Anthony Lasenby

TL;DR: The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14~May 2009 and scanned the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously between 12~August 2009 and 23~October 2013 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Strong evidence for dust and no statistically significant evidence for tensor modes is found and various model variations and extensions are probe, including adding a synchrotron component in combination with lower frequency data, and find that these make little difference to the r constraint.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a framework for the integration of the INSU-IN2P3-INP project with the National Science and Technology Facilities Council (NSF) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFL).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterized the effective beams, the effective beam window functions and the associated errors for the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) detectors, including the effect of the optics, detectors, data processing and the scan strategy.

TL;DR: 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 and scanned the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously between 12 August 2009 and 23 October 2013, producing deep, high-resolution, all-sky maps in nine frequency bands from 30 to 857GHz as mentioned in this paper.