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the most accurate maps of the CMB and astrophysical foregrounds between us and the CMB. Measuring the temperature and polarization fluctuations of the CMB provides valuable clues about the way the Universe was born and when the first stars and galaxies formed. Data from the Planck mission continues to be widely used to further understand our Universe. Planck was led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from multiple EU countries and with significant NASA involvement.' property='og:description'> <!-- This indicates to Google which image to use for homepage. 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src="/system/activities/images/55/large/Planck_and_the_Cosmic_microwave_background.jpg?1565396303" /> <div class='container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-12'> <div class='project_page_title'> <h1 class='page_title'> Planck </h1> <h4 class='page_title full_name'> U.S. Planck Data Center </h4> </div> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='container offset_container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-12'> <div class='content_box'> <div class='abstract_box'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-9'> <div class='abstract'> <p> <strong> Overview: </strong> Planck was a third-generation space mission whose primary goal was to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the remnant radiation from the Big Bang. Between Aug 2009 to Oct 2013, Planck took data in the 30-850 GHz frequency range. Its two instruments LFI & HFI provided the most accurate maps of the CMB and astrophysical foregrounds between us and the CMB. Measuring the temperature and polarization fluctuations of the CMB provides valuable clues about the way the Universe was born and when the first stars and galaxies formed. Data from the Planck mission continues to be widely used to further understand our Universe. Planck was led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from multiple EU countries and with significant NASA involvement. </p> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-3'> <div class='related_links'> <dl> <div class='sidebar_title'> Links </div> <dd> <a href="https://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/" target="_ipac"> U.S. Planck Data Center Homepage <i class='fa fa-external-link'></i> </a></dd> <dd> <a href="http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/planck.html" target="_ipac">Planck Data at IPAC <i class='fa fa-external-link'></i> </a></dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-9'> <div class='raw body_box'> <p dir="ltr"> <strong>Planck at IPAC</strong></p> <p dir="ltr"> The U.S. team at IPAC was responsible for the generation of the Early Release Compact Source Catalog (ERCSC), the first public data product from the mission which presented the different classes of CMB foreground sources. IPAC also serves as the U.S. Planck Data Center, hosted at NASA's Infrared Science Archive (IRSA). IPAC engineers and scientists were responsible for retrieving mission data from the Planck Data Processing Centers (in Paris, France and Trieste, Italy), staging data for usage by Planck team members, and ultimately for archival research by the astronomical community. U.S. team members were also closely involved with LFI and HFI instrument characterization, with the science working groups such as those dealing with Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds to the CMB, and with data processing steps crucial to the cosmological data analysis. IPAC scientists have led several exciting scientific studies using Planck data. <br /> </p> <p dir="ltr"> <strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b5ef324-d59c-3a02-236f-019feef9fc90">Related publications:</span></strong><br /> <br /> 1. <a href="http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2016ApJ...817...33C">Discovery of spectral anomalies in the cosmic microwave background which can be attributed to collisions with alternate universes with different physical properties</a><br /> R. Chary 2016, ApJ, 817, 33</p> <p dir="ltr"> See also <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck16-001">Press Release</a></p> <p dir="ltr"> <br /> 2. <a href="http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2016MNRAS.458.3619C">Discovery of high Galactic latitude molecular cloud clumps which can account for up to 2000 solar masses of molecular gas</a><br /> X. Chen et al. 2016, MNRAS, 458, 3619 </p> <p dir="ltr"> <br /> 3. Identifying the largest, most massive galaxy clusters at z~0.5 by leveraging the high spatial resolution of Caltech’s CARMA millimeter array, WISE data and Planck detections of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect; <a href="http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2015MNRAS.447..902R">C. Rodriguez-Gonzalvez et al., 2015, MNRAS, 447, 902</a>; <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.464.2378R">C. Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, et al., 2017, MNRAS, 464, 2378</a></p> <p dir="ltr"> 4. <a href="http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2011A%26A...536A...7P">Detection and characterization of different classes of foreground compact sources to the cosmic microwave background</a><br /> Planck Collaboration 2013, A&A, 536, 7</p> <p dir="ltr"> See also <a href="http://sci.esa.int/planck/48201-planck-s-first-science-results-and-the-release-of-an-extensive-compact-source-catalogue/">Press Release</a></p> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-3'> <div class='raw side_bar_box'> <p> <b>Other links:</b></p> <p> Planck at <a href="https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/planck.html" target="_blank">IRSA</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='fluid_box news_box'> <div class='container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-12'> <h4> Mission News </h4> </div> </div> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck18-001" target="_IPAC_planck"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Planck18-001_tn" src="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/system/news_items/images/18/original/planck18-001_Tn.jpg?1526073074" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Planck Team Awarded 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Feature • May 11th, 2018 </p> <p> The Planck team and its leaders Nazzareno Mandolesi and Jean-Loup Puget were awarded the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize,... