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1. First light of BEaTriX, the new testing facility for the modular X-ray optics of the ATHENA mission

Author: S. Basso, B. Salmaso, D. Spiga, M. Ghigo, G. Vecchi, G. Sironi, V. Cotroneo, P. Conconi, E. Redaelli, A. Bianco, G. Pareschi, G. Tagliaferri, D. Sisana, C. Pelliciari, M. Fiorini, S. Incorvaia, M. Uslenghi, L. Paoletti, C. Ferrari, R. Lolli, A. Zappettini, M. Sanchez del Rio, G. Parodi, V. Burwitz, S. Rukdee, G. Hartner, T. Müller, T. Schmidt, A. Langmeier, D. Della Monica Ferreira, S. Massahi, N. C. Gellert, F. Christensen, M. Bavdaz, I. Ferreira, M. Collon, G. Vacanti, N. M. Barrière, ITA, DEU, DNK, and NLD
Subjects: instruments [Space vehicles], high angular resolution [Instrumentation], Space and Planetary Science, general [X-rays], FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, miscellaneous [Instrumentation], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: The Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility (BEaTriX) is a unique X-ray apparatus now operated at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), in Merate, Italy. It has been specifically designed to measure the point spread function (PSF) and the effective area (EA) of the X-ray mirror modules (MMs) of the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (ATHENA), based on silicon pore optics (SPO) technology, for verification before integration into the mirror assembly. To this end, BEaTriX generates a broad, uniform, monochromatic, and collimated X-ray beam at 4.51 keV. [...] In BEaTriX, a micro-focus X-ray source with a titanium anode is placed in the focus of a paraboloidal mirror, which generates a parallel beam. A crystal monochromator selects the 4.51 keV line, which is expanded to the final size by a crystal asymmetrically cut with respect to the crystalline planes. [...] After characterization, the BEaTriX beam has the nominal dimensions of 170 mm x 60 mm, with a vertical divergence of 1.65 arcsec and a horizontal divergence varying between 2.7 and 3.45 arcsec, depending on the monochromator setting: either high collimation or high intensity. The flux per area unit varies from 10 to 50 photons/s/cm2 from one configuration to the other. The BEaTriX beam performance was tested using an SPO MM, whose entrance pupil was fully illuminated by the expanded beam, and its focus was directly imaged onto the camera. The first light test returned a PSF and an EA in full agreement with expectations. As of today, the 4.51 keV beamline of BEaTriX is operational and can characterize modular X-ray optics, measuring their PSF and EA with a typical exposure of 30 minutes. [...] We expect BEaTriX to be a crucial facility for the functional test of modular X-ray optics, such as the SPO MMs for ATHENA., Accepted on 29 June 2022 for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Sect. 13, Astronomical instrumentation of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Version after language correction
Published: 2022

2. Implications from secondary emission from neutral impact on Cassini plasma and dust measurements

Author: F L Johansson, E Vigren, J H Waite, K Miller, A I Eriksson, N J T Edberg, and J Dreyer
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), instruments [space vehicles], observational [methods], FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, atmospheres [planets and satellites], plasmas, Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics, Space Physics (physics.space-ph), Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik, Physics - Space Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, data analysis [methods], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the role of secondary electron and ion emission from impact of gas molecules on the Cassini Langmuir Probe (RPWS-LP, or LP) measurements in the ionosphere of Saturn. We add a model of the emission currents, based on laboratory measurements and data from comet 1P/Halley, to the equations used to derive plasma parameters from LP bias voltage sweeps. Reanalysing several hundred sweeps from the Cassini Grand Finale orbits, we find reasonable explanations for three open conundrums from previous LP studies of the Saturn ionosphere. We find an explanation for the observed positive charging of the Cassini spacecraft, the possibly overestimated ionospheric electron temperatures, and the excess ion current reported. For the sweeps analysed in detail, we do not find (indirect or direct) evidence of dust having a significant charge-carrying role in Saturn's ionosphere. We also produce an estimate of H2O number density from the last six revolutions of Cassini through Saturn's ionosphere in higher detail than reported by the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS). Our analysis reveals an ionosphere that is highly structured in latitude across all six final revolutions, with mixing ratios varying with two orders of magnitude in latitude and one order of magnitude between revolutions and altitude. The result is generally consistent with an empirical photochemistry model balancing the production of H+ ions with the H+ loss through charge transfer with e.g., H2O, CH4 and CO2, for which water vapour appears as the likeliest dominant source of the signal in terms of yield and concentration., Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2022
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3. Euclid preparation. XVI. Exploring the ultra-low surface brightness Universe with Euclid/VIS

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Borlaff, A. S., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Altieri, B., Marcum, P. M., Vavrek, R., Laureijs, R., Kohley, R., Buitrago, F., Cuillandre, J. -C., Duc, P. -A., Gaspar Venancio, L. M., Amara, A., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Azzollini, R., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Baldi, M., Bardelli, S., Bender, R., Biviano, A., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Bozzo, E., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Camera, S., Candini, G. P., Capobianco, V., Cappi, A., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Castignani, G., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Colodro-Conde, C., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Coupon, J., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Ferdinando, D., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferreira, P. 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G., Tallada-Crespi, P., Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astronomy, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3 (CC-IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics, Research Program in Systems Oncology, and Helsinki Institute of Physics
Subjects: diffuse light, stellar haloes, FOS: Physical sciences, Galaxies: general, Instrumentation: detectors, Methods: observational, Space vehicles: instruments, Techniques: image processing, Techniques: photometric, virgo cluster, techniques: image processing, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Space vehicles: instrument, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, instruments [Space vehicles], techniques: photometric, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, spiral galaxies, image processing [Techniques], observational [Methods], space vehicles: instruments, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, detectors [Instrumentation], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, data release, Instrumentation: detector, substructure, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, instrumentation: detectors, photometric [Techniques], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, general [Galaxies], 115 Astronomy, Space science, calibration, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: general, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), deep, methods: observational, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, tidal features, tracing galaxy formation
Abstract: Full list of authors: Borlaff, A. S.; Gómez-Alvarez, P.; Altieri, B.; Marcum, P. M.; Vavrek, R.; Laureijs, R.; Kohley, R.; Buitrago, F.; Cuillandre, J. -C.; Duc, P. -A.; Gaspar Venancio, L. M.; Amara, A.; Andreon, S.; Auricchio, N.; Azzollini, R.; Baccigalupi, C.; Balaguera-Antolínez, A.; Baldi, M.; Bardelli, S.; Bender, R.; Biviano, A.; Bodendorf, C.; Bonino, D.; Bozzo, E.; Branchini, E.; Brescia, M.; Brinchmann, J.; Burigana, C.; Cabanac, R.; Camera, S.; Candini, G. P.; Capobianco, V.; Cappi, A.; Carbone, C.; Carretero, J.; Carvalho, C. S.; Casas, S.; Castander, F. J.; Castellano, M.; Castignani, G.; Cavuoti, S.; Cimatti, A.; Cledassou, R.; Colodro-Conde, C.; Congedo, G.; Conselice, C. J.; Conversi, L.; Copin, Y.; Corcione, L.; Coupon, J.; Courtois, H. M.; Cropper, M.; Da Silva, A.; Degaudenzi, H.; Di Ferdinando, D.; Douspis, M.; Dubath, F.; Duncan, C. A. J.; Dupac, X.; Dusini, S.; Ealet, A.; Fabricius, M.; Farina, M. ; Farrens, S.; Ferreira, P. G.; Ferriol, S.; Finelli, F.; Flose-Reimberg, P.; Fosalba, P.; Frailis, M.; Franceschi, E.; Fumana, M.; Galeotta, S.; Ganga, K.; Garilli, B.; Gillis, B.; Giocoli, C.; Gozaliasl, G.; Graciá-Carpio, J.; Grazian, A.; Grupp, F.; Haugan, S. V. H.; Holmes, W.; Hormuth, F.; Jahnke, K.; Keihanen, E.; Kermiche, S.; Kiessling, A.; Kilbinger, M.; Kirkpatrick, C. C.; Kitching, T.; Knapen, J. H.; Kubik, B.; Kümmel, M.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Liebing, P.; Ligori, S.; Lilje, P. B.; Lindholm, V.; Lloro, I.; Mainetti, G.; Maino, D.; Mansutti, O.; Marggraf, O.; Markovic, K.; Martinelli, M.; Martinet, N.; Martínez-Delgado, D.; Marulli, F.; Massey, R.; Maturi, M.; Maurogordato, S.; Medinaceli, E.; Mei, S.; Meneghetti, M.; Merlin, E.; Metcalf, R. B.; Meylan, G.; Moresco, M.; Morgante, G.; Moscardini, L.; Munari, E.; Nakajima, R.; Neissner, C.; Niemi, S. M.; Nightingale, J. W.; Nucita, A.; Padilla, C.; Paltani, S.; Pasian, F.; Patrizii, L.; Pedersen, K.; Percival, W. J.; Pettorino, V.; Pires, S.; Poncet, M.; Popa, L.; Potter, D.; Pozzetti, L.; Raison, F.; Rebolo, R.; Renzi, A.; Rhodes, J.; Riccio, G.; Romelli, E.; Roncarelli, M.; Rosset, C.; Rossetti, E.; Saglia, R.; Sánchez, A. G.; Sapone, D.; Sauvage, M.; Schneider, P.; Scottez, V.; Secroun, A.; Seidel, G.; Serrano, S.; Sirignano, C.; Sirri, G.; Skottfelt, J.; Stanco, L.; Starck, J. L.; Sureau, F.; Tallada-Crespí, P.; Taylor, A. N.; Tenti, M.; Tereno, I.; Teyssier, R.; Toledo-Moreo, R.; Torradeflot, F.; Tutusaus, I.; Valentijn, E. A.; Valenziano, L.; Valiviita, J.; Vassallo, T.; Viel, M.; Wang, Y.; Weller, J.; Whittaker, L.; Zacchei, A.; Zamorani, G.; Zucca, E.; Euclid Collaboration., Context. While Euclid is an ESA mission specifically designed to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter, the planned unprecedented combination of survey area (∼15 000 deg2), spatial resolution, low sky-background, and depth also make Euclid an excellent space observatory for the study of the low surface brightness Universe. Scientific exploitation of the extended low surface brightness structures requires dedicated calibration procedures that are yet to be tested. Aims. We investigate the capabilities of Euclid to detect extended low surface brightness structure by identifying and quantifying sky-background sources and stray-light contamination. We test the feasibility of generating sky flat-fields to reduce large-scale residual gradients in order to reveal the extended emission of galaxies observed in the Euclid survey. Methods. We simulated a realistic set of Euclid/VIS observations, taking into account both instrumental and astronomical sources of contamination, including cosmic rays, stray-light, zodiacal light, interstellar medium, and the cosmic infrared background, while simulating the effects of background sources in the field of view. Results. We demonstrate that a combination of calibration lamps, sky flats, and self-calibration would enable recovery of emission at a limiting surface brightness magnitude of μlim = 29.5−0.27+0.08 mag arcsec−2 (3σ, 10 × 10 arcsec2) in the Wide Survey, and it would reach regions deeper by 2 mag in the Deep Surveys. Conclusions.Euclid/VIS has the potential to be an excellent low surface brightness observatory. Covering the gap between pixel-to-pixel calibration lamp flats and self-calibration observations for large scales, the application of sky flat-fielding will enhance the sensitivity of the VIS detector at scales larger than 1″, up to the size of the field of view, enabling Euclid to detect extended surface brightness structures below μlim = 31 mag arcsec−2 and beyond. © ESO 2022., A. B. was supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the NASA Ames Research Center, administered by Universities Space Research Association under contract with NASA, and the European Space Agency (ESA), through the European Space Astronomy Center Faculty. We acknowledge a number of agencies and institutes that have supported the development of Euclid, in particular the Academy of Finland, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, the Belgian Science Policy, the Canadian Euclid Consortium, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, the Danish Space Research Institute, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Netherlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie, the Norwegian Space Agency, the Romanian Space Agency, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) at the Swiss Space Office (SSO), and the United Kingdom Space Agency. A complete and detailed list is available on the Euclid website (http://www.euclid-ec.org). This work has made use of data from the ESA mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. This research made use of NumPy (Van Der Walt et al. 2011), Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration 2013). All of the figures on this publication were generated using Matplotlib (Hunter 2007). This work was partly done using GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro, ascl.net/1801.009) version 0.11.22-dc86., With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.
Published: 2022

