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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The technique of photometric redshifts has become essential for the exploitation of multi-band extragalactic surveys. While the requirements on photometric redshifts for the study of galaxy evolution mostly pertain to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Context . The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency will perform a survey of weak lensing cosmic shear and galaxy clustering in order to constrain cosmological models and fundamental physics.
Aims . We expand and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Forthcoming imaging surveys will increase the number of known galaxy-scale strong lenses by several orders of magnitude. For this to happen, images of billions of galaxies will have to be inspected to identify potential ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The Euclid mission will conduct an extragalactic survey over 15 000 deg 2 of the extragalactic sky. The spectroscopic channel of the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) has a resolution of R ~ 450 for its blue ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Context. The Copernican principle, the notion that we are not at a special location in the Universe, is one of the cornerstones of modern cosmology. Its violation would invalidate the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The Euclid space telescope will survey a large dataset of cosmic voids traced by dense samples of galaxies. In this work we estimate its expected performance when exploiting angular photometric void clustering, galaxy weak ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The European Space Agency's Euclid mission will provide high-quality imaging for about 1.5 billion galaxies. A software pipeline to automatically process and analyse such a huge amount of data in real time is being developed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Euclid ’s photometric galaxy cluster survey has the potential to be a very competitive cosmological probe. The main cosmological probe with observations of clusters is their number count, within which the halo mass function ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The Euclid Space Telescope will provide deep imaging at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, along with slitless near-infrared spectroscopy, across ~15 000deg 2 of the sky. Euclid is expected to detect ~12 billion ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Next-generation telescopes, like Euclid, Rubin/LSST, and Roman, will open new windows on the Universe, allowing us to infer physical properties for tens of millions of galaxies. Machine-learning methods are increasingly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Current and future imaging surveys require photometric redshifts (photo- z s) to be estimated for millions of galaxies. Improving the photo- z quality is a major challenge but is needed to advance our understanding of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Recent cosmic shear studies have shown that higher-order statistics (HOS) developed by independent teams now outperform standard two-point estimators in terms of statistical precision thanks to their sensitivity to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Cosmological constraints from key probes of the Euclid imaging survey rely critically on the accurate determination of the true redshift distributions, n ( z ), of tomographic redshift bins. We determine whether the mean ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Material outgassing in a vacuum leads to molecular contamination, a well-known problem in spaceflight. Water is the most common contaminant in cryogenic spacecraft, altering numerous properties of optical systems. Too much ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The measurement of the absolute neutrino mass scale from cosmological large-scale clustering data is one of the key science goals of the Euclid mission. Such a measurement relies on precise modelling of the impact of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The material composition of asteroids is an essential piece of knowledge in the quest to understand the formation and evolution of the Solar System. Visual to near-infrared spectra or multiband photometry is required to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This work focusses on the pilot run of a simulation campaign aimed at investigating the spectroscopic capabilities of the Euclid Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP), in terms of continuum and emission line ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
We have investigated the cosmological constraints that can be expected from measurement of the cross-correlation of galaxies with cosmic voids identified in the Euclid spectroscopic survey, which will include spectroscopic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Aims. We investigate the importance of lensing magnification for estimates of galaxy clustering and its cross-correlation with shear for the photometric sample of Euclid . Using updated specifications, we study the impact ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
We present a tomographic weak lensing analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 4 (KiDS-1000), using a new pseudo angular power spectrum estimator (pseudo- C ℓ ) under development for the ESA Euclid mission. Over ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Euclid will be the first space mission to survey most of the extragalactic sky in the 0.95–2.02 µm range, to a 5 σ point-source median depth of 24.4 AB mag. This unique photometric dataset will find wide use beyond Euclid’s ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The Complete Calibration of the Color–Redshift Relation survey (C3R2) is a spectroscopic program designed to empirically calibrate the galaxy color–redshift relation to the Euclid depth (IE = 24.5), a key ingredient for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Euclid is a mission of the European Space Agency that is designed to constrain the properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It will carry out a wide area imaging and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
We present a method for fast evaluation of the covariance matrix for a two-point galaxy correlation function (2PCF) measured with the Landy–Szalay estimator. The standard way of evaluating the covariance matrix consists ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
An accurate covariance matrix is essential for obtaining reliable cosmological results when using a Gaussian likelihood. In this paper we study the covariance of pseudo- C ℓ estimates of tomographic cosmic shear power ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The NISP (Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer) is one of the two Euclid instruments (see ref [1]). It operates in the near-IR spectral region (950-2020nm) as a photometer and spectrometer. The instrument is composed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Context. The Euclid mission is expected to discover thousands of z > 6 galaxies in three deep fields, which together will cover a ∼50 deg 2 area. However, the limited number of Euclid bands (four) and the low availability ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project aimed at studying the magnetic connectivity of the solar atmosphere, from the deep photosphere to the upper chromosphere. Its design combines the knowledge and expertise ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The Euclid mission – with its spectroscopic galaxy survey covering a sky area over 15 000 deg 2 in the redshift range 0.9 < z < 1.8 – will provide a sample of tens of thousands of cosmic voids. This paper thoroughly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Pair-instability supernovae are theorized supernovae that have not yet been observationally confirmed. They are predicted to exist in low-metallicity environments. Because overall metallicity becomes lower at higher ...
