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Nabila Aghanim1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, Yashar Akrami4  +229 moreInstitutions (70)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present cosmological parameter results from the full-mission Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the temperature and polarization maps and the lensing reconstruction.
Abstract: We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the temperature and polarization maps and the lensing reconstruction Compared to the 2015 results, improved measurements of large-scale polarization allow the reionization optical depth to be measured with higher precision, leading to significant gains in the precision of other correlated parameters Improved modelling of the small-scale polarization leads to more robust constraints on manyparameters,withresidualmodellinguncertaintiesestimatedtoaffectthemonlyatthe05σlevelWefindgoodconsistencywiththestandard spatially-flat6-parameter ΛCDMcosmologyhavingapower-lawspectrumofadiabaticscalarperturbations(denoted“base ΛCDM”inthispaper), from polarization, temperature, and lensing, separately and in combination A combined analysis gives dark matter density Ωch2 = 0120±0001, baryon density Ωbh2 = 00224±00001, scalar spectral index ns = 0965±0004, and optical depth τ = 0054±0007 (in this abstract we quote 68% confidence regions on measured parameters and 95% on upper limits) The angular acoustic scale is measured to 003% precision, with 100θ∗ = 10411±00003Theseresultsareonlyweaklydependentonthecosmologicalmodelandremainstable,withsomewhatincreasederrors, in many commonly considered extensions Assuming the base-ΛCDM cosmology, the inferred (model-dependent) late-Universe parameters are: HubbleconstantH0 = (674±05)kms−1Mpc−1;matterdensityparameterΩm = 0315±0007;andmatterfluctuationamplitudeσ8 = 0811±0006 We find no compelling evidence for extensions to the base-ΛCDM model Combining with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements (and consideringsingle-parameterextensions)weconstraintheeffectiveextrarelativisticdegreesoffreedomtobe Neff = 299±017,inagreementwith the Standard Model prediction Neff = 3046, and find that the neutrino mass is tightly constrained toPmν < 012 eV The CMB spectra continue to prefer higher lensing amplitudesthan predicted in base ΛCDM at over 2σ, which pulls some parameters that affect thelensing amplitude away from the ΛCDM model; however, this is not supported by the lensing reconstruction or (in models that also change the background geometry) BAOdataThejointconstraintwithBAOmeasurementsonspatialcurvatureisconsistentwithaflatuniverse, ΩK = 0001±0002Alsocombining with Type Ia supernovae (SNe), the dark-energy equation of state parameter is measured to be w0 = −103±003, consistent with a cosmological constant We find no evidence for deviations from a purely power-law primordial spectrum, and combining with data from BAO, BICEP2, and Keck Array data, we place a limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r0002 < 006 Standard big-bang nucleosynthesis predictions for the helium and deuterium abundances for the base-ΛCDM cosmology are in excellent agreement with observations The Planck base-ΛCDM results are in good agreement with BAO, SNe, and some galaxy lensing observations, but in slight tension with the Dark Energy Survey’s combined-probe results including galaxy clustering (which prefers lower fluctuation amplitudes or matter density parameters), and in significant, 36σ, tension with local measurements of the Hubble constant (which prefer a higher value) Simple model extensions that can partially resolve these tensions are not favoured by the Planck data

4,688 citations


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Yashar Akrami1, Yashar Akrami2, M. Ashdown3, J. Aumont4  +180 moreInstitutions (59)
TL;DR: In this paper, a power-law fit to the angular power spectra of dust polarization at 353 GHz for six nested sky regions covering from 24 to 71 % of the sky is presented.
Abstract: The study of polarized dust emission has become entwined with the analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. We use new Planck maps to characterize Galactic dust emission as a foreground to the CMB polarization. We present Planck EE, BB, and TE power spectra of dust polarization at 353 GHz for six nested sky regions covering from 24 to 71 % of the sky. We present power-law fits to the angular power spectra, yielding evidence for statistically significant variations of the exponents over sky regions and a difference between the values for the EE and BB spectra. The TE correlation and E/B power asymmetry extend to low multipoles that were not included in earlier Planck polarization papers. We also report evidence for a positive TB dust signal. Combining data from Planck and WMAP, we determine the amplitudes and spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of polarized foregrounds, including the correlation between dust and synchrotron polarized emission, for the six sky regions as a function of multipole. This quantifies the challenge of the component separation procedure required for detecting the reionization and recombination peaks of primordial CMB B modes. The SED of polarized dust emission is fit well by a single-temperature modified blackbody emission law from 353 GHz to below 70 GHz. For a dust temperature of 19.6 K, the mean spectral index for dust polarization is $\beta_{\rm d}^{P} = 1.53\pm0.02 $. By fitting multi-frequency cross-spectra, we examine the correlation of the dust polarization maps across frequency. We find no evidence for decorrelation. If the Planck limit for the largest sky region applies to the smaller sky regions observed by sub-orbital experiments, then decorrelation might not be a problem for CMB experiments aiming at a primordial B-mode detection limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r\simeq0.01$ at the recombination peak.

1,749 citations


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Nabila Aghanim1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, Frederico Arroja4  +251 moreInstitutions (72)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the cosmological legacy of the Planck satellite, which provides the strongest constraints on the parameters of the standard cosmology model and some of the tightest limits available on deviations from that model.
Abstract: 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. It 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 857 GHz. This paper presents the cosmological legacy of Planck, which currently provides our strongest constraints on the parameters of the standard cosmological model and some of the tightest limits available on deviations from that model. The 6-parameter ΛCDM model continues to provide an excellent fit to the cosmic microwave background data at high and low redshift, describing the cosmological information in over a billion map pixels with just six parameters. With 18 peaks in the temperature and polarization angular power spectra constrained well, Planck measures five of the six parameters to better than 1% (simultaneously), with the best-determined parameter (θ*) now known to 0.03%. We describe the multi-component sky as seen by Planck, the success of the ΛCDM model, and the connection to lower-redshift probes of structure formation. We also give a comprehensive summary of the major changes introduced in this 2018 release. The Planck data, alone and in combination with other probes, provide stringent constraints on our models of the early Universe and the large-scale structure within which all astrophysical objects form and evolve. We discuss some lessons learned from the Planck mission, and highlight areas ripe for further experimental advances.