4. Euclid preparation

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Schirmer, M., Jahnke, K., Seidel, G., Aussel, H., Bodendorf, C., Grupp, F., Hormuth, F., Wachter, S., Appleton, P. N., Barbier, R., Brinchmann, J., Carrasco, J. M., Castander, F. J., Coupon, J., De Paolis, F., Franco, A., Ganga, K., Hudelot, P., Jullo, E., Lancon, A., Nucita, A. A., Paltani, S., Smadja, G., Venancio, L. M. G., Strafella, F., Weiler, M., Amara, A., Auphan, T., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Costille, A., Courbin, F., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hornstrup, A., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kohley, R., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Laureijs, R., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maciaszek, T., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Prieto, E., Raison, F., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Trifoglio, M., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Andreon, S., Bardelli, S., Boucaud, A., Camera, S., Farinelli, R., Graciá-Carpio, J., Maino, D., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Morisset, N., Polenta, G., Renzi, A., Romelli, E., Tenti, M., Vassallo, T., Zacchei, A., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Biviano, A., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Cooray, A. R., Courtois, H. M., Crocce, M., Cuby, J. -G., Davini, S., de la Torre, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Escartin, J. A., Farina, M., Ferreira, P. G., Finelli, F., Fotopoulou, S., Galeotta, S., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, K., Gozaliasl, G., Hook, I. M., Ilić, S., Kansal, V., Kashlinsky, A., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maoli, R., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., Mauri, N., McCracken, H. J., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nightingale, J., Patrizii, L., Peel, A., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Riccio, G., Sánchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Scottez, V., Sefusatti, E., Teyssier, R., Tutusaus, I., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., Hildebrandt, H., Schirmer, M., Jahnke, K., Seidel, G., Aussel, H., Bodendorf, C., Grupp, F., Hormuth, F., Wachter, S., Appleton, P. N., Barbier, R., Brinchmann, J., Carrasco, J. M., Castander, F. J., Coupon, J., De Paolis, F., Franco, A., Ganga, K., Hudelot, P., Jullo, E., Lan??on, A., Nucita, A. A., Paltani, S., Smadja, G., Strafella, F., Venancio, L. M. G., Weiler, M., Amara, A., Auphan, T., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bender, R., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, R., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. 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J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Prieto, E., Raison, F., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sartoris, B., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Tallada-Cresp??, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Trifoglio, M., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Andreon, S., Bardelli, S., Boucaud, A., Camera, S., Farinelli, R., Graci??-Carpio, J., Maino, D., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Morisset, N., Polenta, G., Renzi, A., Romelli, E., Tenti, M., Vassallo, T., Zacchei, A., Zucca, E., Baccigalupi, C., Balaguera-Antol??nez, A., Biviano, A., Blanchard, A., Borgani, S., Bozzo, E., Burigana, C., Cabanac, R., Cappi, A., Carvalho, C. S., Casas, S., Castignani, G., Colodro-Conde, C., Cooray, A. R., Courtois, H. M., Crocce, M., Cuby, J. -G., Davini, S., de la Torre, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Escartin, J. A., Farina, M., Ferreira, P. G., Finelli, F., Fotopoulou, S., Galeotta, S., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, K., Gozaliasl, G., Hook, I. M., Ili??, S., Kansal, V., Kashlinsky, A., Keihanen, E., Kirkpatrick, C. C., Lindholm, V., Mainetti, G., Maoli, R., Martinelli, M., Martinet, N., Maturi, M., Mauri, N., Mccracken, H. J., Metcalf, R. B., Monaco, P., Morgante, G., Nightingale, J., Patrizii, L., Peel, A., Popa, V., Porciani, C., Potter, D., Reimberg, P., Riccio, G., S??nchez, A. G., Sapone, D., Scottez, V., Sefusatti, E., Teyssier, R., Tutusaus, I., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Viel, M., Hildebrandt, H., Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3 (CC-IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Euclid, Lancon, A., Kummel, M., Tallada-Crespi, P., Gracia-Carpio, J., Balaguera-Antolinez, A., Ilic, S., and Sanchez, A. G.
Subjects: Instrumentation - photometers, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), photometers-space vehicles, instruments [instrumentation], instruments [space vehicles], Astrophysics - cosmology and nongalactic astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, ZY, ASTROPY, space vehicles - instruments, Astrophysics - instrumentation and methods for astrophysics, instrumentation: photometers, space vehicles: instruments, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, photometer [instrumentation], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, space vehicles - instruments, instrumentation: photometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, STANDARD STARS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, photometers [Instrumentation], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Euclid will be the first space mission to survey most of the extragalactic sky in the 0.95-2.02 $\mu$m range, to a 5$\sigma$ point-source median depth of 24.4 AB mag. This unique photometric data set will find wide use beyond Euclid's core science. In this paper, we present accurate computations of the Euclid Y_E, J_E and H_E passbands used by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP), and the associated photometric system. We pay particular attention to passband variations in the field of view, accounting among others for spatially variable filter transmission, and variations of the angle of incidence on the filter substrate using optical ray tracing. The response curves' cut-on and cut-off wavelengths - and their variation in the field of view - are determined with 0.8 nm accuracy, essential for the photometric redshift accuracy required by Euclid. After computing the photometric zeropoints in the AB mag system, we present linear transformations from and to common ground-based near-infrared photometric systems, for normal stars, red and brown dwarfs, and galaxies separately. A Python tool to compute accurate magnitudes for arbitrary passbands and spectral energy distributions is provided. We discuss various factors from space weathering to material outgassing that may slowly alter Euclid's spectral response. At the absolute flux scale, the Euclid in-flight calibration program connects the NISP photometric system to Hubble Space Telescope spectrophotometric white dwarf standards; at the relative flux scale, the chromatic evolution of the response is tracked at the milli-mag level. In this way, we establish an accurate photometric system that is fully controlled throughout Euclid's lifetime., Comment: 33 pages, 25 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2022

5. Euclid::Constraining dark energy coupled to electromagnetism using astrophysical and laboratory data

Author: Martinelli M., Martins C. J. A. P., Nesseris S., Tutusaus I., Blanchard A., Camera S., Carbone C., Casas S., Pettorino V., Sakr Z., Yankelevich V., Sapone D., Amara A., Auricchio N., Bodendorf C., Bonino D., Branchini E., Capobianco V., Carretero J., Castellano M., Cavuoti S., Cimatti A., Cledassou R., Corcione L., Costille A., Degaudenzi H., Douspis M., Dubath F., Dusini S., Ealet A., Ferriol S., Frailis M., Franceschi E., Garilli B., Giocoli C., Grazian A., Grupp F., Haugan S. V. H., Holmes W., Hormuth F., Jahnke K., Kiessling A., Kummel M., Kunz M., Kurki-Suonio H., Ligori S., Lilje P. B., Lloro I., Mansutti O., Marggraf O., Markovic K., Massey R., Meneghetti M., Meylan G., Moscardini L., Niemi S. M., Padilla C., Paltani S., Pasian F., Pedersen K., Pires S., Poncet M., Popa L., Raison F., Rebolo R., Rhodes J., Roncarelli M., Rossetti E., Saglia R., Secroun A., Seidel G., Serrano S., Sirignano C., Sirri G., Starck J. -L., Tavagnacco D., Taylor A. N., Tereno I., Toledo-Moreo R., Valenziano L., Wang Y., Zamorani G., Zoubian J., Baldi M., Brescia M., Congedo G., Conversi L., Copin Y., Fabbian G., Farinelli R., Medinaceli E., Mei S., Polenta G., Romelli E., Vassallo T., Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Euclid, Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Martinelli, M., Martins, C. 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M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Rhodes, J., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Starck, J. -L., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Baldi, M., Brescia, M., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Fabbian, G., Farinelli, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Polenta, G., Romelli, E., Vassallo, T., Martinelli M., Martins C.J.A.P., Nesseris S., Tutusaus I., Blanchard A., Camera S., Carbone C., Casas S., Pettorino V., Sakr Z., Yankelevich V., Sapone D., Amara A., Auricchio N., Bodendorf C., Bonino D., Branchini E., Capobianco V., Carretero J., Castellano M., Cavuoti S., Cimatti A., Cledassou R., Corcione L., Costille A., Degaudenzi H., Douspis M., Dubath F., Dusini S., Ealet A., Ferriol S., Frailis M., Franceschi E., Garilli B., Giocoli C., Grazian A., Grupp F., Haugan S.V.H., Holmes W., Hormuth F., Jahnke K., Kiessling A., Kummel M., Kunz M., Kurki-Suonio H., Ligori S., Lilje P.B., Lloro I., Mansutti O., Marggraf O., Markovic K., Massey R., Meneghetti M., Meylan G., Moscardini L., Niemi S.M., Padilla C., Paltani S., Pasian F., Pedersen K., Pires S., Poncet M., Popa L., Raison F., Rebolo R., Rhodes J., Roncarelli M., Rossetti E., Saglia R., Secroun A., Seidel G., Serrano S., Sirignano C., Sirri G., Starck J.-L., Tavagnacco D., Taylor A.N., Tereno I., Toledo-Moreo R., Valenziano L., Wang Y., Zamorani G., Zoubian J., Baldi M., Brescia M., Congedo G., Conversi L., Copin Y., Fabbian G., Farinelli R., Medinaceli E., Mei S., Polenta G., Romelli E., and Vassallo T.
Subjects: Cosmological parameter, statistical [Methods], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), constraint, dark energy: coupling, quintessence, Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Methods: data analysis, Methods: statistical, Space vehicles: instruments, Surveys, FOS: Physical sciences, parametric, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Space vehicles: instrument, Cosmology: observation, 114 Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, instruments [Space vehicles], statistical analysis, electromagnetic field, cosmological model: parameter space, 0103 physical sciences, fine-structure constant, equivalence principle: violation, observations [Cosmology], data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, fundamental constant: fine structure, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, redshift, gravity, field theory: scalar, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, limits, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], cosmology, Methods: data analysi, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Martinelli, M., et al., In physically realistic, scalar-field-based dynamical dark energy models (including, e.g., quintessence), one naturally expects the scalar field to couple to the rest of the model's degrees of freedom. In particular, a coupling to the electromagnetic sector leads to a time (redshift) dependence in the fine-structure constant and a violation of the weak equivalence principle. Here we extend the previous Euclid forecast constraints on dark energy models to this enlarged (but physically more realistic) parameter space, and forecast how well Euclid, together with high-resolution spectroscopic data and local experiments, can constrain these models. Our analysis combines simulated Euclid data products with astrophysical measurements of the fine-structure constant, α, and local experimental constraints, and it includes both parametric and non-parametric methods. For the astrophysical measurements of α, we consider both the currently available data and a simulated dataset representative of Extremely Large Telescope measurements that are expected to be available in the 2030s. Our parametric analysis shows that in the latter case, the inclusion of astrophysical and local data improves the Euclid dark energy figure of merit by between 8% and 26%, depending on the correct fiducial model, with the improvements being larger in the null case where the fiducial coupling to the electromagnetic sector is vanishing. These improvements would be smaller with the current astrophysical data. Moreover, we illustrate how a genetic algorithms based reconstruction provides a null test for the presence of the coupling. Our results highlight the importance of complementing surveys like Euclid with external data products, in order to accurately test the wider parameter spaces of physically motivated paradigms.
Published: 2021

