Andrea Zonca

TL;DR: The Planck Low Frequency Instrument tuning activities performed through the ground test campaigns, from Unit to Satellite levels, are described in this paper, with an overview of tuning performed during the satellite cryogenic test campaign (Summer 2008) and of the plans for the just started in-flight calibration.

TL;DR: An analytical model is developed that is able to extract most of the relevant information on the processing errors and the compression rate as a function of the signal statistics and the processing parameters to be tuned, and will be of interest for the instrument data analysis to asses the level of signal distortion introduced in the data by the on-board processing.

TL;DR: The proposed validation and verification procedure, where the on-board and ground processing are viewed as a single pipeline, demonstrated that the scientific and housekeeping processing of the Planck-LFI raw data is correct and meets the project requirements.

TL;DR: Author(s): Ade, PAR; Aghanim, N; Arnaud, M; Ashdown, M ; Atrio-Barandela, F; Aumont, J; Baccigalupi, C; Balbi, A; Banday, AJ; Barreiro, RB; Bartlett, JG; Battaner, E; Benabed, K; Bernard, J-P; Bersanelli, M.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used WMAP and Planck maps, combined with ancillary radio and IR data, to construct a sample of 98 candidate AME sources, assembling SEDs for each source using aperture photometry on 1deg-smoothed maps from 0.408 GHz up to 3000 GHz.