879 citations


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Nabila Aghanim1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, Yashar Akrami4  +213 moreInstitutions (66)
TL;DR: In this article, the legacy Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) likelihoods derived from the 2018 data release are described, with a hybrid method using different approximations at low (l ǫ ≥ 30) multipoles, implementing several methodological and data-analysis refinements compared to previous releases.
Abstract: We describe the legacy Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) likelihoods derived from the 2018 data release. The overall approach is similar in spirit to the one retained for the 2013 and 2015 data release, with a hybrid method using different approximations at low (l ≥ 30) multipoles, implementing several methodological and data-analysis refinements compared to previous releases. With more realistic simulations, and better correction and modelling of systematic effects, we can now make full use of the CMB polarization observed in the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) channels. The low-multipole EE cross-spectra from the 100 GHz and 143 GHz data give a constraint on the ΛCDM reionization optical-depth parameter τ to better than 15% (in combination with the TT low-l data and the high-l temperature and polarization data), tightening constraints on all parameters with posterior distributions correlated with τ . We also update the weaker constraint on τ from the joint TEB likelihood using the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) channels, which was used in 2015 as part of our baseline analysis. At higher multipoles, the CMB temperature spectrum and likelihood are very similar to previous releases. A better model of the temperature-to-polarization leakage and corrections for the effective calibrations of the polarization channels (i.e., the polarization efficiencies) allow us to make full use of polarization spectra, improving the ΛCDM constraints on the parameters θ MC , ω c , ω b , and H 0 by more than 30%, and ns by more than 20% compared to TT-only constraints. Extensive tests on the robustness of the modelling of the polarization data demonstrate good consistency, with some residual modelling uncertainties. At high multipoles, we are now limited mainly by the accuracy of the polarization efficiency modelling. Using our various tests, simulations, and comparison between different high-multipole likelihood implementations, we estimate the consistency of the results to be better than the 0.5 σ level on the ΛCDM parameters, as well as classical single-parameter extensions for the joint likelihood (to be compared to the 0.3 σ levels we achieved in 2015 for the temperature data alone on ΛCDM only). Minor curiosities already present in the previous releases remain, such as the differences between the best-fit ΛCDM parameters for the l > 800 ranges of the power spectrum, or the preference for more smoothing of the power-spectrum peaks than predicted in ΛCDM fits. These are shown to be driven by the temperature power spectrum and are not significantly modified by the inclusion of the polarization data. Overall, the legacy Planck CMB likelihoods provide a robust tool for constraining the cosmological model and represent a reference for future CMB observations.

523 citations


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Nabila Aghanim1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, Yashar Akrami4  +202 moreInstitutions (63)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an extensive set of tests of the robustness of the lensing-potential power spectrum, and constructed a minimum-variance estimator likelihood over lensing multipoles 8.
Abstract: We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps filtered to account for the noise anisotropy, we increase the significance of the detection of lensing in the polarization maps from 5σ to 9σ . Combined with temperature, lensing is detected at 40σ . We present an extensive set of tests of the robustness of the lensing-potential power spectrum, and construct a minimum-variance estimator likelihood over lensing multipoles 8 ≤ L ≤ 400 (extending the range to lower L compared to 2015), which we use to constrain cosmological parameters. We find good consistency between lensing constraints and the results from the Planck CMB power spectra within the ΛCDM model. Combined with baryon density and other weak priors, the lensing analysis alone constrains (1σ errors). Also combining with baryon acoustic oscillation data, we find tight individual parameter constraints, σ 8 = 0.811 ± 0.019, , and . Combining with Planck CMB power spectrum data, we measure σ 8 to better than 1% precision, finding σ 8 = 0.811 ± 0.006. CMB lensing reconstruction data are complementary to galaxy lensing data at lower redshift, having a different degeneracy direction in σ 8 − Ωm space; we find consistency with the lensing results from the Dark Energy Survey, and give combined lensing-only parameter constraints that are tighter than joint results using galaxy clustering. Using the Planck cosmic infrared background (CIB) maps as an additional tracer of high-redshift matter, we make a combined Planck -only estimate of the lensing potential over 60% of the sky with considerably more small-scale signal. We additionally demonstrate delensing of the Planck power spectra using the joint and individual lensing potential estimates, detecting a maximum removal of 40% of the lensing-induced power in all spectra. The improvement in the sharpening of the acoustic peaks by including both CIB and the quadratic lensing reconstruction is detected at high significance.

464 citations


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Yashar Akrami1, Frederico Arroja2, M. Ashdown3, J. Aumont4  +187 moreInstitutions (59)
TL;DR: In this paper, the Planck full-mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps were used to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity.
Abstract: We analyse the Planck full-mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). We compare estimates obtained from separable template-fitting, binned, and optimal modal bispectrum estimators, finding consistent values for the local, equilateral, and orthogonal bispectrum amplitudes. Our combined temperature and polarization analysis produces the following final results: $f_{NL}^{local}$ = −0.9 ± 5.1; $f_{NL}^{equil}$ = −26 ± 47; and $f_{NL}^{ortho}$ = −38 ± 24 (68% CL, statistical). These results include low-multipole (4 ≤ l < 40) polarization data that are not included in our previous analysis. The results also pass an extensive battery of tests (with additional tests regarding foreground residuals compared to 2015), and they are stable with respect to our 2015 measurements (with small fluctuations, at the level of a fraction of a standard deviation, which is consistent with changes in data processing). Polarization-only bispectra display a significant improvement in robustness; they can now be used independently to set primordial NG constraints with a sensitivity comparable to WMAP temperature-based results and they give excellent agreement. In addition to the analysis of the standard local, equilateral, and orthogonal bispectrum shapes, we consider a large number of additional cases, such as scale-dependent feature and resonance bispectra, isocurvature primordial NG, and parity-breaking models, where we also place tight constraints but do not detect any signal. The non-primordial lensing bispectrum is, however, detected with an improved significance compared to 2015, excluding the null hypothesis at 3.5σ. Beyond estimates of individual shape amplitudes, we also present model-independent reconstructions and analyses of the Planck CMB bispectrum. Our final constraint on the local primordial trispectrum shape is $g_{NL}^{local}$ = (−5.8 ± 6.5) × 10$^4$ (68% CL, statistical), while constraints for other trispectrum shapes are also determined. Exploiting the tight limits on various bispectrum and trispectrum shapes, we constrain the parameter space of different early-Universe scenarios that generate primordial NG, including general single-field models of inflation, multi-field models (e.g. curvaton models), models of inflation with axion fields producing parity-violation bispectra in the tensor sector, and inflationary models involving vector-like fields with directionally-dependent bispectra. Our results provide a high-precision test for structure-formation scenarios, showing complete agreement with the basic picture of the ΛCDM cosmology regarding the statistics of the initial conditions, with cosmic structures arising from adiabatic, passive, Gaussian, and primordial seed perturbations.

