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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. Its performance is well in line with expectations, and it will continue to gather scientific data until the end of its cryogenic lifetime. We give an overview of the history of Planck in its first year of operations, and describe some of the key performance aspects of the satellite. This paper is part of a package submitted in conjunction with Planck’s Early Release Compact Source Catalogue, the first data product based on Planck to be released publicly. The package describes the scientific performance of the Planck payload, and presents results on a variety of astrophysical topics related to the sources included in the Catalogue, as well as selected topics on diffuse emission.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© ESO 2011 The original publication is available at DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201116464
Keywords:	cosmology; observations; cosmic background radiation; surveys; space vehicles; instruments; instrumentation; detectors; Planck Collaboration;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Experimental Physics
Item ID:	4320
Depositing User:	Dr. Anthony Murphy
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2013 15:16
Journal or Publication Title:	Astronomy & Astrophysics
Publisher:	EDP Sciences
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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