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The combination and cross-correlation of the upcoming Euclid data with cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements is a source of great expectation since it will provide the largest lever arm of epochs, ranging from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Context. The ESA Euclid mission will produce photometric galaxy samples over 15 000 square degrees of the sky that will be rich for clustering and weak lensing statistics. The accuracy of the cosmological constraints derived ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Context. The standard cosmological model is based on the fundamental assumptions of a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe on large scales. An observational detection of a violation of these assumptions at any ...
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We present a new infrared survey covering the three Euclid deep fields and four other Euclid calibration fields using Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). We combined these new observations with all ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
We present a machine learning framework to simulate realistic galaxies for the Euclid Survey, producing more complex and realistic galaxies than the analytical simulations currently used in Euclid . The proposed method ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Euclid is poised to survey galaxies across a cosmological volume of unprecedented size, providing observations of more than a billion objects distributed over a third of the full sky. Approximately 20 million of these ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Context. While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area (∼15 000 deg 2 ), spatial resolution, low ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
We present a new, updated version of the EuclidEmulator (called EuclidEmulator2), a fast and accurate predictor for the nonlinear correction of the matter power spectrum. 2 per cent level accurate emulation is now supported ...
Euclid: Constraining dark energy coupled to electromagnetism using astrophysical and laboratory data
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In physically realistic, scalar-field-based dynamical dark energy models (including, e.g., quintessence), one naturally expects the scalar field to couple to the rest of the model’s degrees of freedom. In particular, a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Aims. We investigate the contribution of shot-noise and sample variance to uncertainties in the cosmological parameter constraints inferred from cluster number counts, in the context of the Euclid survey.
Methods. By ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Modelling uncertainties at small scales, i.e. high k in the power spectrum P(k), due to baryonic feedback, nonlinear structure growth and the fact that galaxies are biased tracers poses a significant obstacle to fully ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Photometric redshifts (photo- z s) are one of the main ingredients in the analysis of cosmological probes. Their accuracy particularly affects the results of the analyses of galaxy clustering with photometrically selected ...
Euclid: The reduced shear approximation and magnification bias for Stage IV cosmic shear experiments
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Context. Stage IV weak lensing experiments will offer more than an order of magnitude leap in precision. We must therefore ensure that our analyses remain accurate in this new era. Accordingly, previously ignored systematic ...
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The Euclid mission will observe well over a billion galaxies out to z ∼ 6 and beyond. This will offer an unrivalled opportunity to investigate several key questions for understanding galaxy formation and evolution. The ...
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Aims. Our aim is to quantify the impact of systematic effects on the inference of cosmological parameters from cosmic shear.
Methods. We present an “end-to-end” approach that introduces sources of bias in a modelled weak ...
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Weak lensing, which is the deflection of light by matter along the line of sight, has proven to be an efficient method for constraining models of structure formation and reveal the nature of dark energy. So far, most ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Context. Future weak lensing surveys, such as the Euclid mission, will attempt to measure the shapes of billions of galaxies in order to derive cosmological information. These surveys will attain very low levels of statistical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Aims. The Euclid space telescope will measure the shapes and redshifts of galaxies to reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structures. The estimation of the expected performance of the ...
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We present the NPIPE processing pipeline, which produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and High Frequency Instrument (HFI) using ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The Complete Calibration of the Colour–Redshift Relation survey (C3R2) is a spectroscopic effort involving ESO and Keck facilities designed specifically to empirically calibrate the galaxy colour–redshift relation – P ( z ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Context. The data from the Euclid mission will enable the measurement of the angular positions and weak lensing shapes of over a billion galaxies, with their photometric redshifts obtained together with ground-based ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Context. The ESA Euclid space telescope could observe up to 150 000 asteroids as a side product of its primary cosmological mission. Asteroids appear as trailed sources, that is streaks, in the images. Owing to the survey ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper presents the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data processing procedures for the Planck 2018 release. Major improvements in mapmaking have been achieved since the previous Planck 2015 release, many of which were ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Context. In metric theories of gravity with photon number conservation, the luminosity and angular diameter distances are related via the Etherington relation, also known as the distance duality relation (DDR). A violation ...