441 citations


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Nabila Aghanim1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, M. Ashdown4  +202 moreInstitutions (61)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an extensive analysis of systematic effects, including the use of end-to-end simulations to facilitate their removal and characterize the residuals, for the Planck 2018 HFI data.
Abstract: This paper presents the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data processing procedures for the Planck 2018 release. Major improvements in mapmaking have been achieved since the previous Planck 2015 release, many of which were used and described already in an intermediate paper dedicated to the Planck polarized data at low multipoles. These improvements enabled the first significant measurement of the reionization optical depth parameter using Planck -HFI data. This paper presents an extensive analysis of systematic effects, including the use of end-to-end simulations to facilitate their removal and characterize the residuals. The polarized data, which presented a number of known problems in the 2015 Planck release, are very significantly improved, especially the leakage from intensity to polarization. Calibration, based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole, is now extremely accurate and in the frequency range 100–353 GHz reduces intensity-to-polarization leakage caused by calibration mismatch. The Solar dipole direction has been determined in the three lowest HFI frequency channels to within one arc minute, and its amplitude has an absolute uncertainty smaller than 0.35 μ K, an accuracy of order 10−4 . This is a major legacy from the Planck HFI for future CMB experiments. The removal of bandpass leakage has been improved for the main high-frequency foregrounds by extracting the bandpass-mismatch coefficients for each detector as part of the mapmaking process; these values in turn improve the intensity maps. This is a major change in the philosophy of “frequency maps”, which are now computed from single detector data, all adjusted to the same average bandpass response for the main foregrounds. End-to-end simulations have been shown to reproduce very well the relative gain calibration of detectors, as well as drifts within a frequency induced by the residuals of the main systematic effect (analogue-to-digital convertor non-linearity residuals). Using these simulations, we have been able to measure and correct the small frequency calibration bias induced by this systematic effect at the 10−4 level. There is no detectable sign of a residual calibration bias between the first and second acoustic peaks in the CMB channels, at the 10−3 level.

212 citations


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Alain Blanchard1, Stefano Camera2, Carmelita Carbone3, Carmelita Carbone4  +173 moreInstitutions (50)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present validated Euclid cosmological forecasts for galaxy clustering, weak lensing, and the combination thereof, which combine both theoretical and observational ingredients for different Cosmological probes.
Abstract: Aims. The Euclid space telescope will measure the shapes and redshifts of galaxies to reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structures. The estimation of the expected performance of the experiment, in terms of predicted constraints on cosmological parameters, has so far relied on various individual methodologies and numerical implementations, which were developed for different observational probes and for the combination thereof. In this paper we present validated forecasts, which combine both theoretical and observational ingredients for different cosmological probes. This work is presented to provide the community with reliable numerical codes and methods for Euclid cosmological forecasts.Methods. We describe in detail the methods adopted for Fisher matrix forecasts, which were applied to galaxy clustering, weak lensing, and the combination thereof. We estimated the required accuracy for Euclid forecasts and outline a methodology for their development. We then compare and improve different numerical implementations, reaching uncertainties on the errors of cosmological parameters that are less than the required precision in all cases. Furthermore, we provide details on the validated implementations, some of which are made publicly available, in different programming languages, together with a reference training-set of input and output matrices for a set of specific models. These can be used by the reader to validate their own implementations if required.Results. We present new cosmological forecasts for Euclid . We find that results depend on the specific cosmological model and remaining freedom in each setting, for example flat or non-flat spatial cosmologies, or different cuts at non-linear scales. The numerical implementations are now reliable for these settings. We present the results for an optimistic and a pessimistic choice for these types of settings. We demonstrate that the impact of cross-correlations is particularly relevant for models beyond a cosmological constant and may allow us to increase the dark energy figure of merit by at least a factor of three.

165 citations


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Yashar Akrami1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, M. Ashdown4  +163 moreInstitutions (55)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the first detection of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect in the tSZ maps and find that it is consistent with direct measurements of the CMB dipole.
Abstract: The largest temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the dipole, which has been measured with increasing accuracy for more than three decades, particularly with the Planck satellite. The simplest interpretation of the dipole is that it is due to our motion with respect to the rest frame of the CMB. Since current CMB experiments infer temperature anisotropies from angular intensity variations, the dipole modulates the temperature anisotropies with the same frequency dependence as the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. We present the first, and significant, detection of this signal in the tSZ maps and find that it is consistent with direct measurements of the CMB dipole, as expected. The signal contributes power in the tSZ maps, which is modulated in a quadrupolar pattern, and we estimate its contribution to the tSZ bispectrum, noting that it contributes negligible noise to the bispectrum at relevant scales.

134 citations


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Nabila Aghanim1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, Yashar Akrami4  +215 moreInstitutions (65)
TL;DR: In this article, a full-sky map of the polarization fraction p, angle ψ, and dispersion of angles S of Galactic dust thermal emission produced from the 2018 release of Planck data is presented.
Abstract: We present 353 GHz full-sky maps of the polarization fraction p, angle ψ, and dispersion of angles S of Galactic dust thermal emission produced from the 2018 release of Planck data. We confirm that the mean and maximum of p decrease with increasing N_H. The uncertainty on the maximum polarization fraction, p_(max)=22.0% at 80 arcmin resolution, is dominated by the uncertainty on the zero level in total intensity. The observed inverse behaviour between p and S is interpreted with models of the polarized sky that include effects from only the topology of the turbulent Galactic magnetic field. Thus, the statistical properties of p, ψ, and S mostly reflect the structure of the magnetic field. Nevertheless, we search for potential signatures of varying grain alignment and dust properties. First, we analyse the product map S×p, looking for residual trends. While p decreases by a factor of 3--4 between N_H=10^(20) cm^(−2) and N_H=2×10^(22)cm^(−2), S×p decreases by only about 25%, a systematic trend observed in both the diffuse ISM and molecular clouds. Second, we find no systematic trend of S×p with the dust temperature, even though in the diffuse ISM lines of sight with high p and low S tend to have colder dust. We also compare Planck data with starlight polarization in the visible at high latitudes. The agreement in polarization angles is remarkable. Two polarization emission-to-extinction ratios that characterize dust optical properties depend only weakly on NH and converge towards the values previously determined for translucent lines of sight. We determine an upper limit for the polarization fraction in extinction of 13%, compatible with the p_(max) observed in emission. These results provide strong constraints for models of Galactic dust in diffuse gas.

