G. Maggio

TL;DR: 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 was constructed by selecting objects detected in the full-sky temperature maps at 30 and 143 GHz, with a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N)>3 in at least one of the two channels after filtering with a particular Mexican hat wavelet as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the level of distortion introduced by the on-board processing as a function of these parameters and proposed a method of tuning the onboard processing chain to cope with the limited bandwidth while keeping to a minimum the signal distortion.

TL;DR: The LIFE software suite has been successfully used during the RCA/RAA tests and the Planck Integrated System Tests, and passed the verification for its in-flight use during the System Operations Verification Tests, held in October 2008.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use three different but representative models to compare their predicted polarized synchrotron and dust emission with that measured by the Planck satellite, and find that the dust predictions do not match the morphology in the planck data but underpredict the dust polarization away from the plane.

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.