6. Internal calibration of Gaia BP/RP low-resolution spectra

Author: C. Fabricius, M. Weiler, M. Riello, P. Montegriffo, D. W. Evans, J. M. Carrasco, Carme Jordi, F. De Angeli, F. van Leeuwen, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), University of Cambridge, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, and Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Subjects: Galaxies: general, Calibration (statistics), Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Techniques: spectroscopic, Context (language use), Basis function, Instrumentation: spectrographs, Astrophysics, spectroscopic [Techniques], Convolution, instruments [Space vehicles], Space vehicles: instruments, spectrographs [Instrumentation], Linear combination, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, general [Stars], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, general [Galaxies], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational physics, Transformation (function), Cardinal point, Space and Planetary Science, Stars: general, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Context. The full third Gaia data release will provide, for the first time, the calibrated spectra obtained with the blue and red Gaia slitless spectrophotometers (BP and RP, respectively). Gaia is a very complex mission and cannot be considered as a single instrument, but rather as many instruments. The two lines of sight with wide fields of view introduce strong variations of the observations across the large focal plane with more than one hundred different detectors. The main challenge when facing Gaia spectral calibration is that no lamp spectra or flat fields are available during the mission. Also, the significant size of the line spread function with respect to the dispersion of the prisms produces alien photons contaminating neighbouring positions of the spectra. This makes the calibration special and different from standard approaches. Aims. This work gives a detailed description of the internal calibration model for the spectrophotometric data used to obtain the content of the Gaia catalogue. The main purpose of the internal calibration is to bring all the epoch spectra onto a common flux and pixel (pseudo-wavelength) scale, taking into account variations over the focal plane and with time, producing a mean spectrum from all the observations of the same source. Methods. In order to describe all observations on a common mean flux and pseudo-wavelength scale, we constructed a suitable representation of the internally calibrated mean spectra via basis functions, and we described the transformation between non-calibrated epoch spectra and calibrated mean spectra via a discrete convolution, parametrising the convolution kernel to recover the relevant coefficients. Results. The model proposed here for the internal calibration of the Gaia spectrophotometric observations is able to combine all observations into a mean instrument to allow the comparison of different sources and observations obtained with different instrumental conditions along the mission and the generation of mean spectra from a number of observations of the same source. We derived a calibration model that can handle the self-calibrating nature of the problem. The output of this model provides the internal mean spectra, not as a sampled function (flux and wavelength), but as a linear combination of basis functions, although sampled spectra can easily be derived from them., Authors at the ICCUB were supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU/FEDER, UE) through grant RTI2018-095076-B-C21, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”) through grant CEX2019-000918-M. Authors at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge were supported by the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) through the following grants to the University of Cambridge: ST/K000756/1, ST/N000641/1 and ST/S000089/1. Authors at INAF were supported by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) through contracts I/037/08/0, I/058/10/0, 2014-025-R.0, 2014-025-R.1.2015 and 2018-24-HH.0 to the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), and INAF.
Published: 2021

7. Gaia Early Data Release 3: Updated radial velocities from Gaia DR2

Author: Eric Gosset, Yassine Damerdji, Laurent Chemin, D. Katz, M. Ajaj, K. Janßen, Y. Frémat, Teresa Antoja, R. Blomme, C. Dolding, D. Teyssier, C. Fabricius, F. Crifo, Tomaž Zwitter, Mark Cropper, Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti, Leanne P. Guy, N. Brouillet, G. Plum, K. Benson, Alex Lobel, Y. Viala, R. Haigron, O. Marchal, Mike Smith, A. Jean-Antoine, Stephen Baker, C. Allende Prieto, Nigel Hambly, H. Huckle, Frédéric Thévenin, Elisabetta Caffau, P. Sartoretti, Pasquale Panuzzo, F. Royer, George M. Seabroke, A. Guerrier, Gérard Jasniewicz, N. Samaras, M. David, O. Vanel, N. Leclerc, Caroline Soubiran, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Universidad de Barcelona, and European Commission
Subjects: Bright star, FOS: Physical sciences, Binary number, Techniques: spectroscopic, Instrumentation: spectrographs, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, spectroscopic [Techniques], instruments [Space vehicles], 0103 physical sciences, Space vehicles: instruments, spectrographs [Instrumentation], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Physics, radial velocities [Techniques], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrometry, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Radial velocity, Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Techniques: radial velocities, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Data release
Abstract: Seabroke, G. M., et al., [Context] Gaia's Early Third Data Release (EDR3) does not contain new radial velocities because these will be published in Gaia's full third data release (DR3), expected in the first half of 2022. To maximise the usefulness of EDR3, Gaia's second data release (DR2) sources (with radial velocities) are matched to EDR3 sources to allow their DR2 radial velocities to also be included in EDR3. This presents two considerations: (i) a list of 70 365 sources with potentially contaminated DR2 radial velocities has been published; and (ii) EDR3 is based on a new astrometric solution and a new source list, which means sources in DR2 may not be in EDR3. [Aims] The two aims of this work are: (i) investigate the list in order to improve the DR2 radial velocities being included in EDR3 and to avoid false-positive hypervelocity candidates; and (ii) match the DR2 sources (with radial velocities) to EDR3 sources. [Methods] Thetwo methods of this work are: (i) unpublished, preliminary DR3 radial velocities of sources on the list, and high-velocity stars not on the list, are compared with their DR2 radial velocities to identify and remove contaminated DR2 radial velocities from EDR3; and (ii) proper motions and epoch position propagation is used to attempt to match all sources with radial velocities in DR2 to EDR3 sources. The comparison of DR2 and DR3 radial velocities is used to resolve match ambiguities. [Results] EDR3 contains 7 209 831 sources with a DR2 radial velocity, which is 99.8% of sources with a radial velocity in DR2 (7 224 631). 14 800 radial velocities from DR2 are not propagated to any EDR3 sources because (i) 3871 from the list are found to either not have a DR3 radial velocity or it differs significantly from its DR2 value, and five high-velocity stars not on the list are confirmed to have contaminated radial velocities, in one case because of contamination from the non-overlapping Radial Velocity Spectrometer windows of a nearby, bright star; and (ii) 10 924 DR2 sources could not be satisfactorily matched to any EDR3 sources, so their DR2 radial velocities are also missing from EDR3. [Conclusions] The reliability of radial velocities in EDR3 has improved compared to DR2 because the update removes a small fraction of erroneous radial velocities (0.05% of DR2 radial velocities and 5.5% of the list). Lessons learnt from EDR3 (e.g. bright star contamination) will improve the radial velocities in future Gaia data releases. The main reason for radial velocities from DR2 not propagating to EDR3 is not related to DR2 radial velocity quality. It is because the DR2 astrometry is based on one component of close binary pairs, while EDR3 astrometry is based on the other component, which prevents these sources from being unambiguously matched., This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU/FEDER, UE) through grants RTI2018-095076-B-C21, ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’) through grants MDM-2014-0369 and CEX2019-000918-M. T.A. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement no. 745617 and from the Ramon y Cajal Fellowship RYC2018-025968-I. The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under US Government grant NAG W-2166.
Published: 2021

8. First year of energetic particle measurements in the inner heliosphere with Solar Orbiter's Energetic Particle Detector

Author: R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, N. P. Janitzek, D. Pacheco, I. Cernuda, F. Espinosa Lara, R. Gómez-Herrero, G. M. Mason, R. C. Allen, Z. G. Xu, F. Carcaboso, A. Kollhoff, P. Kühl, J. L. Freiherr von Forstner, L. Berger, J. Rodriguez-Pacheco, G. C. Ho, G. B. Andrews, V. Angelini, A. Aran, S. Boden, S. I. Böttcher, A. Carrasco, N. Dresing, S. Eldrum, R. Elftmann, V. Evans, O. Gevin, J. Hayes, B. Heber, T. S. Horbury, S. R. Kulkarni, D. Lario, W. J. Lees, O. Limousin, O. E. Malandraki, C. Martín, H. O’Brien, M. Prieto Mateo, A. Ravanbakhsh, O. Rodriguez-Polo, S. Sánchez Prieto, C. E. Schlemm, H. Seifert, J. C. Terasa, K. Tyagi, R. Vainio, A. Walsh, M. K. Yedla, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), German Research Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), and European Commission
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, corona [Sun], FOS: Physical sciences, particle emission [Sun], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, instruments [Space vehicles], Physics - Space Physics, Sun: activity, Sun: particle emission, 0103 physical sciences, Space vehicles: instruments, activity [Sun], Sun: heliosphere, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, heliosphere [Sun], Sun: corona, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space Physics (physics.space-ph), Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, Interplanetary medium
Abstract: Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F., et al., [Context] Solar Orbiter strives to unveil how the Sun controls and shapes the heliosphere and fills it with energetic particle radiation. To this end, its Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) has now been in operation, providing excellent data, for just over a year. [Aims] EPD measures suprathermal and energetic particles in the energy range from a few keV up to (near-) relativistic energies (few MeV for electrons and about 500 MeV nuc-1 for ions). We present an overview of the initial results from the first year of operations and we provide a first assessment of issues and limitations. In addition, we present areas where EPD excels and provides opportunities for significant scientific progress in understanding how our Sun shapes the heliosphere. [Methods] We used the solar particle events observed by Solar Orbiter on 21 July and between 10 and 11 December 2020 to discuss the capabilities, along with updates and open issues related to EPD on Solar Orbiter. We also give some words of caution and caveats related to the use of EPD-derived data. [Results] During this first year of operations of the Solar Orbiter mission, EPD has recorded several particle events at distances between 0.5 and 1 au from the Sun. We present dynamic and time-averaged energy spectra for ions that were measured with a combination of all four EPD sensors, namely: the SupraThermal Electron and Proton sensor (STEP), the Electron Proton Telescope (EPT), the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS), and the High-Energy Telescope (HET) as well as the associated energy spectra for electrons measured with STEP and EPT. We illustrate the capabilities of the EPD suite using the 10 and 11 December 2020 solar particle event. This event showed an enrichment of heavy ions as well as 3He, for which we also present dynamic spectra measured with SIS. The high anisotropy of electrons at the onset of the event and its temporal evolution is also shown using data from these sensors. We discuss the ongoing in-flight calibration and a few open instrumental issues using data from the 21 July and the 10 and 11 December 2020 events and give guidelines and examples for the usage of the EPD data. We explain how spacecraft operations may affect EPD data and we present a list of such time periods in the appendix. A list of the most significant particle enhancements as observed by EPT during this first year is also provided., We acknowledge the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades for their invaluable support on the development of the EPD suite and the ICU under grants FEDER/MCIU – Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Projects ESP2015-68266-R, ESP2017-88436-R and PID2019-104863RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. We also thank acknowledge the financial support by the Spanish MINECO-FPI-2016 predoctoral grant with FSE. We thank the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the German Space Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, e.V., (DLR)) for their unwavering support of STEP, EPT, and HET under grants numbers 50OT0901, 50OT1202, 50OT1702, and 50OT2002; and ESA for supporting the build of SIS under contract number SOL.ASTR.CON.00004, as well as the University of Kiel and the Land Schleswig-Holstein for their support of SIS. We thank NASA headquarters and the GSFC Solar Orbiter project office for support of SIS at APL under contract NNN06AA01C. A.A. acknowledges the support by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) under grant PID2019- 105510GB-C31 and through the ‘Center of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023’ award to the ICCUB (CEX2019-000918- M). Solar Orbiter magnetometer operations are funded by the UK Space Agency (grant ST/T001062/1). Tim Horbury is supported by STFC grant ST/S000364/1. We acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004159 (SERPENTINE).
Published: 2021