101 citations


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Yashar Akrami, K. J. Andersen, M. Ashdown, C. Baccigalupi, Mario Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, Nicola Bartolo, Soumen Basak, K. Benabed, J.-P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, P. Bielewicz, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, Carlo Burigana, R. C. Butler, E. Calabrese, B. Casaponsa, H. C. Chiang, L. P. L. Colombo, C. Combet, B. P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, P. de Bernardis, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, E. Di Valentino, Jose M. Diego, O. Doré, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, H. K. Eriksen, R. Fernandez-Cobos, Fabio Finelli, M. Frailis, Aurelien A. Fraisse, E. Franceschi, Andrei V. Frolov, S. Galeotta, Silvia Galli, K. Ganga, Martina Gerbino, Tuhin Ghosh, J. González-Nuevo, K. M. Górski, A. Gruppuso, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Will Handley, George Helou, D. Herranz, S. R. Hildebrandt, E. Hivon, Zhiqi Huang, Andrew H. Jaffe, W. C. Jones, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, K. Kiiveri, J. B. Kim, Theodore Kisner, N. Krachmalnicoff, M. Kunz, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Anthony Lasenby, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Charles R. Lawrence, M. Le Jeune, François Levrier, Michele Liguori, P. B. Lilje, M. Lilley, V. Lindholm, M. López-Caniego, Philip Lubin, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Davide Maino, Nazzareno Mandolesi, A. Marcos-Caballero, Michele Maris, Pierrick Martin, E. Martínez-González, S. Matarrese, N. Mauri, Jason D. McEwen, Peter Meinhold, A. Mennella, M. Migliaccio, S. Mitra, D. Molinari, L. Montier, Gianluca Morgante, A. Moss, P. Natoli, D. Paoletti, B. Partridge, G. Patanchon, David Pearson, T. J. Pearson, F. Perrotta, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, Jörg P. Rachen, Martin Reinecke, Mathieu Remazeilles, A. Renzi, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, G. Roudier, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, B. Ruiz-Granados, L. Salvati, M. Savelainen, Douglas Scott, Chiara Sirignano, G. Sirri, Locke D. Spencer, A.-S. Suur-Uski, T. L. Svalheim, J. A. Tauber, Daniele Tavagnacco, M. Tenti, Luca Terenzi, H. Thommesen, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, M. Tristram, T. Trombetti, J. Valiviita, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, F. Villa, Nicola Vittorio, B. D. Wandelt, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, A. Zacchei, A. Zonca 
TL;DR: The NPIPE pipeline as mentioned in this paper produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and HFI using high-performance computers.
Abstract: We present the NPIPE processing pipeline, which produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and High Frequency Instrument (HFI) using high-performance computers. NPIPE represents a natural evolution of previous Planck analysis efforts, and combines some of the most powerful features of the separate LFI and HFI analysis pipelines. The net effect of the improvements is lower levels of noise and systematics in both frequency and component maps at essentially all angular scales, as well as notably improved internal consistency between the various frequency channels. Based on the NPIPE maps, we present the first estimate of the Solar dipole determined through component separation across all nine Planck frequencies. The amplitude is ($3366.6 \pm 2.7$)$\mu$K, consistent with, albeit slightly higher than, earlier estimates. From the large-scale polarization data, we derive an updated estimate of the optical depth of reionization of $\tau = 0.051 \pm 0.006$, which appears robust with respect to data and sky cuts. There are 600 complete signal, noise and systematics simulations of the full-frequency and detector-set maps. As a Planck first, these simulations include full time-domain processing of the beam-convolved CMB anisotropies. The release of NPIPE maps and simulations is accompanied with a complete suite of raw and processed time-ordered data and the software, scripts, auxiliary data, and parameter files needed to improve further on the analysis and to run matching simulations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the performance of 13 photometric redshift code single value redshift estimates and redshift probability distributions on a common set of data, focusing particularly on the 0.2-2.6 redshift range that the Euclid mission will probe.
Abstract: Forthcoming large photometric surveys for cosmology require precise and accurate photometric redshift (photo-z) measurements for the success of their main science objectives. However, to date, no method has been able to produce photo-$z$s at the required accuracy using only the broad-band photometry that those surveys will provide. An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current methods is a crucial step in the eventual development of an approach to meet this challenge. We report on the performance of 13 photometric redshift code single value redshift estimates and redshift probability distributions (PDZs) on a common set of data, focusing particularly on the 0.2--2.6 redshift range that the Euclid mission will probe. We design a challenge using emulated Euclid data drawn from three photometric surveys of the COSMOS field. The data are divided into two samples: one calibration sample for which photometry and redshifts are provided to the participants; and the validation sample, containing only the photometry, to ensure a blinded test of the methods. Participants were invited to provide a redshift single value estimate and a PDZ for each source in the validation sample, along with a rejection flag that indicates sources they consider unfit for use in cosmological analyses. The performance of each method is assessed through a set of informative metrics, using cross-matched spectroscopic and highly-accurate photometric redshifts as the ground truth. We show that the rejection criteria set by participants are efficient in removing strong outliers, sources for which the photo-z deviates by more than 0.15(1+z) from the spectroscopic-redshift (spec-z). We also show that, while all methods are able to provide reliable single value estimates, several machine-learning methods do not manage to produce useful PDZs. [abridged]

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G. Desprez1, S. Paltani1, Jean Coupon1, Ibrahim Almosallam2  +190 moreInstitutions (55)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the performance of 13 photometric redshift code single value redshift estimates and redshift probability distributions on a common set of data, focusing particularly on the 0.2 to 2.6 redshift range that the Euclid mission will probe.
Abstract: Forthcoming large photometric surveys for cosmology require precise and accurate photometric redshift (photo-z) measurements for the success of their main science objectives. However, to date, no method has been able to produce photo-zs at the required accuracy using only the broad-band photometry that those surveys will provide. An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current methods is a crucial step in the eventual development of an approach to meet this challenge. We report on the performance of 13 photometric redshift code single value redshift estimates and redshift probability distributions (PDZs) on a common set of data, focusing particularly on the 0.2 − 2.6 redshift range that the Euclid mission will probe. We designed a challenge using emulated Euclid data drawn from three photometric surveys of the COSMOS field. The data was divided into two samples: one calibration sample for which photometry and redshifts were provided to the participants; and the validation sample, containing only the photometry to ensure a blinded test of the methods. Participants were invited to provide a redshift single value estimate and a PDZ for each source in the validation sample, along with a rejection flag that indicates the sources they consider unfit for use in cosmological analyses. The performance of each method was assessed through a set of informative metrics, using cross-matched spectroscopic and highly-accurate photometric redshifts as the ground truth. We show that the rejection criteria set by participants are efficient in removing strong outliers, that is to say sources for which the photo-z deviates by more than 0.15(1 + z) from the spectroscopic-redshift (spec-z). We also show that, while all methods are able to provide reliable single value estimates, several machine-learning methods do not manage to produce useful PDZs. We find that no machine-learning method provides good results in the regions of galaxy color-space that are sparsely populated by spectroscopic-redshifts, for example z > 1. However they generally perform better than template-fitting methods at low redshift (z < 0.7), indicating that template-fitting methods do not use all of the information contained in the photometry. We introduce metrics that quantify both photo-z precision and completeness of the samples (post-rejection), since both contribute to the final figure of merit of the science goals of the survey (e.g., cosmic shear from Euclid). Template-fitting methods provide the best results in these metrics, but we show that a combination of template-fitting results and machine-learning results with rejection criteria can outperform any individual method. On this basis, we argue that further work in identifying how to best select between machine-learning and template-fitting approaches for each individual galaxy should be pursued as a priority.