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck16-003" target="_IPAC_planck"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Planck16-003_tn" src="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/system/news_items/images/17/original/planck16-003_Tn.jpg?1472676818" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Planck: First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Feature • August 31st, 2016 </p> <p> ESA's Planck satellite, a mission with significant participation from NASA, has revealed that the first stars in the... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck16-001" target="_IPAC_planck"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Planck16-001_tn" src="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/system/news_items/images/16/original/planck16-001_Tn.jpg?1456164142" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Looking Within Our Universe For Something Beyond </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Feature • February 22nd, 2016 </p> <p> Do multiple universes really exist? Scientists continue to debate the concept and come up with new theories. </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck15-004" target="_IPAC_planck"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Planck2015-004_tn" src="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/system/news_items/images/15/original/planck2015-004_Tn.jpg?1441322882" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Herschel and Planck Honored with Space Systems Award </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Feature • September 3rd, 2015 </p> <p> The Herschel and Planck project teams are this year's recipients of the American Institute of Aeronautics and... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck15-003" target="_IPAC_planck"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Planck15-003_tn" src="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/system/news_items/images/14/original/planck15-003_Tn.jpg?1427823472" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> A Gold Mine of Galaxy Nuggets </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Feature • March 31st, 2015 </p> <p> Astronomers mine data from the Planck and Herschel missions to find a treasure chest of galaxy clusters. </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news/planck15-002" target="_IPAC_planck"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Planck15-002_tn" src="http://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/system/news_items/images/13/original/planck15-002_Tn.jpg?1423106805" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Planck Mission Explores the History of Our Universe </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> News Release • February 5th, 2015 </p> <p> New data from Planck are helping scientists better understand the history and fabric of our universe, as well as our... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-12'> <a href="https://planck.ipac.caltech.edu/news" class="more_link" target="_IPAC_planck">More Mission News <i class='fa fa-chevron-right'></i> </a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='footer_box'> <div class='container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='footer_group affiliates'> <a href="http://www.ipac.caltech.edu" alt="Infrared Processing and Analysis Center" title="Infrared Processing and Analysis Center"><img alt="Ipac" src="/assets/ipac-4c1a46bd7efc14226bcc882880fc2871.png" /></a> <a href="http://www.caltech.edu" alt="California Institute of Technology" title="California Institute of Technology"><img alt="Caltech" src="/assets/caltech-8ad9780e54d034d665af4a3dbd37d62c.png" /></a> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-8 footer_wrapper'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-xs-6 col-md-3'> <div class='footer_group'> <p class='list_header'> Policies </p> <ul class='page_links'> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/image-use-policy">Image Use Policy</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class='col-xs-6 col-md-3'> <div class='footer_group'> <p class='list_header'> Get in Touch </p> <ul class='page_links'> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/contact#visitor-information">Visit IPAC</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/contact">Contact Us</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/staff">People</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/opportunities">Job Opportunities</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class='col-xs-6 col-md-3'> <div class='footer_group'> <p class='list_header'> Stay in Touch </p> <ul class='page_links'> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/caltechipac/">Facebook</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/caltechipac">Twitter</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script> //<![CDATA[ (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-35868239-14', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); //]]> </script> <script src="/assets/application-dd3d068431ffda3da184aa851ca157d3.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html>