9. Gaia early data release 3: the astrometric solution

Author: V. Sanchez Gimenez, C. Barache, J. Torra, F. Torra, Sergei A. Klioner, S. Liao, David Hobbs, G. Gracia-Abril, Francois Mignard, Alexey Mints, A. Masip, X. Peñalosa Esteller, Roberto Morbidelli, Rossella Cancelliere, C. Fabricius, J. Castañeda, E. Poggio, D. Molina, Nicholas Rowell, Stefano Bertone, Patrick Charlot, E. F. del Peloso, M. Hauser, E. del Pozo, M. Ramos-Lerate, L. Balaguer-Núñez, Jose M Hernandez, H. Steidelmüller, C. Pagani, A. de Torres, R. Buzzi, Lennart Lindegren, Ugo Becciani, H. I. Siddiqui, E. Fraile, S. Bartolomé, D. Souami, C. Crowley, Eva Sciacca, Mario Gai, Luciana Bianchi, David Teyssier, R. Geyer, M. Clotet, Nigel Hambly, Martin Altmann, Alex Bombrun, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Anthony G. A. Brown, Pasquale Panuzzo, F. Taris, Michael Davidson, E. Licata, Jordi Portell, Iain A. Steele, K. Janßen, Ulrich Bastian, P. Re Fiorentin, N. Garralda, P. Esquej, Beatrice Bucciarelli, M. Biermann, Ronald Drimmel, E. Anglada Varela, W. van Reeven, Mariateresa Crosta, W. Löffler, T. Carlucci, A. Sagristà Sellés, S. Bouquillon, Tim Lister, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Thomas Hilger, A. G. Butkevich, D. Busonero, M. Bernet, Richard L. Smart, Agnes Fienga, U. Abbas, E. Utrilla, Stefan Jordan, E. Gerlach, C.A. Stephenson, Jon Marchant, Alessandro Spagna, M. Sarasso, Paul J. McMillan, M. Garcia-Reinaldos, U. Lammers, C. P. Murphy, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Zoltan Balog, J.J. González-Vidal, Alberto Vecchiato, Alberto Riva, Alcione Mora, Raphael Guerra, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Commission, German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swedish National Space Agency, University of Bristol, and University College London
Subjects: Astrophysics - instrumentation and methods for astrophysics, Proper motion, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Data analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, instruments [Space vehicles], Methods: data analysis, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Methods, Space vehicles: instruments, data analysis [Methods], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Mathematics, Data processing, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Epoch (reference date), Parallaxes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space vehicles, Astrometry, Geodesy, Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy), Satellite, Proper motions, Parallax, Instruments, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: [Context] Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3-21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operational phase. [Aims] We describe the input data, the models, and the processing used for the astrometric content of Gaia EDR3, as well as the validation of these results performed within the astrometry task. [Methods] The processing broadly followed the same procedures as for Gaia DR2, but with significant improvements to the modelling of observations. For the first time in the Gaia data processing, colour-dependent calibrations of the line- and point-spread functions have been used for sources with well-determined colours from DR2. In the astrometric processing these sources obtained five-parameter solutions, whereas other sources were processed using a special calibration that allowed a pseudocolour to be estimated as the sixth astrometric parameter. Compared with DR2, the astrometric calibration models have been extended, and the spin-related distortion model includes a self-consistent determination of basic-angle variations, improving the global parallax zero point. [Results] Gaia EDR3 gives full astrometric data (positions at epoch J2016.0, parallaxes, and proper motions) for 1.468 billion sources (585 millionwith five-parameter solutions, 882 million with six parameters), and mean positions at J2016.0 for an additional 344 million.Solutions with five parameters are generally more accurate than six-parameter solutions, and are available for 93% of the sources brighter than the 17th magnitude. The median uncertainty in parallax and annual proper motion is 0.02-0.03 mas at magnitude G = 9-14, and around 0.5 mas at G = 20. Extensive characterisation of the statistical properties of the solutions is provided, including the estimated angular power spectrum of parallax bias from the quasars., This work was financially supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the Gaia project; the German Aerospace Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR) through grants 50QG0501, 50QG0601, 50QG0901, 50QG1401 and 50QG1402; the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO/FEDER, UE) through grants ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R, RTI2018-095076-B-C21 and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”) through grants MDM-2014-0369 and CEX2019-000918-M; the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen); and the United Kingdom Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) through the following grants to the University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester, the Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory of University College London, and the United Kingdom Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL): PP/D006511/1, PP/D006546/1, PP/D006570/1, ST/I000852/1, ST/J005045/1, ST/K00056X/1, ST/K000209/1, ST/K000756/1, ST/L006561/1, ST/N000595/1, ST/N000641/1, ST/N000978/1, ST/N001117/1, ST/S000089/1, ST/S000976/1, ST/S001123/1, ST/S001948/1, ST/S002103/1, and ST/V000969/1.
Published: 2021

10. Gaia early data release 3

Author: Jordi Portell, Ulrich Bastian, Alex Bombrun, Nicholas Rowell, Nigel Hambly, Michael Davidson, M. Riello, C. Crowley, A. Mora, F. van Leeuwen, U. Lammers, F. De Angeli, M. Biermann, C. Fabricius, J. Castañeda, Lennart Lindegren, Jose M Hernandez, G. Gracia, Anthony G. A. Brown, D. W. Evans, D. Busonero, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK), UK Space Agency, University of Bristol, University College London, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Dresden University of Technology, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swedish National Space Board, and Netherlands Research School for Astronomy
Subjects: Point spread function, Data stream, Data Analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Photometry (optics), instruments [Space vehicles], Methods: data analysis, Space Vehicles, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Methods, Instrumentation: detectors, Space vehicles: instruments, data analysis [Methods], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, detectors [Instrumentation], Remote sensing, Physics, Data processing, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Detectors, Astrometry, Space and Planetary Science, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Focus (optics), Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instruments, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: Rowell, N., et al., [Context] The unprecedented astrometric precision of the Gaia mission relies on accurate estimates of the locations of sources in the Gaia data stream. This is ultimately performed by point spread function (PSF) fitting, which in turn requires an accurate reconstruction of the PSF, including calibrations of all the major dependences. These include a strong colour dependence due to Gaia's broad G band and a strong time dependence due to the evolving contamination levels and instrument focus. Accurate PSF reconstruction is also important for photometry. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) will, for the first time, use a PSF calibration that models several of the strongest dependences, leading to signficantly reduced systematic errors. [Aims] We describe the PSF model and calibration pipeline implemented for Gaia EDR3, including an analysis of the calibration results over the 34 months of data. We include a discussion of the limitations of the current pipeline and directions for future releases. This will be of use both to users of Gaia data and as a reference for other precision astrometry missions. [Methods] We develop models of the 1D line spread function (LSF) and 2D PSF profiles based on a linear combination of basis components. These are designed for flexibility and performance, as well as to meet several mathematical criteria such as normalisation. We fit the models to selected primary sources in independent time ranges, using simple parameterisations for the colour and other dependences. Variation in time is smoothed by merging the independent calibrations in a square root information filter, with resets at certain mission events that induce a discontinuous change in the PSF. [Results] The PSF calibration shows strong time and colour dependences that accurately reproduce the varying state of the Gaia astrometric instrument. Analysis of the residuals reveals both the performance and the limitations of the current models and calibration pipeline, and indicates the directions for future development. [Conclusions] The PSF modelling and calibration carried out for Gaia EDR3 represents a major step forwards in the data processing and will lead to reduced systematic errors in the core mission data products. Further significant improvements are expected in the future data releases., The work described in this paper has been financially supported by the United Kingdom Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) through the following grants to the University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester, the Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory of University College London, and the United Kingdom Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL): PP/D006511/1, PP/D006546/1, PP/D006570/1, ST/I000852/1, ST/J005045/1, ST/K00056X/1, ST/K000209/1, ST/K000756/1, ST/L006561/1, ST/N000595/1, ST/N000641/1, ST/N000978/1, ST/N001117/1, ST/S000089/1, ST/S000976/1, ST/S001123/1, ST/S001948/1, ST/S002103/1, and ST/V000969/1; the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO/FEDER, UE) through grants ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R, RTI2018-095076-B-C21 and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”) through grants MDM-2014-0369 and CEX2019-000918-M; the German Aerospace Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR) through grants 50QG0501, 50QG0601, 50QG0602, 50QG0701, 50QG0901, 50QG1001, 50QG1101, 50QG1401, 50QG1402, 50QG1403, and 50QG1404 and the Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden for generous allocations of computer time; the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) through contracts I/037/08/0, I/058/10/0, 2014-025-R.0, 2014-025-R.1.2015 and 2018-24-HH.0 to the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica; and the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB/Rymdstyrelsen). A.B. additionally acknowledges financial support from the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA).
Published: 2021

11. Planck intermediate results

Author: Adam, R, Ade, PAR, Aghanim, N, Arnaud, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartlett, JG, Bartolo, N, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bracco, A, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Catalano, A, Challinor, A, Chamballu, A, Chary, R-R, Chiang, HC, Christensen, PR, Clements, DL, Colombi, S, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Couchot, F, Coulais, A, Crill, BP, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, de Bernardis, P, de Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J-M, Désert, F-X, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Dolag, K, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dunkley, J, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Finelli, F, Forni, O, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Frejsel, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Ghosh, T, Giard, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Gjerløw, E, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Guillet, V, Hansen, FK, Hanson, D, Harrison, DL, Helou, G, Henrot-Versillé, S, Hernández-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Holmes, WA, Huffenberger, KM, Hurier, G, Jaffe, AH, Jaffe, TR, and Jewell, J
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], instruments [space vehicles], galaxies [submillimeter], cosmic background radiation, general [X-rays], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, clusters: general [galaxies], submillimeter, dark ages, general [radiation mechanisms], relativistic processes, astro-ph.HE, theory [cosmology], general [ISM], extinction, supernova remnants [ISM], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, ISM [infrared], observations [cosmology], bubbles [ISM], ISM - dust, observations, clusters: intracluster medium [galaxies], active [galaxies], structure [galaxies], astro-ph.CO, reionization, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, dust, large-scale structure of Universe, star formation [galaxies], disk [Galaxy], clouds [ISM], local insterstellar matter, high-redshift [galaxies], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.GA, statistical [methods], first stars, individual: Messier 31 [galaxies], ISM [radio continuum], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Affordable and Clean Energy, ISM [gamma rays], cosmic rays, surveys, weak [gravitational lensing], diffuse background [infrared], atomic data, data analysis [methods], reference systems, general [planets and satellites], cosmological parameters, ISM [submillimeter], general [infrared], general [Galaxy], evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, nucleus [Galaxy], polarization, detectors [instrumentation], ISM [galaxies], turbulence, magnetic fields [ISM], clusters: individual: Virgo [galaxies], general [submillimeter], galaxies [radio continuum], diffuse radiation, astro-ph.EP, structure [ISM], magnetohydrodynamics, cosmology, catalogs, general [galaxies], astro-ph.IM
Abstract: The six parameters of the standard ΛCDM model have best-fit values derived from the Planck temperature power spectrum that are shifted somewhat from the best-fit values derived from WMAP data. These shifts are driven by features in the Planck temperature power spectrum at angular scales that had never before been measured to cosmic-variance level precision. We have investigated these shifts to determine whether they are within the range of expectation and to understand their origin in the data. Taking our parameter set to be the optical depth of the reionized intergalactic medium, the baryon density ωb, the matter density ωm, the angular size of the sound horizon the spectral index of the primordial power spectrum, ns, and Ase-2τ (where As is the amplitude of the primordial power spectrum), we have examined the change in best-fit values between a WMAP-like large angular-scale data set (with multipole moment < 800 in the Planck temperature power spectrum) and an all angular-scale data set (< 2500Planck temperature power spectrum), each with a prior on τ of 0.07 ± 0.02. We find that the shifts, in units of the 1σ expected dispersion for each parameter, are {value of 8.0. We find that this χ2 value is exceeded in 15% of our simulated data sets, and that a parameter deviates by more than 2.2σ in 9% of simulated data sets, meaning that the shifts are not unusually large. Comparing < 800 instead to > 800, or splitting at a different multipole, yields similar results. We examined the < 800 model residuals in the > 800 power spectrum data and find that the features there that drive these shifts are a set of oscillations across a broad range of angular scales. Although they partly appear similar to the effects of enhanced gravitational lensing, the shifts in ΛCDM parameters that arise in response to these features correspond to model spectrum changes that are predominantly due to non-lensing effects; the only exception is, which, at fixed Ase-2τ, affects the > 800 temperature power spectrum solely through the associated change in As and the impact of that on the lensing potential power spectrum. We also ask, "what is it about the power spectrum at < 800 that leads to somewhat different best-fit parameters than come from the full range?" We find that if we discard the data at < 30, where there is a roughly 2σ downward fluctuation in power relative to the model that best fits the full range, the < 800 best-fit parameters shift significantly towards the < 2500 best-fit parameters. In contrast, including < 30, this previously noted "low-deficit" drives ns up and impacts parameters correlated with ns, such as ωm and H0. As expected, the < 30 data have a much greater impact on the < 800 best fit than on the < 2500 best fit. So although the shifts are not very significant, we find that they can be understood through the combined effects of an oscillatory-like set of high-residuals and the deficit in low-power, excursions consistent with sample variance that happen to map onto changes in cosmological parameters. Finally, we examine agreement between PlanckTT data and two other CMB data sets, namely the Planck lensing reconstruction and the TT power spectrum measured by the South Pole Telescope, again finding a lack of convincing evidence of any significant deviations in parameters, suggesting that current CMB data sets give an internally consistent picture of the ΛCDM model.
Published: 2020