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Yashar Akrami1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, K. J. Andersen3  +173 moreInstitutions (56)
TL;DR: The NPIPE pipeline as mentioned in this paper produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and high frequency instrument (HFI) using high-performance computers.
Abstract: We present the NPIPE processing pipeline, which produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and High Frequency Instrument (HFI) using high-performance computers. NPIPE represents a natural evolution of previous Planck analysis efforts, and combines some of the most powerful features of the separate LFI and HFI analysis pipelines. For example, following the LFI 2018 processing procedure, NPIPE uses foreground polarization priors during the calibration stage in order to break scanning-induced degeneracies. Similarly, NPIPE employs the HFI 2018 time-domain processing methodology to correct for bandpass mismatch at all frequencies. In addition, NPIPE introduces several improvements, including, but not limited to: inclusion of the 8% of data collected during repointing manoeuvres; smoothing of the LFI reference load data streams; in-flight estimation of detector polarization parameters; and construction of maximally independent detector-set split maps. For component-separation purposes, important improvements include: maps that retain the CMB Solar dipole, allowing for high-precision relative calibration in higher-level analyses; well-defined single-detector maps, allowing for robust CO extraction; and HFI temperature maps between 217 and 857 GHz that are binned into 0′.9 pixels (N side = 4096), ensuring that the full angular information in the data is represented in the maps even at the highest Planck resolutions. The net effect of these improvements is lower levels of noise and systematics in both frequency and component maps at essentially all angular scales, as well as notably improved internal consistency between the various frequency channels. Based on the NPIPE maps, we present the first estimate of the Solar dipole determined through component separation across all nine Planck frequencies. The amplitude is (3366.6 ± 2.7) μ K, consistent with, albeit slightly higher than, earlier estimates. From the large-scale polarization data, we derive an updated estimate of the optical depth of reionization of τ = 0.051 ± 0.006, which appears robust with respect to data and sky cuts. There are 600 complete signal, noise and systematics simulations of the full-frequency and detector-set maps. As a Planck first, these simulations include full time-domain processing of the beam-convolved CMB anisotropies. The release of NPIPE maps and simulations is accompanied with a complete suite of raw and processed time-ordered data and the software, scripts, auxiliary data, and parameter files needed to improve further on the analysis and to run matching simulations.

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Yashar Akrami, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, Mario Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, Nicola Bartolo, Soumen Basak, K. Benabed, J.-P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, P. Bielewicz, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, Carlo Burigana, E. Calabrese, J.-F. Cardoso, B. Casaponsa, H. C. Chiang, C. Combet, D. Contreras, B. P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, P. de Bernardis, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, E. Di Valentino, Jose M. Diego, O. Doré, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, Torsten A. Enßlin, H. K. Eriksen, R. Fernandez-Cobos, Fabio Finelli, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, Andrei V. Frolov, S. Galeotta, Silvia Galli, K. Ganga, Ricardo Génova-Santos, Martina Gerbino, J. González-Nuevo, K. M. Górski, A. Gruppuso, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Will Handley, D. Herranz, E. Hivon, Zhiqi Huang, Andrew H. Jaffe, W. C. Jones, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, K. Kiiveri, J. B. Kim, Theodore Kisner, N. Krachmalnicoff, Martin Kunz, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, J.-M. Lamarre, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Charles R. Lawrence, M. Le Jeune, François Levrier, Michele Liguori, P. B. Lilje, V. Lindholm, M. López-Caniego, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Davide Maino, Nazzareno Mandolesi, A. Marcos-Caballero, Michele Maris, Pierrick Martin, E. Martínez-González, S. Matarrese, N. Mauri, Jason D. McEwen, A. Mennella, M. Migliaccio, D. Molinari, A. Moneti, L. Montier, Gianluca Morgante, A. Moss, Paolo Natoli, L. Pagano, D. Paoletti, F. Perrotta, Valeria Pettorino, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, Jörg P. Rachen, Martin Reinecke, Mathieu Remazeilles, A. Renzi, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, B. Ruiz-Granados, L. Salvati, M. Savelainen, Douglas Scott, Chiara Sirignano, G. Sirri, Locke D. Spencer, Raelyn M. Sullivan, R. A. Sunyaev, A.-S. Suur-Uski, J. A. Tauber, Daniele Tavagnacco, M. Tenti, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, T. Trombetti, J. Valiviita, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, F. Villa, Nicola Vittorio, I. K. Wehus, A. Zacchei, A. Zonca 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the first detection of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect in the tSZ maps and find that it is consistent with direct measurements of the CMB dipole.
Abstract: The largest temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the dipole, which has been measured with increasing accuracy for more than three decades, particularly with the Planck satellite. The simplest interpretation of the dipole is that it is due to our motion with respect to the rest frame of the CMB. Since current CMB experiments infer temperature anisotropies from angular intensity variations, the dipole modulates the temperature anisotropies with the same frequency dependence as the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. We present the first, and significant, detection of this signal in the tSZ maps and find that it is consistent with direct measurements of the CMB dipole, as expected. The signal contributes power in the tSZ maps, which is modulated in a quadrupolar pattern, and we estimate its contribution to the tSZ bispectrum, noting that it contributes negligible noise to the bispectrum at relevant scales.

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TL;DR: The European Space Agency (ESO) is a project of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERCG) as mentioned in this paper, which aims to support the development of space technologies.
Abstract: European Space Agency European Commission Academy of Finland European Commission Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Belgian Federal Science Policy Office Canadian Euclid Consortium Centre National D'etudes Spatiales Helmholtz Association German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Danish Space Research Institute Fundacao para a Cienca e a Tecnologia Spanish Government National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Netherlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie Norvegian Space Center Romanian Space Agency State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) at the Swiss Space Office (SSO) United Kingdom Space Agency ESO programme 199.A-0732 Helmholtz Association German Aerospace Centre (DLR) 50 QE 1101 Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities ESP2017-89838-C3-1-R H2020 programme of the European Commission 776247 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) European Commission PRIN MIUR 2015 "Cosmology and Fundamental Physics: Illuminating the Dark Universe with Euclid"

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P. Paykari1, Thomas D. Kitching1, Henk Hoekstra2, Ruyman Azzollini1  +148 moreInstitutions (45)
TL;DR: In this paper, an end-to-end approach that introduces sources of bias in a modelled weak lensing survey on a galaxy-by-galaxy level is presented.
Abstract: Aims. Our aim is to quantify the impact of systematic effects on the inference of cosmological parameters from cosmic shear. Methods. We present an “end-to-end” approach that introduces sources of bias in a modelled weak lensing survey on a galaxy-by-galaxy level. We propagated residual biases through a pipeline from galaxy properties at one end to cosmic shear power spectra and cosmological parameter estimates at the other end. We did this to quantify how imperfect knowledge of the pipeline changes the maximum likelihood values of dark energy parameters. Results. We quantify the impact of an imperfect correction for charge transfer inefficiency and modelling uncertainties of the point spread function for Euclid, and find that the biases introduced can be corrected to acceptable levels.

