Planckearly results. III. First assessment of the Low Frequency Instrument in-flight performance

2011/01/31 by A. Mennella, M. Bersanelli, R. C. Butler +173 · 7 citations
Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Physics #Planck #Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation #Scientific Research and Discoveries #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201116480

published as A&A Vol 536, A3 (Dec 2011) · Published version

openalex publication_date 2011/05/13 · arxiv created 2011/12/19 · arxiv updated 2015/03/17 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

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 photometric calibration, white noise sensitivity, and noise properties. A preliminary evaluation of the impact of the main systematic effects is presented. For each of the performance parameters, we outline the methods used to obtain them from the flight data and provide a comparison with pre-launch ground assessments, which are essentially confirmed in flight.

Citations

• Cosmic microwave background power spectrum estimation with the destriping technique
• Planckearly results. XXI. Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane
• Destriping CMB temperature and polarization maps
• The Planck-LFI Radiometer Electronics Box Assembly
• Planckearly results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources
• Planckearly results. XXVI. Detection withPlanckand confirmation byXMM-Newtonof PLCK G266.6–27.3, an exceptionally X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster atz ~ 1
• Planckearly results. XX. New light on anomalous microwave emission from spinning dust grains
• Planckearly results. XIII. Statistical properties of extragalactic radio sources in thePlanckEarly Release Compact Source Catalogue
• SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: SKY MAPS, SYSTEMATIC ERRORS, AND BASIC RESULTS
• Planck-LFI radiometers tuning
• FIVE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE OBSERVATIONS: DATA PROCESSING, SKY MAPS, AND BASIC RESULTS

Cited by

• Planckearly results. XX. New light on anomalous microwave emission from spinning dust grains
• Planckearly results. XXI. Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane
• Planckearly results. XIII. Statistical properties of extragalactic radio sources in thePlanckEarly Release Compact Source Catalogue
• Planckearly results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources
• Planckearly results. XVIII. The power spectrum of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
• Planckearly results. XI. Calibration of the local galaxy cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations
• Planckearly results. II. The thermal performance ofPlanck