12. Upstream solar wind speed at comet 67P

Author: H. Nilsson, A. Moeslinger, H. N. Williamson, S. Bergman, H. Gunell, G. Stenberg Wieser, Y. Futaana, T. Karlsson, E. Behar, and M. Holmström
Subjects: Acceleration of particles, general [Comets], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics, instruments [Space vehicles], Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Plasmas, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, individual: C67P [Comets]
Abstract: Context. Rosetta followed comet 67P at heliocentric distances from 1.25 to 3.6 au. The solar wind was observed for much of this time, but was significantly deflected and to some extent slowed down by the interaction with the coma. Aims. We use the different changes in the speed of H+ and He2+ when they interact with the coma to estimate the upstream speed of the solar wind. The different changes in the speed are due to the different mass per charge of the particles, while the electric force per charge due to the interaction is the same. A major assumption is that the speeds of H+ and He2+ were the same in the upstream region. This is investigated. Methods. We derived a method for reconstructing the upstream solar wind from H+ and He2+ observations. The method is based on the assumption that the interaction of the comet with the solar wind can be described by an electric potential that is the same for both H+ and He2+. This is compared to estimates from the Tao model and to OMNI and Mars Express data that we propagated to the observation point. Results. The reconstruction agrees well with the Tao model for most of the observations, in particular for the statistical distribution of the solar wind speed. The electrostatic potential relative to the upstream solar wind is derived and shows values from a few dozen volts at large heliocentric distances to about 1 kV during solar events and close to perihelion. The reconstructed values of the solar wind for periods of high electrostatic potential also agree well with propagated observations and model results. Conclusions. The reconstructed upstream solar wind speed during the Rosetta mission agrees well with the Tao model. The Tao model captures some slowing down of high-speed streams as compared to observations at Earth or Mars. At low solar wind speeds, below 400 km s−1, the agreement is better between our reconstruction and Mars observations than with the Tao model. The magnitude of the reconstructed electrostatic potential is a good measure of the slowing-down of the solar wind at the observation point.
Published: 2022

13. The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: Translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action

Author: Jack Jenkins, A. Vecchio, Georgios Nicolaou, Robert T. Wicks, Sarah A. Matthews, Matthieu Berthomier, T. Chust, Johann Hirzberger, L. Dolla, R. Carr, Spiros Patsourakos, O. Alexandrova, R. De Marco, V. Da Deppo, Angelos Vourlidas, Vincent Génot, Martin M. Roth, Alessandro Bemporad, Eduard P. Kontar, Susan T. Lepri, Lucie M. Green, Pedro Osuna, Jon A. Linker, Sergio Toledo-Redondo, D. Orozco Suárez, Denise Perrone, I. Carrasco-Blazquez, Manolis K. Georgoulis, Achim Gandorfer, Hardi Peter, Daniele Spadaro, Dirk Plettemeier, N. J. Fox, Luciano Rodriguez, Olga Malandraki, Andrei Zhukov, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, A. Giunta, Natasha L. S. Jeffrey, L. Etesi, Karine Bocchialini, Davina Innes, Kévin Dalmasse, Jim M. Raines, Jesper Schou, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, Jonathan Eastwood, Lucia Abbo, P. Rochus, T. Dudok de Wit, T. Appourchaux, Stuart D. Bale, C. Watson, Milan Maksimovic, F. Espinosa Lara, Sami K. Solanki, Paulett C. Liewer, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Vincenzo Andretta, L. R. Bellot Rubio, C. Plainaki, C. Terasa, V. Martinez-Pillet, C. Gontikakis, Säm Krucker, S. Parenti, David Long, I. Zouganelis, Silvano Fineschi, Gary Graham, Sophie Musset, Daniel Müller, L. Sanchez, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, Xavier Bonnin, Hamish A. S. Reid, Stefano Livi, Thomas Wiegelmann, Andreas Lagg, N. Vilmer, David Berghmans, D. Fontaine, Arnaud Masson, Francesco Valentini, Fernando Carcaboso, Laurence Rezeau, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, I. Cernuda Cangas, David R. Williams, Shane A. Maloney, M. Haberreiter, Miho Janvier, Andrei Fedorov, Luca Teriaca, Timothy S. Horbury, Philippe Louarn, Benoit Lavraud, Christopher J. Owen, Donald M. Hassler, Georgia Tsiropoula, Etienne Pariat, L. van Driel-Gesztelyi, Athanasios Papaioannou, Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Daniel Verscharen, D. N. Baker, Federico Landini, Cis Verbeeck, S. Gissot, Louise K. Harra, L. Rodriguez-Garcia, Andrea Verdini, Baptiste Cecconi, Ioannis Kontogiannis, C. N. Arge, Andrew Walsh, Richard Morton, Marco Romoli, Daniele Telloni, Lorenzo Matteini, Eric Buchlin, Fouad Sahraoui, Roberto Bruno, Christopher H. K. Chen, Radoslav Bučík, Nicolas Labrosse, J. Lefort, K. Moraitis, N. Janitzek, Gethyn R. Lewis, M. Steller, Kostas Tziotziou, Holly Gilbert, Angels Aran, F. Felix-Redondo, Mathew J. Owens, A. S. Brun, Alexander Nindos, Alexander W. James, K. Issautier, Laurent Gizon, N. E. Raouafi, B. Fleck, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Alexis P. Rouillard, Raul Gomez-Herrero, George C. Ho, R. A. Howard, G. J. Hurford, Raffaella D'Amicis, F. Auchère, Helen O'Brien, Andrzej Fludra, J. Büchner, A. Tsounis, Roberto Susino, C. Krafft, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, Udo Schühle, Štěpán Štverák, Mihailo M. Martinović, Maurizio Pancrazzi, Guillaume Aulanier, S. P. Plunkett, Marco Stangalini, Rui F. Pinto, A. De Groof, David Stansby, Jan Soucek, S. Dolei, Andris Vaivads, Marina Battaglia, Antoine Strugarek, Anastasios Anastasiadis, K.-L. Klein, Peter R. Young, Clementina Sasso, Marco Velli, V. Krasnoselskikh, A. Retino, T. Grundy, I. Leon, O. C. St. Cyr, Ester Antonucci, European Space Agency (European Space Agency) (ESA), Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay-Sorbonne Université-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École polytechnique (X)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Czech Grant Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Subjects: Solar System, instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astronomy, observational [methods], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Methods: observational, law, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph], general [Sun], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space vehicles: instruments, space vehicles: instruments, methods: observational, Sun: general, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, MISSION, Physics, COORDINATION, INSTRUMENT, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Solar wind, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics::Space Physics, Physical Sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, PAYLOAD, Sun: general, astro-ph.SR, TELESCOPE, F300, FOS: Physical sciences, F500, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Computer Science::Digital Libraries, REGION, Orbiter, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Aerospace engineering, Solar dynamo, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Science & Technology, Spacecraft, business.industry, Ecliptic, Astronomy and Astrophysics, WIND, Physics::History of Physics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Orbit (dynamics), business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Heliosphere, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: All authors: Zouganelis, I.; De Groof, A.; Walsh, A. P.; Williams, D. R.; Müller, D.; St Cyr, O. C.; Auchère, F.; Berghmans, D.; Fludra, A.; Horbury, T. S.; Howard, R. A.; Krucker, S.; Maksimovic, M.; Owen, C. J.; Rodríguez-Pacheco, J.; Romoli, M.; Solanki, S. K.; Watson, C.; Sanchez, L.; Lefort, J.; Osuna, P.; Gilbert, H. R.; Nieves-Chinchilla, T.; Abbo, L.; Alexandrova, O.; Anastasiadis, A.; Andretta, V.; Antonucci, E.; Appourchaux, T.; Aran, A.; Arge, C. N.; Aulanier, G.; Baker, D.; Bale, S. D.; Battaglia, M.; Bellot Rubio, L.; Bemporad, A.; Berthomier, M.; Bocchialini, K.; Bonnin, X.; Brun, A. S.; Bruno, R.; Buchlin, E.; Büchner, J.; Bucik, R.; Carcaboso, F.; Carr, R.; Carrasco-Blázquez, I.; Cecconi, B.; Cernuda Cangas, I.; Chen, C. H. K.; Chitta, L. P.; Chust, T.; Dalmasse, K.; D'Amicis, R.; Da Deppo, V.; De Marco, R.; Dolei, S.; Dolla, L.; Dudok de Wit, T.; van Driel-Gesztelyi, L.; Eastwood, J. P.; Espinosa Lara, F.; Etesi, L.; Fedorov, A.; Félix-Redondo, F.; Fineschi, S.; Fleck, B.; Fontaine, D.; Fox, N. J.; Gandorfer, A.; Génot, V.; Georgoulis, M. K.; Gissot, S.; Giunta, A.; Gizon, L.; Gómez-Herrero, R.; Gontikakis, C.; Graham, G.; Green, L.; Grundy, T.; Haberreiter, M.; Harra, L. K.; Hassler, D. M.; Hirzberger, J.; Ho, G. C.; Hurford, G.; Innes, D.; Issautier, K.; James, A. W.; Janitzek, N.; Janvier, M.; Jeffrey, N.; Jenkins, J.; Khotyaintsev, Y.; Klein, K. -L.; Kontar, E. P.; Kontogiannis, I.; Krafft, C.; Krasnoselskikh, V.; Kretzschmar, M.; Labrosse, N.; Lagg, A.; Landini, F.; Lavraud, B.; Leon, I.; Lepri, S. T.; Lewis, G. R.; Liewer, P.; Linker, J.; Livi, S.; Long, D. M.; Louarn, P.; Malandraki, O.; Maloney, S.; Martinez-Pillet, V.; Martinovic, M.; Masson, A.; Matthews, S.; Matteini, L.; Meyer-Vernet, N.; Moraitis, K.; Morton, R. J.; Musset, S.; Nicolaou, G.; Nindos, A.; O'Brien, H.; Orozco Suarez, D.; Owens, M.; Pancrazzi, M.; Papaioannou, A.; Parenti, S.; Pariat, E.; Patsourakos, S.; Perrone, D.; Peter, H.; Pinto, R. F.; Plainaki, C.; Plettemeier, D.; Plunkett, S. P.; Raines, J. M.; Raouafi, N.; Reid, H.; Retino, A.; Rezeau, L.; Rochus, P.; Rodriguez, L.; Rodriguez-Garcia, L.; Roth, M.; Rouillard, A. P.; Sahraoui, F.; Sasso, C.; Schou, J.; Schühle, U.; Sorriso-Valvo, L.; Soucek, J.; Spadaro, D.; Stangalini, M.; Stansby, D.; Steller, M.; Strugarek, A.; Štverák, Š.; Susino, R.; Telloni, D.; Terasa, C.; Teriaca, L.; Toledo-Redondo, S.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Tsiropoula, G.; Tsounis, A.; Tziotziou, K.; Valentini, F.; Vaivads, A.; Vecchio, A.; Velli, M.; Verbeeck, C.; Verdini, A.; Verscharen, D.; Vilmer, N.; Vourlidas, A.; Wicks, R.; Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F.; Wiegelmann, T.; Young, P. R.; Zhukov, A. N., Solar Orbiter is the first space mission observing the solar plasma both in situ and remotely, from a close distance, in and out of the ecliptic. The ultimate goal is to understand how the Sun produces and controls the heliosphere, filling the Solar System and driving the planetary environments. With six remote-sensing and four in-situ instrument suites, the coordination and planning of the operations are essential to address the following four top-level science questions: (1) What drives the solar wind and where does the coronal magnetic field originate?; (2) How do solar transients drive heliospheric variability?; (3) How do solar eruptions produce energetic particle radiation that fills the heliosphere?; (4) How does the solar dynamo work and drive connections between the Sun and the heliosphere? Maximising the mission's science return requires considering the characteristics of each orbit, including the relative position of the spacecraft to Earth (affecting downlink rates), trajectory events (such as gravitational assist manoeuvres), and the phase of the solar activity cycle. Furthermore, since each orbit's science telemetry will be downloaded over the course of the following orbit, science operations must be planned at mission level, rather than at the level of individual orbits. It is important to explore the way in which those science questions are translated into an actual plan of observations that fits into the mission, thus ensuring that no opportunities are missed. First, the overarching goals are broken down into specific, answerable questions along with the required observations and the so-called Science Activity Plan (SAP) is developed to achieve this. The SAP groups objectives that require similar observations into Solar Orbiter Observing Plans, resulting in a strategic, top-level view of the optimal opportunities for science observations during the mission lifetime. This allows for all four mission goals to be addressed. In this paper, we introduce Solar Orbiter's SAP through a series of examples and the strategy being followed. © 2020 ESO., Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA with contributions from national agencies of ESA member states. The spacecraft has been developed by Airbus and is being operated by ESA from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. Science operations are carried out at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. SWA is an international collaboration which has been funded by the UKSA, CNES, ASI, NASA and the Czech contribution to the ESA PRODEX programme. UAH authors want to thanks the Spanish MINECO-FPI-2016 predoctoral grant with FSE, and its project FEDER/MCIU-AEEI/Proyecto ESP2017-88436-R. The Spanish contribution to SO/PHI has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through several projects, the last one being RTI2018-096886-B-C5, and by "Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa" programme under grant SEV-2017-0709. RAH, RCC, DMM, SPP, and AV acknowledge the support of the NASA Heliophysics Division, Solar Orbiter Collaboration Office under IAT NNG09EK11I. JEP acknowledges grant UKRI/STFC ST/N000692/1. All French involvements are supported by CNES and CNRS. DV is supported by the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship ST/P003826/1 and STFC Consolidated Grant ST/S000240/1. The authors thank the referee for her constructive comments and suggestions, which led to the substantial improvement of this paper.
Published: 2020