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TL;DR: In this paper, Andersen et al. implemented a complete end-to-end Bayesian analysis framework for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) observations, focusing in particular on low-l CMB polarization reconstruction, paying special attention to the LFI 44 GHz channel.
Abstract: Author(s): Collaboration, BeyondPlanck; Andersen, KJ; Aurlien, R; Banerji, R; Bersanelli, M; Bertocco, S; Brilenkov, M; Carbone, M; Colombo, LPL; Eriksen, HK; Eskilt, JR; Foss, MK; Franceschet, C; Fuskeland, U; Galeotta, S; Galloway, M; Gerakakis, S; Gjerlow, E; Hensley, B; Herman, D; Iacobellis, M; Ieronymaki, M; Ihle, HT; Jewell, JB; Karakci, A; Keihanen, E; Keskitalo, R; Maggio, G; Maino, D; Maris, M; Mennella, A; Paradiso, S; Partridge, B; Reinecke, M; San, M; Suur-Uski, A-S; Svalheim, TL; Tavagnacco, D; Thommesen, H; Watts, DJ; Wehus, IK; Zacchei, A | Abstract: We describe the BeyondPlanck project in terms of motivation, methodology and main products, and provide a guide to a set of companion papers that describe each result in fuller detail. Building directly on experience from ESA's Planck mission, we implement a complete end-to-end Bayesian analysis framework for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) observations. The primary product is a joint posterior distribution P(omega|d), where omega represents the set of all free instrumental (gain, correlated noise, bandpass etc.), astrophysical (synchrotron, free-free, thermal dust emission etc.), and cosmological (CMB map, power spectrum etc.) parameters. Some notable advantages of this approach are seamless end-to-end propagation of uncertainties; accurate modeling of both astrophysical and instrumental effects in the most natural basis for each uncertain quantity; optimized computational costs with little or no need for intermediate human interaction between various analysis steps; and a complete overview of the entire analysis process within one single framework. As a practical demonstration of this framework, we focus in particular on low-l CMB polarization reconstruction, paying special attention to the LFI 44 GHz channel. We find evidence of significant residual systematic effects that are still not accounted for in the current processing, but must be addressed in future work. These include a break-down of the 1/f correlated noise model at 30 and 44 GHz, and scan-aligned stripes in the Southern Galactic hemisphere at 44 GHz. On the Northern hemisphere, however, we find that all results are consistent with the LCDM model, and we constrain the reionization optical depth to tau = 0.067 +/- 0.016, with a low-resolution chi-squared probability-to-exceed of 16%. The marginal CMB dipole amplitude is 3359.5 +/- 1.9 uK. (Abridged.)

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Yashar Akrami1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, M. Ashdown4  +148 moreInstitutions (53)
TL;DR: The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway);
Abstract: The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and ERC and PRACE (EU). A description of the Planck Collaboration and a list of its members, indicating which technical or scientific activities they have been involved in, can be found at http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck/planck-collaboration. We acknowledge support from the ESTEC Faculty Research Project Programme.

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Yashar Akrami1, Yashar Akrami2, Yashar Akrami3, M. Ashdown4  +148 moreInstitutions (53)
TL;DR: In this article, an extension of the most recent version of the Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources (PCCS2), produced using a new multi-band Bayesian Extraction and Estimation Package (BeeP), is presented.
Abstract: We describe an extension of the most recent version of the Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources (PCCS2), produced using a new multi-band Bayesian Extraction and Estimation Package (BeeP). BeeP assumes that the compact sources present in PCCS2 at 857 GHz have a dust-like spectral energy distribution, which leads to emission at both lower and higher frequencies, and adjusts the parameters of the source and its SED to fit the emission observed in Planck's three highest frequency channels at 353, 545, and 857 GHz, as well as the IRIS map at 3000 GHz. In order to reduce confusion regarding diffuse cirrus emission, BeeP's data model includes a description of the background emission surrounding each source, and it adjusts the confidence in the source parameter extraction based on the statistical properties of the spatial distribution of the background emission. BeeP produces the following three new sets of parameters for each source: (a) fits to a modified blackbody (MBB) thermal emission model of the source; (b) SED-independent source flux densities at each frequency considered; and (c) fits to an MBB model of the background in which the source is embedded. BeeP also calculates, for each source, a reliability parameter, which takes into account confusion due to the surrounding cirrus. We define a high-reliability subset (BeeP/base), containing 26 083 sources (54.1 per cent of the total PCCS2 catalogue), the majority of which have no information on reliability in the PCCS2. The results of the BeeP extension of PCCS2, which are made publicly available via the PLA, will enable the study of the thermal properties of well-defined samples of compact Galactic and extra-galactic dusty sources.

