19 research outputs found
Planck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation
We analyse the implications of the Planck data for cosmic inflation. The Planck nominal mission temperature anisotropy measurements, combined with the WMAP large-angle polarization, constrain the scalar spectral index to be ns = 0:9603 _ 0:0073, ruling out exact scale invariance at over 5_: Planck establishes an upper bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio of r < 0:11 (95% CL). The Planck data thus shrink the space of allowed standard inflationary models, preferring potentials with V00 < 0. Exponential potential models, the simplest hybrid inflationary models, and monomial potential models of degree n _ 2 do not provide a good fit to the data. Planck does not find statistically significant running of the scalar spectral index, obtaining dns=dln k = 0:0134 _ 0:0090. We verify these conclusions through a numerical analysis, which makes no slowroll approximation, and carry out a Bayesian parameter estimation and model-selection analysis for a number of inflationary models including monomial, natural, and hilltop potentials. For each model, we present the Planck constraints on the parameters of the potential and explore several possibilities for the post-inflationary entropy generation epoch, thus obtaining nontrivial data-driven constraints. We also present a direct reconstruction of the observable range of the inflaton potential. Unless a quartic term is allowed in the potential, we find results consistent with second-order slow-roll predictions. We also investigate whether the primordial power spectrum contains any features. We find that models with a parameterized oscillatory feature improve the fit by __2 e_ _ 10; however, Bayesian evidence does not prefer these models. We constrain several single-field inflation models with generalized Lagrangians by combining power spectrum data with Planck bounds on fNL. Planck constrains with unprecedented accuracy the amplitude and possible correlation (with the adiabatic mode) of non-decaying isocurvature fluctuations. The fractional primordial contributions of cold dark matter (CDM) isocurvature modes of the types expected in the curvaton and axion scenarios have upper bounds of 0.25% and 3.9% (95% CL), respectively. In models with arbitrarily correlated CDM or neutrino isocurvature modes, an anticorrelated isocurvature component can improve the _2 e_ by approximately 4 as a result of slightly lowering the theoretical prediction for the ` <_ 40 multipoles relative to the higher multipoles. Nonetheless, the data are consistent with adiabatic initial conditions
Planck 2013 results. VI. High Frequency Instrument data processing
We describe the processing of the 531 billion raw data samples from the High Frequency Instrument (hereafter HFI), which we performed to produce six temperature maps from the first 473 days of Planck-HFI survey data. These maps provide an accurate rendition of the sky emission at 100, 143, 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz with an angular resolution ranging from 9.7 to 4.6 arcmin. The detector noise per (effective) beam solid angle is respectively, 10, 6, 12 and 39 microKelvin in HFI four lowest frequency channel (100--353 GHz) and 13 and 14 kJy/sr for the 545 and 857 GHz channels. Using the 143 GHz channel as a reference, these two high frequency channels are intercalibrated within 5% and the 353 GHz relative calibration is at the percent level. The 100 and 217 GHz channels, which together with the 143 GHz channel determine the high-multipole part of the CMB power spectrum (50 < l <2500), are intercalibrated at better than 0.2 %
Planck 2013 results. III. LFI systematic uncertainties
We present the current estimate of instrumental and systematic effect
uncertainties for the Planck-Low Frequency Instrument relevant to the first
release of the Planck cosmological results. We give an overview of the main
effects and of the tools and methods applied to assess residuals in maps and
power spectra. We also present an overall budget of known systematic effect
uncertainties, which are dominated sidelobe straylight pick-up and imperfect
calibration. However, even these two effects are at least two orders of
magnitude weaker than the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations as
measured in terms of the angular temperature power spectrum. A residual signal
above the noise level is present in the multipole range , most notably
at 30 GHz, and is likely caused by residual Galactic straylight contamination.