14. Coordination within the remote sensing payload on the Solar Orbiter mission

Author: O. C. St. Cyr, D. Orozco Suárez, Ester Antonucci, Sunil Sidher, Marina Battaglia, Phillip C. Chamberlin, V. Andretta, David Long, Johann Hirzberger, A. Giunta, Silvano Fineschi, N. Bach, Simon Plunkett, C. Watson, B. Mampaey, S. Fahmy, I. Tanco, S. Caminade, Andrei Zhukov, Andreas Lagg, David Berghmans, Joachim Woch, David R. Williams, G. J. Hurford, M. Haberreiter, T. Grundy, Shane A. Maloney, Donald M. Hassler, S. Parenti, J. J. Cerullo, Eric Buchlin, Sami K. Solanki, Federico Landini, A. Pacros, J. Carlyle, A. De Groof, Angelos Vourlidas, V. Martinez-Pillet, J. Lefort, Alexis P. Rouillard, Cis Verbeeck, S. Lodiot, Mats Carlsson, Gianalfredo Nicolini, T. Straus, M. Kolleck, L. Etesi, D. R. McMullin, L. Sanchez, R. A. Howard, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, Daniel Müller, Joseph M. Davila, F. Marliani, Robin C. Colaninno, F. Auchère, Lucia Kleint, A. Philippon, Andrzej Fludra, Luca Teriaca, Louise K. Harra, Udo Schühle, Marco Romoli, William T. Thompson, Holly Gilbert, Maurizio Pancrazzi, Alessandro Bemporad, P. Rochus, Säm Krucker, N. Rich, I. Zouganelis, Hardi Peter, Daniele Spadaro, Thomas Wiegelmann, Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Umeå University, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (LASP), University of Colorado [Boulder], GSFC Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Space Science and Technology Department [Didcot] (RAL Space), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)-Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC), Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College of London [London] (UCL), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Royal Observatory of Belgium [Brussels] (ROB), Trinity College Dublin, Space Systems Research Corporation (SSRC), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Cantabria [Santander], INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania (OACT), University of Kansas [Kansas City], Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence [Brussels] (STCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Space Agency (ESA), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), and European Space Agency (European Space Agency) (ESA)
Subjects: Sun: general, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Context (language use), Instrumentation: spectrographs, Instrumentation: polarimeters, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, instruments [Space vehicles], Orbiter, law, 0103 physical sciences, general [Sun], Space vehicles: instruments, spectrographs [Instrumentation], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, Physics, Earth's orbit, Data processing, polarimeters [Instrumentation], Spacecraft, instruments, instrumentation: polarimeters, instrumentation: spectrographs, telescopes [space vehicles], business.industry, Payload, Suite, Bandwidth (signal processing), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Telescopes
Abstract: Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.-- Full list of authors: Auchère, F.; Andretta, V.; Antonucci, E.; Bach, N.; Battaglia, M.; Bemporad, A.; Berghmans, D.; Buchlin, E.; Caminade, S.; Carlsson, M.; Carlyle, J.; Cerullo, J. J.; Chamberlin, P. C.; Colaninno, R. C.; Davila, J. M.; De Groof, A.; Etesi, L.; Fahmy, S.; Fineschi, S.; Fludra, A.; Gilbert, H. R.; Giunta, A.; Grundy, T.; Haberreiter, M.; Harra, L. K.; Hassler, D. M.; Hirzberger, J.; Howard, R. A.; Hurford, G.; Kleint, L.; Kolleck, M.; Krucker, S.; Lagg, A.; Landini, F.; Long, D. M.; Lefort, J.; Lodiot, S.; Mampaey, B.; Maloney, S.; Marliani, F.; Martinez-Pillet, V.; McMullin, D. R.; Müller, D.; Nicolini, G.; Orozco Suarez, D.; Pacros, A.; Pancrazzi, M.; Parenti, S.; Peter, H.; Philippon, A.; Plunkett, S.; Rich, N.; Rochus, P.; Rouillard, A.; Romoli, M.; Sanchez, L.; Schühle, U.; Sidher, S.; Solanki, S. K.; Spadaro, D.; St Cyr, O. C.; Straus, T.; Tanco, I.; Teriaca, L.; Thompson, W. T.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Verbeeck, C.; Vourlidas, A.; Watson, C.; Wiegelmann, T.; Williams, D.; Woch, J.; Zhukov, A. N.; Zouganelis, I., Context. To meet the scientific objectives of the mission, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft carries a suite of in-situ (IS) and remote sensing (RS) instruments designed for joint operations with inter-instrument communication capabilities. Indeed, previous missions have shown that the Sun (imaged by the RS instruments) and the heliosphere (mainly sampled by the IS instruments) should be considered as an integrated system rather than separate entities. Many of the advances expected from Solar Orbiter rely on this synergistic approach between IS and RS measurements. Aims. Many aspects of hardware development, integration, testing, and operations are common to two or more RS instruments. In this paper, we describe the coordination effort initiated from the early mission phases by the Remote Sensing Working Group. We review the scientific goals and challenges, and give an overview of the technical solutions devised to successfully operate these instruments together. Methods. A major constraint for the RS instruments is the limited telemetry (TM) bandwidth of the Solar Orbiter deep-space mission compared to missions in Earth orbit. Hence, many of the strategies developed to maximise the scientific return from these instruments revolve around the optimisation of TM usage, relying for example on onboard autonomy for data processing, compression, and selection for downlink. The planning process itself has been optimised to alleviate the dynamic nature of the targets, and an inter-instrument communication scheme has been implemented which can be used to autonomously alter the observing modes. We also outline the plans for in-flight cross-calibration, which will be essential to the joint data reduction and analysis. Results. The RS instrument package on Solar Orbiter will carry out comprehensive measurements from the solar interior to the inner heliosphere. Thanks to the close coordination between the instrument teams and the European Space Agency, several challenges specific to the RS suite were identified and addressed in a timely manner. © 2020 F. Auchère et al., A. V. is supported by NRL grant N00173-16-1-G029. D. M. L. is grateful to the Science Technology and Facilities Council for the award of an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (ST/R003246/1).
Published: 2020

15. Planck 2018 results: II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Author: Akrami, Y, Argüeso, F, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Benabed, K, Bernard, JP, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, JF, Colombo, LPL, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Di Valentino, E, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Donzelli, S, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Fantaye, Y, Finelli, F, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Handley, W, Hansen, FK, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Karakci, A, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Kisner, TS, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lamarre, JM, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Leahy, JP, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Ma, YZ, Maciás-Pérez, JF, Maggio, G, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Mangilli, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, McEwen, JD, Meinhold, PR, Melchiorri, A, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, and Molinari, D
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], data analysis [methods], astro-ph.CO, cosmic background radiation, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been made with respect to the previous release, especially in the calibration process and in the correction of instrumental features such as the effects of nonlinearity in the response of the analogue-to-digital converters. We provide a brief pedagogical introduction to the complete pipeline, as well as a detailed description of the important changes implemented. Self-consistency of the pipeline is demonstrated using dedicated simulations and null tests. We present the final version of the LFI full sky maps at 30, 44, and 70 GHz, both in temperature and polarization, together with a refined estimate of the solar dipole and a final assessment of the main LFI instrumental parameters.
Published: 2020

16. Planck 2018 results: II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Author: Akrami, Y., Argüeso, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Benabed, K., Bernard, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bonavera, L., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Butler, R. C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J. F., Colombo, L. P.L., Crill, B. P., Cuttaia, F., De Bernardis, P., De Rosa, A., De Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Di Valentino, E., Dickinson, C., Diego, J. M., Donzelli, S., Ducout, A., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Elsner, F., Enßlin, T. A., Eriksen, H. K., Fantaye, Y., Finelli, F., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Frolov, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Génova-Santos, R. T., Gerbino, M., Ghosh, T., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K. M., Gratton, S., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Handley, W., Hansen, F. K., Herranz, D., Hivon, E., Huang, Z., Jaffe, A. H., Jones, W. C., Karakci, A., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Kiiveri, K., Kim, Jaiseung, Kisner, T. S., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lamarre, J. M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C. R., Leahy, J. P., Levrier, F., Liguori, M., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., López-Caniego, M., Ma, Y. Z., Maciás-Pérez, J. F., Maggio, G., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Mangilli, A., Maris, M., Martin, P. G., Martínez-González, E., Matarrese, S., Mauri, N., McEwen, J. D., Meinhold, P. R., Melchiorri, A., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Molinari, D., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Moss, A., Natoli, P., Pagano, L., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Patanchon, G., Patrizii, L., Peel, M., Perrotta, F., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Puget, J. L., Rachen, J. P., Racine, B., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renzi, A., Rocha, G., Roudier, G., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Salvati, L., Sandri, M., Savelainen, M., Scott, D., Seljebotn, D. S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Spencer, L. D., Suur-Uski, A. S., Tauber, J. A., Tavagnacco, D., Tenti, M., Terenzi, L., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Trombetti, T., Valiviita, J., Vansyngel, F., Van Tent, B., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vittorio, N., Wandelt, B. D., Watson, R., Wehus, I. 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CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire de neurobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire (NBCM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Leiden University, University of Oviedo, University of Cambridge, Université Paul Sabatier, International School for Advanced Studies, University of the Western Cape, IRAP, Universidad de Cantabria, University of Padova, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Institut d 'Astrophysique de Paris, University of Milano, University of Toronto, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Université Paris-Sud, Université Pierre and Marie Curie, University of Ferrara, National Research Council of Italy, Cardiff University, California Institute of Technology, Sapienza University of Rome, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, University of Manchester, Imperial College London, European Space Astronomy Centre, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, University of Oslo, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Simon Fraser University, University of Chicago, University of La Laguna, Stockholm University, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Princeton University, Sun Yat-Sen University, University of Helsinki, Observatoire de Paris, Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, University College London, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Nottingham, Haverford College, Universidade de São Paulo, Université Paris-Saclay, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Applied Physics, University of British Columbia, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Università Degli Studi di Trieste, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California San Diego, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: instruments [Space vehicles], cosmic background radiation, space vehicles: instruments, Cosmic background radiation, data analysis [Methods], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], methods: data analysis
Abstract: International audience; We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been made with respect to the previous release, especially in the calibration process and in the correction of instrumental features such as the effects of nonlinearity in the response of the analogue-to-digital converters. We provide a brief pedagogical introduction to the complete pipeline, as well as a detailed description of the important changes implemented. Self-consistency of the pipeline is demonstrated using dedicated simulations and null tests. We present the final version of the LFI full sky maps at 30, 44, and 70 GHz, both in temperature and polarization, together with a refined estimate of the solar dipole and a final assessment of the main LFI instrumental parameters.
Published: 2020