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The study of polarized dust emission has become entwined with the analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization in the quest for the curl-like B -mode polarization from primordial gravitational waves and ...
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We describe the legacy Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) likelihoods derived from the 2018 data release. The overall approach is similar in spirit to the one retained for the 2013 and 2015 data release, with a hybrid ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Observations of the submillimetre emission from Galactic dust, in both total intensity I and polarization, have received tremendous interest thanks to the Planck full-sky maps. In this paper we make use of such full-sky ...
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We analyse the Planck full-mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E -mode polarization maps to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). We compare estimates obtained from separable ...
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Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data ...
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We present full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission, derived from the third set of Planck frequency maps. These products have significantly lower contamination ...
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The largest temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the dipole, which has been measured with increasing accuracy for more than three decades, particularly with the Planck satellite. The simplest ...
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We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 release of the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent with those reported using the data from the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, which was 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 ...
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We describe an extension of the most recent version of the Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources (PCCS2), produced using a new multi-band Bayesian Extraction and Estimation Package ( BeeP ). BeeP assumes that the compact ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Forthcoming large photometric surveys for cosmology require precise and accurate photometric redshift (photo- z ) measurements for the success of their main science objectives. However, to date, no method has been able to ...
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We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps filtered to account for the noise anisotropy, we ...
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We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been made with respect to the previous release, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In modern weak-lensing surveys, the common approach to correct for residual systematic biases in the shear is to calibrate shape measurement algorithms using simulations. These simulations must fully capture the complexity ...
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Galaxy cluster counts in bins of mass and redshift have been shown to be a competitive probe to test cosmological models. This method requires an efficient blind detection of clusters from surveys with a well-known selection ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
We provide predictions of the yield of 7 < z < 9 quasars from the Euclid wide survey, updating the calculation presented in the Euclid Red Book in several ways. We account for revisions to the Euclid near-infrared ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Using the Planck full-mission data, we present a detection of the temperature (and therefore velocity) dispersion due to the kinetic SunyaevZeldovich (kSZ) effect from clusters of galaxies. To suppress the primary CMB and ...
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This paper presents the Planck Multi-frequency Catalogue of Non-thermal (i.e. synchrotron-dominated) Sources (PCNT) observed between 30 and 857 GHz by the ESA Planck mission. This catalogue was constructed by selecting ...
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The characterization of the Galactic foregrounds has been shown to be the main obstacle in thechallenging quest to detect primordial B-modes in the polarized microwave sky. We make use of the Planck-HFI 2015 data release ...
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Planck has mapped the microwave sky in temperature over nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz and in polarization over seven frequency bands between 30 and 353 GHz in polarization. In this paper we consider the problem ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
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Continuum spectra covering centimetre to submillimetre wavelengths are presented for a northern sample of 104 extragalactic radio sources, mainly active galactic nuclei, based on four-epoch Planck data. The nine Planck ...
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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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This paper describes the processing applied to the cleaned, time-ordered information obtained from the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) with the aim of producing photometrically calibrated maps in temperature and ...
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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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 coverage, together with its high sensitivity, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 possible to sample the spectral energy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
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We present foreground-reduced cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, the total ...
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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 ...
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This paper presents the Planck 2015 likelihoods, statistical descriptions of the 2-point correlationfunctions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fluctuations that account for relevant ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) has observed the full sky at six frequencies (100, 143, 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz) in intensity and at four frequencies in linear polarization (100, 143, 217, and 353 GHz). In ...
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The Planck mission, thanks to its large frequency range and all-sky coverage, has a unique potential for systematically detecting the brightest, and rarest, submillimetre sources on the sky, including distant objects in ...
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Recent models for the large-scale Galactic magnetic fields in the literature have been largely constrained by synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation measures. We use three different but representative models to compare ...
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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 results and methods have remained unchanged ...
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The role of the magnetic field in the formation of the filamentary structures observed in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a debated topic owing to the paucity of relevant observations needed to test existing models. The ...
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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 from Galactic dust. We present a statistical ...
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The all-sky Planck survey in 9 frequency bands was used to search for emission from all 274 known Galactic supernova remnants. Of these, 16 were detected in at least two Planck frequencies. The radio-through-microwave ...