Current analysis aims to further reduce the level of spurious signals in the
data and to improve the systematic effects modelling, in particular with
respect to straylight and calibration uncertainties.Comment: Accepted for publication by A&
Planck 2013 results X. Energetic particle effects: characterization, removal, and simulation
This paper presents the detection, interpretation and removal of the signal
resulting from interactions of high energy particles with the Planck High
Frequency Instrument (HFI). These interactions fall into two categories,
heating the 0.1 K bolometer plate and glitches in each detector time stream.
Glitch shapes are not simple single pole exponential decays and fall into a
three families. The glitch shape for each family has been characterized
empirically in flight data and removed from the detector time streams. The
spectrum of the count rate/unit energy is computed for each family and a
correspondence to where on the detector the particle hit is made. Most of the
detected glitches are from galactic protons incident on the Si die frame
supporting the micromachined bolometric detectors. At HFI, the particle flux is
~ 5 per square cm and per second and is dominated by protons incident on the
spacecraft with an energy >39 MeV, leading to a rate of typically one event per
second and per detector. Different categories of glitches have different
signature in timestreams. Two of the glitch types have a low amplitude
component that decays over nearly 1 second. This component produces an excess
noise if not properly removed from the time ordered data. We have used a glitch
detection and subtraction method based on the joint fit of population
templates. The application of this novel glitch removal method removes excess
noise from glitches. Using realistic simulations, we find this method does not
introduce signal bias.Comment: 23 pages; v2: author list complete
Planck 2013 results. IX. HFI spectral response
The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) spectral response was determined
through a series of ground based tests conducted with the HFI focal plane in a
cryogenic environment prior to launch. The main goal of the spectral
transmission tests was to measure the relative spectral response (including
out-of-band signal rejection) of all HFI detectors. This was determined by
measuring the output of a continuously scanned Fourier transform spectrometer
coupled with all HFI detectors. As there is no on-board spectrometer within
HFI, the ground-based spectral response experiments provide the definitive data
set for the relative spectral calibration of the HFI. The spectral response of
the HFI is used in Planck data analysis and component separation, this includes
extraction of CO emission observed within Planck bands, dust emission,
Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources, and intensity to polarization leakage. The HFI
spectral response data have also been used to provide unit conversion and
colour correction analysis tools. Verifications of the HFI spectral response
data are provided through comparisons with photometric HFI flight data. This
validation includes use of HFI zodiacal emission observations to demonstrate
out-of-band spectral signal rejection better than 10^8. The accuracy of the HFI
relative spectral response data is verified through comparison with
complementary flight-data based unit conversion coefficients and colour
correction coefficients. These coefficients include those based upon HFI
observations of CO, dust, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich emission. General agreement is
observed between the ground-based spectral characterization of HFI and
corresponding in-flight observations, within the quoted uncertainty of each;
explanations are provided for any discrepancies.Comment: 27 pages, 28 figures, one of the papers associated with the 2013
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Planck 2013 results. XX. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts
We present constraints on cosmological parameters using number counts as a
function of redshift for a sub-sample of 189 galaxy clusters from the Planck SZ
(PSZ) catalogue. The PSZ is selected through the signature of the
Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect, and the sub-sample used here has a
signal-to-noise threshold of seven, with each object confirmed as a cluster and
all but one with a redshift estimate. We discuss the completeness of the sample
and our construction of a likelihood analysis. Using a relation between mass
and SZ signal calibrated to X-ray measurements, we derive constraints
on the power spectrum amplitude and matter density parameter
in a flat CDM model. We test the robustness of
our estimates and find that possible biases in the -- relation and the
halo mass function are larger than the statistical uncertainties from the
cluster sample. Assuming the X-ray determined mass to be biased low relative to
the true mass by between zero and 30%, motivated by comparison of the observed