17. Planck 2018 results

Author: Aghanim, N, Akrami, Y, Alves, MIR, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Benabed, K, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bracco, A, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Carron, J, Chary, R-R, Chiang, HC, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, de Bernardis, P, de Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J-M, Di Valentino, E, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Fantaye, Y, Fernandez-Cobos, R, Ferrière, K, Finelli, F, Forastieri, F, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Green, G, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Guillet, V, Handley, W, Hansen, FK, Helou, G, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, J-M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Le Jeune, M, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Ma, Y-Z, Macías-Pérez, JF, and Maggio, G
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], gr-qc, astro-ph.GA, statistical [methods], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, magnetic fields, Astronomy & Astrophysics, diffuse background [submillimeter], surveys, weak [gravitational lensing], data analysis [methods], cosmological parameters, inflation, ISM [submillimeter], general [Galaxy], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, polarization, theory [cosmology], general [ISM], extinction, hep-th, turbulence, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, magnetic fields [ISM], hep-ph, early Universe, observations [cosmology], diffuse radiation, astro-ph.CO, large-scale structure of Universe, dust, structure [ISM], addenda, local insterstellar matter, errata, Astronomical and Space Sciences, astro-ph.IM
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 many parameters, with residual modelling uncertainties estimated to affect them only at the 0.5σ level. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6-parameter ΛCDM cosmology having a power-law spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations (denoted "base ΛCDM"in this paper), from polarization, temperature, and lensing, separately and in combination. A combined analysis gives dark matter density ωch2 = 0.120 ± 0.001, baryon density ωbh2 = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, scalar spectral index ns = 0.965 ± 0.004, and optical depth τ = 0.054 ± 0.007 (in this abstract we quote 68% confidence regions on measured parameters and 95% on upper limits). The angular acoustic scale is measured to 0.03% precision, with 100θ∗ = 1.0411 ± 0.0003. These results are only weakly dependent on the cosmological model and remain stable, with somewhat increased errors, in many commonly considered extensions. Assuming the base-ΛCDM cosmology, the inferred (model-dependent) late-Universe parameters are: Hubble constant H0 = (67.4 ± 0.5) km s-1 Mpc-1; matter density parameter ωm = 0.315 ± 0.007; and matter fluctuation amplitude σ8 = 0.811 ± 0.006. We find no compelling evidence for extensions to the base-ΛCDM model. Combining with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements (and considering single-parameter extensions) we constrain the effective extra relativistic degrees of freedom to be Neff = 2.99 ± 0.17, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction Neff = 3.046, and find that the neutrino mass is tightly constrained to mν < 0.12 eV. The CMB spectra continue to prefer higher lensing amplitudes than predicted in base ΛCDM at over 2σ, which pulls some parameters that affect the lensing amplitude away from the ΛCDM model; however, this is not supported by the lensing reconstruction or (in models that also change the background geometry) BAO data. The joint constraint with BAO measurements on spatial curvature is consistent with a flat universe, ωK = 0.001 ± 0.002. Also combining with Type Ia supernovae (SNe), the dark-energy equation of state parameter is measured to be w0 = -1.03 ± 0.03, 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 r0.002 < 0.06. 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, 3.6σ, 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.
Published: 2020

18. Euclid: Forecast constraints on the cosmic distance duality relation with complementary external probes

Author: Jochen Weller, Rafael Toledo-Moreo, Frank Grupp, Stefano Camera, Enzo Branchini, M. Poncet, Ismael Tereno, A. Secroun, Lauro Moscardini, C. Padilla, F. Raison, Richard Massey, Knud Jahnke, Roberto P. Saglia, M. Frailis, Natalia Auricchio, T. Vassallo, Katarina Markovic, L. Popa, R. Cledassou, Ole Marggraf, Jason Rhodes, L. Conversi, Martin Kilbinger, V. Pettorino, M. Fumana, Luca Valenziano, Martin Kunz, Massimo Meneghetti, Niraj Welikala, Matteo Martinelli, Santiago Serrano, Massimo Brescia, Franck Sureau, P. B. Lilje, C. Bodendorf, Bianca Garilli, E. Franceschi, Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan, F. Pasian, Stefano Cavuoti, Andrea Zacchei, I. Tutusaus, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Thomas D. Kitching, V. Yankelevich, W. Holmes, Savvas Nesseris, Stéphane Paltani, G. Polenta, Ivan Lloro, Peter Schneider, Georges Meylan, Sandrine Pires, S. Ilić, S. Casas, J. Carretero, Carmelita Carbone, B. Gillis, Yu Wang, Marco Castellano, Carlos Martins, Lucia Pozzetti, D. Bonino, B. Kubik, C. Sirignano, Z. Sakr, Anne Ealet, Jarle Brinchmann, Mauro Roncarelli, A. N. Taylor, V. Capobianco, A. Balestra, F. Dubath, Domenico Sapone, Anastasios Avgoustidis, Leonardo Corcione, G. Sirri, S. Kermiche, Sebastiano Ligori, Felix Hormuth, Simona Mei, G. Congedo, Carlo Giocoli, Sami Niemi, La Caixa, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Fundación Severo Ochoa, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Martinelli M., Martins C.J.A.P., Nesseris S., Sapone D., Tutusaus I., Avgoustidis A., Camera S., Carbone C., Casas S., Ilic S., Sakr Z., Yankelevich V., Auricchio N., Balestra A., Bodendorf C., Bonino D., Branchini E., Brescia M., Brinchmann J., Capobianco V., Carretero J., Castellano M., Cavuoti S., Cledassou R., Congedo G., Conversi L., Corcione L., Dubath F., Ealet A., Frailis M., Franceschi E., Fumana M., Garilli B., Gillis B., Giocoli C., Grupp F., Haugan S.V.H., Holmes W., Hormuth F., Jahnke K., Kermiche S., Kilbinger M., Kitching T.D., Kubik B., Kunz M., Kurki-Suonio H., Ligori S., Lilje P.B., Lloro I., Marggraf O., Markovic K., Massey R., Mei S., Meneghetti M., Meylan G., Moscardini L., Niemi S., Padilla C., Paltani S., Pasian F., Pettorino V., Pires S., Polenta G., Poncet M., Popa L., Pozzetti L., Raison F., Rhodes J., Roncarelli M., Saglia R., Schneider P., Secroun A., Serrano S., Sirignano C., Sirri G., Sureau F., Taylor A.N., Tereno I., Toledo-Moreo R., Valenziano L., Vassallo T., Wang Y., Welikala N., Weller J., Zacchei A., Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), EUCLID, ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Martinelli, M., Martins, C. J. A. P., Nesseris, S., Sapone, D., Tutusaus, I., Avgoustidis, A., Camera, S., Carbone, C., Casas, S., Ilic, S., Sakr, Z., Yankelevich, V., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carretero, J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Corcione, L., Dubath, F., Ealet, A., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T. D., Kubik, B., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Mei, S., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rhodes, J., Roncarelli, M., Saglia, R., Schneider, P., Secroun, A., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Sureau, F., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Weller, J., and Zacchei, A.
Subjects: cosmological model, Cosmological parameter, statistical [Methods], SAMPLE, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Methods: data analysis, Methods: statistical, Space vehicles: instruments, Surveys, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, INTERGALACTIC DUST, Cosmology: observation, current: constraint, parameter space, space vehicles: instruments, observations [Cosmology], data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, SCALE, Parametric statistics, Physics, new physics, photon, EXPANSION, GALAXIES, Metric (mathematics), astro-ph.CO, duality, Baryon acoustic oscillations, cosmology: observations / cosmological parameters / surveys / methods: data analysis / methods: statistical / space vehicles: instruments, Algorithm, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), REDSHIFT, Duality (optimization), FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Context (language use), Lambda-CDM model, gravitation: metric, parametric, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Space vehicles: instrument, instruments [Space vehicles], statistical analysis, instrument [Space vehicles], 0103 physical sciences, conservation law, Point (geometry), cosmological parameters, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE, 115 Astronomy, Space science, methods: data analysis, data analysi [Methods], Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, COSMOLOGY, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], BARYON ACOUSTIC-OSCILLATIONS, Methods: data analysi
Abstract: [Context] In metric theories of gravity with photon number conservation, the luminosity and angular diameter distances are related via the Etherington relation, also known as the distance duality relation (DDR). A violation of this relation would rule out the standard cosmological paradigm and point to the presence of new physics. Aims. We quantify the ability of Euclid, in combination with contemporary surveys, to improve the current constraints on deviations from the DDR in the redshift range 0 < z < 1.6., [Methods] We start with an analysis of the latest available data, improving previously reported constraints by a factor of 2.5. We then present a detailed analysis of simulated Euclid and external data products, using both standard parametric methods (relying on phenomenological descriptions of possible DDR violations) and a machine learning reconstruction using genetic algorithms., [Results] We find that for parametric methods Euclid can (in combination with external probes) improve current constraints by approximately a factor of six, while for non-parametric methods Euclid can improve current constraints by a factor of three.; [Conclusions] Our results highlight the importance of surveys like Euclid in accurately testing the pillars of the current cosmological paradigm and constraining physics beyond the standard cosmological model., MM has received the support of a fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434), with fellowship code LCF/BQ/PI19/11690015, and the support of the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion through the grant “IFT Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2016-0597”. The work of CJM was financed by FEDER – Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional funds through the COMPETE 2020 – Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), and by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia in the framework of the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028987. S.N. acknowledges support from the research project PGC2018-094773-B-C32, the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2016-059 and the Ramón y Cajal program through Grant No. RYC-2014-15843. D.S. acknowledges financial support from the Fondecyt Regular project number 1200171. I.T. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through grant ESP2017-89838-C3-1-R, and the H2020 programme of the European Commission through grant 776247. A.A. acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grant ST/P000703/1. V.Y. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 769130)
Published: 2020

19. mirisim : a simulator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST

Author: Olivia Jones, Vincent Geers, Adrian M. Glauser, A. Coulais, A. D. O'Brien, David R. Law, Benjamin A. Sargent, Kristen Murray, C. Cossou, Steven Beard, W. De Meester, G. S. Wright, Alistair Glasse, Jeroen Bouwman, R. Gastaud, Ruyman Azzollini, J. Schreiber, Misty Cracraft, M. Topinka, Pamela Klaassen, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Mid infrared, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Software, law, 0103 physical sciences, space vehicles: instruments, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Simulation, computer.programming_language, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Science & Technology, Spectrometer, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], business.industry, James Webb Space Telescope, Detector, WEBB-SPACE-TELESCOPE, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Python (programming language), Metadata, Space and Planetary Science, Physical Sciences, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, computer
Abstract: The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has imaging, four coronagraphs and both low and medium resolution spectroscopic modes . Being able to simulate MIRI observations will help commissioning of the instrument, as well as get users familiar with representative data. We designed the MIRI instrument simulator (MIRISim) to mimic the on-orbit performance of the MIRI imager and spectrometers using the Calibration Data Products (CDPs) developed by the MIRI instrument team. The software encorporates accurate representations of the detectors, slicers, distortions, and noise sources along the light path including the telescope's radiative background and cosmic rays. The software also includes a module which enables users to create astronomical scenes to simulate. MIRISim is a publicly available Python package that can be run at the command line, or from within Python. The outputs of MIRISim are detector images in the same uncalibrated data format that will be delivered to MIRI users. These contain the necessary metadata for ingestion by the JWST calibration pipeline., 10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Published: 2020
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20. Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) Observations of Titan 2004–2017

Author: Athena Coustenis, Donald E. Jennings, Nicholas A. Lombardo, Nicholas A Teanby, Conor A. Nixon, Gordon L. Bjoraker, Regis Courtin, Paul N. Romani, Carrie M. Anderson, F. Michael Flasar, Bruno Bézard, Sandrine Vinatier, Valeria Cottini, Robert E. Samuelson, Todd M. Ansty, Richard Achterberg, A. M. Annex, Emmanuel Lellouch, Malena Rice, Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Laboratoire d'Étude des Systèmes Informatiques et Automatiques (LESIA-INSA), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, interferometers [instrumentation], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, individual (Titan) [planets and satellites], symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, planetary systems [infrared], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Thermal infrared, Spacecraft, business.industry, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary system, atmospheres [planets and satellites], On board, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], symbols, spectroscopic [techniques], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Titan (rocket family), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: From 2004 to 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, completing 127 close flybys of its largest moon, Titan. Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS), one of 12 instruments carried on board, profiled Titan in the thermal infrared (7-1000 microns) throughout the entire 13-year mission. CIRS observed on both targeted encounters (flybys) and more distant opportunities, collecting 8.4 million spectra from 837 individual Titan observations over 3633 hours. Observations of multiple types were made throughout the mission, building up a vast mosaic picture of Titan's atmospheric state across spatial and temporal domains. This paper provides a guide to these observations, describing each type and chronicling its occurrences and global-seasonal coverage. The purpose is to provide a resource for future users of the CIRS data set, as well as those seeking to put existing CIRS publications into the overall context of the mission, and to facilitate future inter-comparison of CIRS results with those of other Cassini instruments, and ground-based observations., Comment: 62 pages, 31 figures, 10 tables. CSV format table data included
Published: 2019

