S. Galeotta

TL;DR: The European Space Agency's Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009 as discussed by the authors, and it will continue to gather scientific data until the end of its cryogenic lifetime.

TL;DR: In this paper, the identification, modelling, and removal of previously unexplained systematic effects in the polarization data of the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on large angular scales, including new mapmaking and calibration procedures, new and more complete end-to-end simulations, and a set of robust internal consistency checks on the resulting maps.

TL;DR: The Planck nominal mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps yield unprecedented constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG) using three optimal bispectrum estimators, separable template-fitting (KSW), binned, and modal as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and find that the universe is ionized at less than the 10% level at redshifts above z~10.

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.