Planck

Mission Characteristics

Background: Planck is a third generation space based cosmic microwave background experiment, operating at nine frequencies between 30 and 857 GHz
Mission Milestones: Launch: May 2009
Start of First All Sky Survey: August 2009
End of Nominal Mission: Nov 2010
End of HFI operations: Jan 2012
End of LFI operations: Oct 2013
Spacecraft deactivated: Oct 2013
Frequency: 30, 44, 70, 100, 143, 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz
(350 µm - 1 cm)
Spatial Resolution (FWHM in arcmin): 32.3, 27, 13.2, 9.7, 7.3, 5, 4.9, 4.8, 4.6
Area Coverage: All Sky (covered 5 times by HFI and 8.5 times by LFI)
Instruments:
  • High Frequency Instrument (HFI): 100, 143, 217, 353, 545 and 857 GHz
  • Low Frequency Instrument (LFI): 30, 44, and 70 GHz
Science Products Generated:
  • Public Data Release 3: All Sky Temperature and Polarization Maps, Catalog, Cosmology Results, Masks, Instrument Parameters
  • Public Data Release 2: All Sky Temperature and Polarization Maps, Time Ordered Information Access, Catalogs, Cosmology Results, Masks, Instrument Parameters, Software and Analysis products
  • Public Data Release 1: All Sky Temperature Maps, Catalogs, Cosmology Results, Power Spectra, Masks, Simulations, Instrument Parameters, Software and Analysis products
  • Early Release Compact Source Catalog
Releases:
Funding Agency: Planck is an ESA mission with significant NASA involvement.
Canonical Paper:

IRSA Services - Public Data Release 3

Planck All Sky Maps Temperature and Polarization Maps
Catalog Query Access the Planck Multi-frequency Catalogue of Non-thermal Sources through IRSA's Catalog Search service
Planck Ancillary Data Cosmology Parameters and Likelihoods, Masks and Instrument Parameters, and Other Data Products for PR3
Software Software for Analysis of Planck Data
PR3 Documentation Documentation for Public Data Release 3

IRSA Services - Public Data Release 2

Planck All Sky Maps Temperature and Polarization Maps
Planck Data Exploration Interactive Search, Visualization, and Download of Catalogs and Map Cutouts; Time Ordered Information (TOI) Search and Map Generation
Time Ordered Information (TOI) Planck TOI Reduced Data
Catalog Query Access the PR2 catalogs through IRSA's Catalog Search service
Download Planck Catalogs PCCS2, SZ2, and Cold Clumps Catalogs
Planck Ancillary Data Cosmology Parameters and Likelihoods, Masks and Instrument Parameters, and Other Data Products for PR2
External Datasets Multiwavelength maps useful for analysis of Planck data
Bolocam Planck SZ Clusters Public data from the Bolocam Survey of 44 Planck SZ clusters
Software Software for Analysis of Planck Data
PR2 Documentation Documentation for Public Data Release 2

IRSA Services - Public Data Release 1

Planck All Sky Maps Temperature and Component Separated Maps
Catalog and Map Visualization Visualization and enhanced access to the Planck All Sky Maps and the PCCS
Catalog Query Access to the PCCS through IRSA's Catalog Search service
Download Planck SZ Catalogs Download the Planck Sunyaev Zeldovich Cluster sample.
Dec. 2015: v2.1 of the PSZ1 catalog was added to the tarball.
Download entire PCCS Download the Planck Catalog of Compact Sources
Planck Ancillary Data Power Spectra, Masks, Simulations and Instrument Parameters
External Datasets Multiwavelength maps useful for analysis of Planck data
Software and Analysis Products Useful software and products for analysis of Planck data
Data Release 1 Explanatory Supplement (pdf)
Documentation for Public Data Release 1.

IRSA Services - Early Release Catalogs

ERCSC Visualization Visualization and enhanced access to the Early Release Compact Source Catalog
Catalog Query Alternate access to the ERCSC through IRSA's Catalog Search service
Download Planck ESZ Download the Planck Early Sunyaev Zeldovich Cluster sample
Download Planck ECC Download the Planck Early Cold Clumps sample
Download Planck ERCSC-V1.3,ESZ and ECC Download Planck ERCSC-V1.2,ESZ and ECC Download the ERCSC ESZ and ECC as one tarball
ERCSC Explanatory Supplement Documentation for the ERCSC

Other Resources:

ESA Planck Legacy Archive (PLA)
ESA Planck Science Home Page
US Planck Data Center Home Page