mass scaling relations to those from a set of numerical simulations, we find
that , , and
. The value of
is degenerate with the mass bias; if the latter is fixed to a value
of 20% we find and a
tighter one-dimensional range . We find that the larger
values of and preferred by Planck's
measurements of the primary CMB anisotropies can be accommodated by a mass bias
of about 40%. Alternatively, consistency with the primary CMB constraints can
be achieved by inclusion of processes that suppress power on small scales
relative to the CDM model, such as a component of massive neutrinos
(abridged).Comment: 20 pages, accepted for publication by A&
Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission
This paper presents an all-sky model of dust emission from the Planck 353, 545, and 857 GHz, and IRAS 100 \u3bcm data. Using a modified blackbody fit to the data we present all-sky maps of the dust optical depth, temperature, and spectral index over the 353-3000 GHz range. This model is a good representation of the IRAS and Planck data at 5\u2032 between 353 and 3000 GHz (850 and 100 \u3bcm). It shows variations of the order of 30% compared with the widely-used model of Finkbeiner, Davis, and Schlegel. The Planck data allow us to estimate the dust temperature uniformly over the whole sky, down to an angular resolution of 5\u2032, providing an improved estimate of the dust optical depth compared to previous all-sky dust model, especially in high-contrast molecular regions where the dust temperature varies strongly at small scales in response to dust evolution, extinction, and/or local production of heating photons. An increase of the dust opacity at 353 GHz, \u3c4353/NH, from the diffuse to the denser interstellar medium (ISM) is reported. It is associated with a decrease in the observed dust temperature, Tobs, that could be due at least in part to the increased dust opacity. We also report an excess of dust emission at H i column densities lower than 1020 cm-2 that could be the signature of dust in the warm ionized medium. In the diffuse ISM at high Galactic latitude, we report an anticorrelation between \u3c4353/NH and Tobs while the dust specific luminosity, i.e., the total dust emission integrated over frequency (the radiance) per hydrogen atom, stays about constant, confirming one of the Planck Early Results obtained on selected fields. This effect is compatible with the view that, in the diffuse ISM, Tobs responds to spatial variations of the dust opacity, due to variations of dust properties, in addition to (small) variations of the radiation field strength. The implication is that in the diffuse high-latitude ISM \u3c4353 is not as reliable a tracer of dust column density as we conclude it is in molecular clouds where the correlation of \u3c4353 with dust extinction estimated using colour excess measurements on stars is strong. To estimate Galactic E(B-V) in extragalactic fields at high latitude we develop a new method based on the thermal dust radiance, instead of the dust optical depth, calibrated to E(B-V) using reddening measurements of quasars deduced from Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. \ua9 2014 ESO
Planck 2013 results. XXIX. Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources
We describe the all-sky Planck catalogue of clusters and cluster candidates derived from Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect detections using the first 15.5 months of Planck satellite observations. The catalogue contains 1227 entries, making it over six times the size of the Planck Early SZ (ESZ) sample and the largest SZ-selected catalogue to date. It contains 861 confirmed clusters, of which 178 have been confirmed as clusters, mostly through follow-up observations, and a further 683 are previously-known clusters. The remaining 366 have the status of cluster candidates, and we divide them into three classes according to the quality of evidence that they are likely to be true clusters. The Planck SZ catalogue is the deepest all-sky cluster catalogue, with redshifts up to about one, and spans the broadest cluster mass range from (0.1 to 1.6) × 1015 M⊙. Confirmation of cluster candidates through comparison with existing surveys or cluster catalogues is extensively described, as is the statistical characterization of the catalogue in terms of completeness and statistical reliability. The outputs of the validation process are provided as additional information. This gives, in particular, an ensemble of 813 cluster redshifts, and for all these Planck clusters we also include a mass estimated from a newly-proposed SZ-mass proxy. A refined measure of the SZ Compton parameter for the clusters with X-ray counter-parts is provided, as is an X-ray flux for all the Planck clusters not previously detected in X-ray surveys.The development of Planck has been supported by: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MICINN and JA (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 PRACE (EU).Peer Reviewe