIV. Structure of the Galactic magnetic field from dust polarization maps of the southern Galactic cap (2016)
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Planck Collaboration, Aghanim, N., Alves, M. I. R., Arzoumanian, D., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck intermediate results. XLIV. Structure of the Galactic magnetic field from dust polarization maps of the southern Galactic cap. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 596, Article A105. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628636

Using data from the Planck satellite, we study the statistical properties of interstellar dust polarization at high Galactic latitudes around the south pole (b < −60°). Our aim is to advance the understanding of the magnetized interstellar medium (IS... Read More about Planck intermediate results. XLIV. Structure of the Galactic magnetic field from dust polarization maps of the southern Galactic cap.

Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history (2016)
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Planck Collaboration, Adam, R., Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 596, Article A108. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628897

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 the low-multipole polarization data to fit ΛCDM models with various para... Read More about Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history.

Planck 2015 results. XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A14. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525814

We study the implications of Planck data for models of dark energy (DE) and modified gravity (MG) beyond the standard cosmological constant scenario. We start with cases where the DE only directly affects the background evolution, considering Taylor... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity.

Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525941

We present the most significant measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential to date (at a level of 40σ), using temperature and polarization data from the Planck 2015 full-mission release. Using a polarization-only estimator... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing.

Planck 2015 results: VI. LFI mapmaking (2016)
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Kisner, T. S., Kiiveri, K., Keskitalo, R., Kurki-Suonio, H., Kunz, M., Knoche, J., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results: VI. LFI mapmaking. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, A6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525813

© ESO, 2016. This paper describes the mapmaking procedure applied to Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data. The mapmaking step takes as input the calibrated timelines and pointing information. The main products are sky maps of I, Q, and U Stokes... Read More about Planck 2015 results: VI. LFI mapmaking.

Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A4. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525809

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). The structure of the paper is similar to that presented in the 2013 Planck rel... Read More about Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions.

Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526632

We present a description of the pipeline used to calibrate the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) timelines into thermodynamic temperatures for the Planck 2015 data release, covering four years of uninterrupted operations. As in the 2013 data rele... Read More about Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration.

Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A28. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525819

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 Early Cold Core (ECC) catalogue, which was made available in 2011 wit... Read More about Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps.

Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A18. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525829

Maps of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization from the 2015 release of Planck data provide the highest quality full-sky view of the surface of last scattering available to date. This enables us to detect possible departures f... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe.

Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A24. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525833

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-Zeldovich (SZ) signal down to a signal-to-noise ratio of 6, and is more than... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts.

Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A13. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525830

This paper presents cosmological results based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Our results are in very good agreement with the 2013 analysis of the P... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters.

Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A27. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525823

We present the all-sky Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources detected from the 29 month full-mission data. The catalogue (PSZ2) is the largest SZ-selected sample of galaxy clusters yet produced and the deepest systematic all-sky surveyof... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources.

Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Arroja, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A19. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525821

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 of PMFs on the CMB temperature and polarization spectra, which is relat... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields.

Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Arroja, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A20. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525898

We present the implications for cosmic inflation of the Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in both temperature and polarization based on the full Planck survey, which includes more than twice the integration tim... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation.

Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Arroja, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A17. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525836

The Planck full mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps are analysed to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). Using three classes of optimal bispectrum estimators – separable template-fittin... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity.

Planck 2015 results: XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Akrami, Y., Aluri, P., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results: XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A16. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526681

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 on the full Planck mission for temperature, but also include some pol... Read More about Planck 2015 results: XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB.

Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results (2016)
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Adam, R., Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Akrami, Y., Alves, M., Argüeso, F., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A1. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527101

The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, which is dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously between 12 August 2009 and 23 Octob... Read More about Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results.

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