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V. Guglielmo, Roberto P. Saglia, F. J. Castander, Audrey Galametz, S. Paltani, R. Bender, M. Bolzonella, Peter Capak, O. Ilbert, D. Masters, D. Stern, Stefano Andreon, Natalia Auricchio, A. Balaguera-Antolínez, Marco Baldi, S. Bardelli, Andrea Biviano, C. Bodendorf, D. Bonino, Enrico Bozzo, E. Branchini, S. Brau-Nogue, Massimo Brescia, Carlo Burigana, Remi A. Cabanac, Stefano Camera, V. Capobianco, A. Cappi, Carmelita Carbone, J. Carretero, C. S. Carvalho, Ricard Casas, S. Casas, Marco Castellano, Gianluca Castignani, Stefano Cavuoti, A. Cimatti, R. Cledassou, C. Colodro-Conde, G. Congedo, C. J. Conselice, L. Conversi, Y. Copin, Leonardo Corcione, Anne Costille, Jean Coupon, Hélène M. Courtois, Mark Cropper, A. Da Silva, S. de la Torre, D. Di Ferdinando, F. Dubath, C. A. J. Duncan, X. Dupac, S. Dusini, M. H. Fabricius, S. Farrens, Pedro G. Ferreira, Sotiria Fotopoulou, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, M. Fumana, S. Galeotta, B. Garilli, B. Gillis, C. Giocoli, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Javier Graciá-Carpio, Frank Grupp, Luigi Guzzo, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Henk Hoekstra, Felix Hormuth, H. Israel, Knud Jahnke, E. Keihänen, S. Kermiche, M. Kilbinger, C. C. Kirkpatrick, T. Kitching, B. Kubik, M. Kunz, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, R. J. Laureijs, Sebastiano Ligori, P. B. Lilje, I. Lloro, Davide Maino, Elisabetta Maiorano, Claudia Maraston, Ole Marggraf, N. Martinet, Federico Marulli, Richard Massey, S. Maurogordato, E. Medinaceli, Simona Mei, Massimo Meneghetti, R. Benton Metcalf, G. Meylan, Michele Moresco, L. Moscardini, E. Munari, R. Nakajima, C. Neissner, S. Niemi, A. A. Nucita, C. Padilla, Fabio Pasian, L. Patrizii, A. Pocino, M. Poncet, Lucia Pozzetti, F. Raison, A. Renzi, Jason Rhodes, Giuseppe Riccio, E. Romelli, Mauro Roncarelli, Emanuel Rossetti, Ariel G. Sánchez, Domenico Sapone, Peter Schneider, V. Scottez, A. Secroun, S. Serrano, Chiara Sirignano, G. Sirri, F. Sureau, P. Tallada-Crespí, Daniele Tavagnacco, Andy Taylor, M. Tenti, Ismael Tereno, Rafael Toledo-Moreo, F. Torradeflot, Andrea Tramacere, Luca Valenziano, T. Vassallo, Yu Wang, Niraj Welikala, M. Wetzstein, L. Whittaker, A. Zacchei, G. Zamorani, Julien Zoubian, E. Zucca 
TL;DR: The Complete Calibration of the Colour-Redshift Relation survey (C3R2) is a spectroscopic effort involving ESO and Keck facilities designed to empirically calibrate the galaxy color-redshift relation -P(z|C) to the Euclid depth (i_AB=245) and is intimately linked to upcoming Stage IV dark energy missions based on weak lensing cosmology.
Abstract: The Complete Calibration of the Colour-Redshift Relation survey (C3R2) is a spectroscopic effort involving ESO and Keck facilities designed to empirically calibrate the galaxy colour-redshift relation - P(z|C) to the Euclid depth (i_AB=245) and is intimately linked to upcoming Stage IV dark energy missions based on weak lensing cosmology The aim is to build a spectroscopic calibration sample that is as representative as possible of the galaxies of the Euclid weak lensing sample In order to minimise the number of spectroscopic observations to fill the gaps in current knowledge of the P(z|C), self-organising map (SOM) representations of the galaxy colour space have been constructed Here we present the first results of an ESO@ VLT Large Programme approved in the context of C3R2, which makes use of the two VLT optical and near-infrared multi-object spectrographs, FORS2 and KMOS This paper focuses on high-quality spectroscopic redshifts of high-z galaxies observed with the KMOS spectrograph in the H- and K-bands A total of 424 highly-reliable z are measured in the 13 2 galaxies

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TL;DR: The conceptual advantages of the Gibbs sampling approach lies in statistically well-defined error propagation and systematic error correction, and this methodology forms the conceptual basis for the map-making algorithm employed in the BeyondPlanck framework, which implements the first end-to-end Bayesian analysis pipeline for CMB observations.
Abstract: We present a Gibbs sampling solution to the map-making problem for CMB measurements, building on existing destriping methodology. Gibbs sampling breaks the computationally heavy destriping problem into two separate steps; noise filtering and map binning. Considered as two separate steps, both are computationally much cheaper than solving the combined problem. This provides a huge performance benefit as compared to traditional methods, and allows us for the first time to bring the destriping baseline length to a single sample. We apply the Gibbs procedure to simulated Planck 30 GHz data. We find that gaps in the time-ordered data are handled efficiently by filling them with simulated noise as part of the Gibbs process. The Gibbs procedure yields a chain of map samples, from which we may compute the posterior mean as a best-estimate map. The variation in the chain provides information on the correlated residual noise, without need to construct a full noise covariance matrix. However, if only a single maximum-likelihood frequency map estimate is required, we find that traditional conjugate gradient solvers converge much faster than a Gibbs sampler in terms of total number of iterations. The conceptual advantages of the Gibbs sampling approach lies in statistically well-defined error propagation and systematic error correction, and this methodology forms the conceptual basis for the map-making algorithm employed in the BeyondPlanck framework, which implements the first end-to-end Bayesian analysis pipeline for CMB observations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine full-resolution Planck LFI time-ordered data with low-resolution WMAP sky maps at 33, 40 and 61GHz to constrain polarized foreground emission between 30 and 70GHz with the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and WMAP data within the framework of BeyondPlanck global Bayesian analysis.
Abstract: We constrain polarized foreground emission between 30 and 70GHz with the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and WMAP data within the framework of BeyondPlanck global Bayesian analysis. We combine for the first time full-resolution Planck LFI time-ordered data with low-resolution WMAP sky maps at 33, 40 and 61GHz. Spectral parameters are fit with a likelihood defined at the native resolution of each frequency channel. This analysis represents the first implementation of true multi-resolution component separation applied to CMB observations for both amplitude and spectral energy distribution (SED) parameters. For synchrotron emission, we approximate the SED as a power-law in frequency and find that the low signal-to-noise ratio of the data set strongly limits the number of free parameters that may be robustly constrained. We partition the sky into four large disjoint regions (High Latitude; Galactic Spur; Galactic Plane; and Galactic Center), each associated with its own power-law index. We find that the High Latitude region is prior-dominated, while the Galactic Center region is contaminated by residual instrumental systematics. The two remaining regions appear to be both signal-dominated and clean of systematics, and for these we derive spectral indices of $\beta_{\mathrm s}^{\mathrm{Spur}}=-3.15\pm0.07$ and $\beta_{\mathrm s}^{\mathrm{Plane}}=-3.12\pm0.06$. This agrees qualitatively with the WMAP-only polarization constraints presented by Dunkley et al. (2009), but contrasts with several temperature-based analyses. For thermal dust emission we assume a modified blackbody model and we fit the power-law index across the full sky. We find $\beta_{\mathrm{d}}=1.62\pm0.04$, which is slightly steeper than that previously reported from Planck HFI data, but still statistically consistent at a 2$\sigma$ confidence level.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented new estimates of the brightness temperatures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune based on the measurements carried in 2009-2013 by PLANCK/LFI at 30, 44, and 70 GHz and released to the public in 2018.
Abstract: We present new estimates of the brightness temperatures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune based on the measurements carried in 2009--2013 by PLANCK/LFI at 30, 44, and 70 GHz and released to the public in 2018. This work extends the results presented in the 2013 and 2015 PLANCK/LFI Calibration Papers, based on the data acquired in 2009--2011. PLANCK observed each planet up to eight times during the nominal mission. We processed time-ordered data from the 22 LFI radiometers to derive planet antenna temperatures for each planet and transit. We accounted for the beam shape, radiometer bandpasses, and several systematic effects. We compared our results with the results from the ninth year of WMAP, PLANCK/HFI observations, and existing data and models for planetary microwave emissivity. For Jupiter, we obtain Tb = 144.9, 159.8, 170.5 K (+/- 0.2 K at 1 sigma, with temperatures expressed using the Rayleigh-Jeans scale) at 30, 44 and 70 GHz, respectively, or equivalently a band averaged Planck temperature TbBA=144.7$, 160.3, 171.2 K in good agreement with WMAP and existing models. A slight excess at 30 GHz with respect to models is interpreted as an effect of synchrotron emission. Our measures for Saturn agree with the results from WMAP for rings Tb = 9.2 +/- 1.4, 12.6 +/- 2.3, 16.2 +/- 0.8 K, while for the disc we obtain Tb = 140.0 +/- 1.4, 147.2 +/- 1.2, 150.2 +/- 0.4 K, or equivalently a TbBA=139.7, 147.8, 151.0 K. Our measures for Uranus (Tb = 152 +/- 6, 145 +/- 3, 132.0 +/- 2 K, or TbBA=152, 145, 133 K and Neptune Tb = 154 +/- 11, 148 +/- 9, 128 +/- 3 K, or TbBA=154 , 149, 128 K) agree closely with WMAP and previous data in literature.

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P. Paykari, T. Kitching, Henk Hoekstra, Ruyman Azzollini, V. F. Cardone, Mark Cropper, C. A. J. Duncan, Arun Kannawadi, L. Miller, H. Aussel, Ian Fenech Conti, Natalia Auricchio, Marco Baldi, S. Bardelli, Andrea Biviano, D. Bonino, E. Borsato, Enrico Bozzo, E. Branchini, S. Brau-Nogue, Massimo Brescia, Jarle Brinchmann, Carlo Burigana, Stefano Camera, V. Capobianco, Carmelita Carbone, J. Carretero, S. Casas, F. J. Castander, Marco Castellano, Stefano Cavuoti, Y. Charles, R. Cledassou, C. Colodro-Conde, G. Congedo, C. J. Conselice, L. Conversi, Y. Copin, Jean Coupon, Hélène M. Courtois, A. Da Silva, X. Dupac, Giulio Fabbian, S. Farrens, Pedro G. Ferreira, P. Fosalba, N. Fourmanoit, M. Frailis, M. Fumana, S. Galeotta, B. Garilli, W. Gillard, B. Gillis, C. Giocoli, Javier Graciá-Carpio, Frank Grupp, Felix Hormuth, S. Ilić, H. Israel, Knud Jahnke, E. Keihänen, S. Kermiche, M. Kilbinger, C. C. Kirkpatrick, B. Kubik, M. Kunz, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, F. Lacasa, R. J. Laureijs, D. Le Mignant, Sebastiano Ligori, P. B. Lilje, I. Lloro, Thierry Maciaszek, Elisabetta Maiorano, Ole Marggraf, K. Markovic, M. Martinelli, N. Martinet, Federico Marulli, Richard Massey, N. Mauri, E. Medinaceli, Simona Mei, Yannick Mellier, Massimo Meneghetti, R. B. Metcalf, Michele Moresco, L. Moscardini, E. Munari, C. Neissner, Robert C. Nichol, S. Niemi, T. Nutma, C. Padilla, S. Paltani, Fabio Pasian, V. Pettorino, S. Pires, G. Polenta, Alkistis Pourtsidou, F. Raison, A. Renzi, Jason Rhodes, E. Romelli, Mauro Roncarelli, Emanuel Rossetti, R. P. Saglia, Z. Sakr, Ariel G. Sánchez, Domenico Sapone, R. Scaramella, Peter Schneider, Tim Schrabback, V. Scottez, A. Secroun, S. Serrano, Chiara Sirignano, G. Sirri, L. Stanco, Jean-Luc Starck, F. Sureau, P. Tallada-Crespí, Angela C. Taylor, M. Tenti, Ismael Tereno, Rafael Toledo-Moreo, F. Torradeflot, Isaac Tutusaus, Luca Valenziano, Martin Vannier, T. Vassallo, Julien Zoubian, E. Zucca 
TL;DR: In this paper, the Euclid wide survey was used to estimate the yield of 7 < z < 9 quasars from Euclid OY JH photometry alone, but selection over the redshift interval 7 < 6 < 8 is greatly improved by the addition of z-band data from, e.g., Pan-STARRS and LSST.
Abstract: We provide predictions of the yield of 7 < z < 9 quasars from the Euclid wide survey, updating the calculation presented in the Euclid Red Book in several ways. We account for revisions to the Euclid near-infrared filter wavelengths; we adopt steeper rates of decline of the quasar luminosity function (QLF; Φ) with redshift, Φ ∝ 10k(z−6), k = −0.72, and a further steeper rate of decline, k = −0.92; we use better models of the contaminating populations (MLT dwarfs and compact early-type galaxies); and we make use of an improved Bayesian selection method, compared to the colour cuts used for the Red Book calculation, allowing the identification of fainter quasars, down to JAB ∼ 23. Quasars at z > 8 may be selected from Euclid OY JH photometry alone, but selection over the redshift interval 7 < z < 8 is greatly improved by the addition of z-band data from, e.g., Pan-STARRS and LSST. We calculate predicted quasar yields for the assumed values of the rate of decline of the QLF beyond z = 6. If the decline of the QLF accelerates beyond z = 6, with k = −0.92, Euclid should nevertheless find over 100 quasars with 7.0 < z < 7.5, and ∼25 quasars beyond the current record of z = 7.5, including ∼8 beyond z = 8.0. The first Euclid quasars at z > 7.5 should be found in the DR1 data release, expected in 2024. It will be possible to determine the bright-end slope of the QLF, 7 < z < 8, M1450 < −25, using 8 m class telescopes to confirm candidates, but follow-up with JWST or E-ELT will be required to measure the faint-end slope. Contamination of the candidate lists is predicted to be modest even at JAB ∼ 23. The precision with which k can be determined over 7 < z < 8 depends on the value of k, but assuming k = −0.72 it can be measured to a 1σ uncertainty of 0.07.