21. Predictions of the WFIRST Microlensing Survey. I. Bound Planet Detection Rates

Author: Eamonn Kerins, Matthew T. Penny, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, B. Scott Gaudi, Shude Mao, Annie C. Robin, Sebastiano Calchi Novati, Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], detection [planets and satellites], gravitational lensing, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Gravitational microlensing, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Telescope, detectionspace vehicles, law, Primary (astronomy), Planet, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, James Webb Space Telescope, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Exoplanet, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, instruments, micro [gravitational lensing], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Planetary mass, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, microplanets and satellites
Abstract: The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is the next NASA astrophysics flagship mission, to follow the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The WFIRST mission was chosen as the top-priority large space mission of the 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey in order to achieve three primary goals: to study dark energy via a wide-field imaging survey, to study exoplanets via a microlensing survey, and to enable a guest observer program. Here we assess the ability of the several WFIRST designs to achieve the goal of the microlensing survey to discover a large sample of cold, low-mass exoplanets with semimajor axes beyond roughly one AU, which are largely impossible to detect with any other technique. We present the results of a suite of simulations that span the full range of the proposed WFIRST architectures, from the original design envisioned by the decadal survey, to the current design, which utilizes a 2.4-m telescope donated to NASA. By studying such a broad range of architectures, we are able to determine the impact of design trades on the expected yields of detected exoplanets. In estimating the yields we take particular care to ensure that our assumed Galactic model predicts microlensing event rates that match observations, consider the impact that inaccuracies in the Galactic model might have on the yields, and ensure that numerical errors in lightcurve computations do not bias the yields for the smallest mass exoplanets. For the nominal baseline WFIRST design and a fiducial planet mass function, we predict that a total of ${\sim}1400$ bound exoplanets with mass greater than ${\sim}0.1~M_{\oplus}$ should be detected, including ${\sim}200$ with mass ${\lesssim}3~M_{\oplus}$. WFIRST should have sensitivity to planets with mass down to ${\sim}0.02~M_{\oplus}$, or roughly the mass of Ganymede., 43 pages, 26 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to AAS journals
Published: 2019

22. Planck 2015 results: I. Overview of products and scientific results

Author: Adam, R, Ade, PAR, Aghanim, N, Akrami, Y, Alves, MIR, Arguëso, F, Arnaud, M, Arroja, F, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartlett, JG, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battaglia, P, Battaner, E, Battye, R, Benabed, K, Benoît, A, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, JP, Bersanelli, M, Bertincourt, B, Bielewicz, P, Bikmaev, I, Bock, JJ, Böhringer, H, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burenin, R, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, JF, Carvalho, P, Casaponsa, B, Castex, G, Catalano, A, Challinor, A, Chamballu, A, Chary, RR, Chiang, HC, Chluba, J, Chon, G, Christensen, PR, Church, S, Clemens, M, Clements, DL, Colombi, S, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Comis, B, Contreras, D, Couchot, F, Coulais, A, Crill, BP, Cruz, M, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, JM, Désert, FX, Di Valentino, E, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Dolag, K, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dunkley, J, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Eisenhardt, PRM, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Fantaye, Y, Farhang, M, Feeney, S, Fergusson, J, Fernandez-Cobos, R, Feroz, F, Finelli, F, Challinor, Anthony [0000-0003-3479-7823], Fergusson, James [0000-0003-4820-171X], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], detectors [instrumentation], instrumentation: detectors, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Astronomy & Astrophysics, observations [cosmology], surveys, cosmology: observations, astro-ph.CO, space vehicles: instruments, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which is 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. In February 2015, ESA and the Planck Collaboration released the second set of cosmology products based ondata from the entire Planck mission, including both temperature and polarization, along with a set of scientific and technical papers and a web-based explanatory supplement. This paper gives an overview of the main characteristics of the data and the data products in the release, as well as the associated cosmological and astrophysical science results and papers. The data products include maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, diffuse foregrounds in temperature and polarization, catalogues of compact Galactic and extragalactic sources (including separate catalogues of Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters and Galactic cold clumps), and extensive simulations of signals and noise used in assessing uncertainties and the performance of the analysis methods. The likelihood code used to assess cosmological models against the Planck data is described, along with a CMB lensing likelihood. Scientific results include cosmological parameters derived from CMB power spectra, gravitational lensing, and cluster counts, as well as constraints on inflation, non-Gaussianity, primordial magnetic fields, dark energy, and modified gravity, and new results on low-frequency Galactic foregrounds.
Published: 2019
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23. Characterization of the in-flight properties of the Planck telescope

Author: F. Cuttaia, Carlo Burigana, Luca Terenzi, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Ken Ganga, L. Toffolatti, G. Roudier, Fabrizio Villa, J.-P. Bernard, Charles R. Lawrence, J.-L. Puget, W. C. Jones, Douglas Scott, P. H. Nielsen, B. Partridge, Carol Anne Oxborrow, Peter Meinhold, J. A. Tauber, Jon E. Gudmundsson, A. Martín-Polegre, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, B. P. Crill, E. Franceschi, N. Mandolesi, M. Sandri, Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), ITA, USA, FRA, DEU, DNK, FIN, SWE, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)
Subjects: media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics, Grating, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, instruments [Space vehicles], Telescope, symbols.namesake, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, space vehicles: instruments, Planck, data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, telescopes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, methods: data analysis, Amplitude, Cardinal point, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Metric (mathematics), symbols, business, Geometric modeling, Telescopes
Abstract: CSIC (Spain); MICINN (Spain); JA (Spain), Tauber, J.A., Nielsen, P.H., Martín-Polegre, A., Crill, B., Cuttaia, F., Ganga, K., Gudmundsson, J., Jones, W., Lawrence, C., Meinhold, P., Norgaard-Nielsen, H.U., Oxborrow, C.A., Partridge, B., Roudier, G., Sandri, M., Scott, D., Terenzi, L., Villa, F., Bernard, J.P., Burigana, C., Franceschi, E., Kurki-Suonio, H., Mandolesi, N., Puget, J.L., Toffolatti, L.
Published: 2019

24. Rosetta/OSIRIS observations of the 67P nucleus during the April 2016 flyby: High-resolution spectrophotometry

Author: H. U. Keller, Alice Lucchetti, M. De Cecco, Giampiero Naletto, D. Bodewits, Monica Lazzarin, Francesco Marzari, R. Rodrigo, P. J. Gutiérrez, Maurizio Pajola, Sonia Fornasier, J. D. P. Deshapriya, Stefano Debei, F. La Forgia, A. Barucci, J. J. López-Moreno, V. Da Deppo, Frank Preusker, Wing-Huen Ip, Philippe Lamy, Matteo Massironi, C. Feller, Holger Sierks, Pedro Hasselmann, Gabriele Cremonese, Björn Davidsson, Cecilia Tubiana, Luisa Lara, B. Gaskell, Carsten Güttler, Frank Scholten, Ivano Bertini, Marco Fulle, Sabrina Ferrari, Xian Shi, Stefano Mottola, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Detlef Koschny, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Padova] (IFN), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA, Department of Physics [Auburn], Auburn University (AU), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], University of Trento [Trento], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan] (IANCU), National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Space Science Institute [Macau] (SSI), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Feller, C. [0000-0002-2941-3875], Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737, German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Space Agency, Swedish National Space Agency, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IMPEC - LATMOS, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), and Technische Universität Braunschweig [Braunschweig]
Subjects: Asteroiden und Kometen, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, techniques: image processing, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [Comets], Frost line, Spectrophotometry, Spectral slope, Methods, Churyumov–Gerasimenko, image processing [Techniques], space vehicles: instruments, data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Resolution (electron density), Comets, Data analysis, Image processing, Individual, Instruments, Space vehicles, Techniques, individual: 67P [Comets], Comet, FOS: Physical sciences, Terrain, Context (language use), instruments [Space vehicles], 0103 physical sciences, medicine, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Planetengeodäsie, space vehicles – space vehicles: instruments – comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko – techniques: image processing – methods: data analysis, Astronomy and Astrophysics, biology.organism_classification, methods: data analysis, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Osiris, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: From August 2014 to September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft followed comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko along its orbit. After the comet passed perihelion, Rosetta performed a flyby manoeuvre over the Imhotep-Khepry transition in April 2016. The OSIRIS/Narrow-Angle-Camera (NAC) acquired 112 observations with mainly three broadband filters (centered at 480, 649, and 743 nm) at a resolution of up to 0.53 m/px and for phase angles between 0.095 degrees and 62 degrees. Aims. We have investigated the morphological and spectrophotometrical properties of this area using the OSIRIS/NAC high-resolution observations. Methods. We assembled the observations into coregistered color cubes. Using a 3D shape model, we produced the illumination conditions and georeference for each observation. We mapped the observations of the transition to investigate its geomorphology. Observations were photometrically corrected using the Lommel-Seeliger disk law. Spectrophotometric analyses were performed on the coregistered color cubes. These data were used to estimate the local phase reddening. Results. The Imhotep-Khepry transition hosts numerous and varied types of terrains and features. We observe an association between a feature's nature, its reflectance, and its spectral slopes. Fine material deposits exhibit an average reflectance and spectral slope, while terrains with diamictons, consolidated material, degraded outcrops, or features such as somber boulders present a lower-than-average reflectance and higher-than-average spectral slope. Bright surfaces present here a spectral behavior consistent with terrains enriched in water-ice. We find a phase-reddening slope of 0.064 +/- 0.001%/100 nm/degrees at 2.7 au outbound, similar to the one obtained at 2.3 au inbound during the February 2015 flyby. Conclusions. Identified as the source region of multiple jets and a host of water-ice material, the Imhotep-Khepry transition appeared in April 2016, close to the frost line, to further harbor several potential locations with exposed water-ice material among its numerous different morphological terrain units.© ESO 2019, OSIRIS was built by a consortium of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung, Gottingen, Germany, CISAS-University of Padova, Italy, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Granada, Spain, Research and Scientific Support Department of the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain, Department of Physics and Astronomy of Uppsala University, Sweden, and Institut fur Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze der Technischen Universitat Braunschweig, Germany. The support of the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain (MEC), Sweden (SNSB), and the ESA Technical Directorate is gratefully acknowledged. Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES, and ASI. The SPICE libraries and PDS resources are developed and maintained by NASA. The authors thank the referee and editors for their questions, remarks, and advices for the improvement of this article.
Published: 2019

25. The Asteroseismic Target List (ATL) for solar-like oscillators observed in 2-minute cadence with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Author: V. Silva Aguirre, O. L. Creevey, T. L. Campante, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Latham, M. N. Lund, T. S. Metcalfe, H. Kjeldsen, Rasmus Handberg, S. Basu, T. Appourchaux, Warrick H. Ball, R. Vanderspek, George R. Ricker, Timothy R. Bedding, Andrea Miglio, Daniel Huber, William J. Chaplin, Rafael A. García, S. D. Kawaler, A. M. Serenelli, Guy R. Davies, D. Stello, Mathew Schofield, Department of Psychology, St John's University, Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE-ERSS), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département des Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement/Océanologie [Liège], Université de Liège, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Astronomy, Yale University [New Haven], Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), The University of Sydney, Danish AsteroSeismology Centre (DASC), Aarhus University [Aarhus], Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Research institute of Computer Vision and Robotics [Girona] (VICOROB), Universitat de Girona (UdG), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Iowa City], and University of Iowa [Iowa City]
Subjects: oscillations [stars], Source code, instruments [space vehicles], media_common.quotation_subject, fundamental parameters [stars], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Asteroseismology, surveys, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Subgiant, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Exoplanet, Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Satellite, Cadence, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs
Abstract: We present the target list of solar-type stars to be observed in short-cadence (2-min) for asteroseismology by the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2-year nominal survey mission. The solar-like Asteroseismic Target List (ATL) is comprised of bright, cool main-sequence and subgiant stars and forms part of the larger target list of the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC). The ATL uses Gaia DR2 and the Extended Hipparcos Compilation (XHIP) to derive fundamental stellar properties, calculate detection probabilities and produce a rank-ordered target list. We provide a detailed description of how the ATL was produced and calculate expected yields for solar-like oscillators based on the nominal photometric performance by TESS. We also provide publicly available source code which can be used to reproduce the ATL, thereby enabling comparisons of asteroseismic results from TESS with predictions from synthetic stellar populations., Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Published: 2019
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26. Synthesis of the morphological description of cometary dust at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Author: Martin Hilchenbach, Klaus Hornung, Alberto Flandes, Jérémie Lasue, Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Giovanna Rinaldi, Stavro Ivanovski, Marco Fulle, Harald Krüger, Andrea Longobardo, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Dennis Bodewits, Stefano Mottola, Yves Langevin, C. Güttler, Gianrico Filacchione, Ivano Bertini, G. P. Tozzi, Holger Sierks, Jürgen Blum, J. Agarwal, Fabrizio Capaccioni, Giampiero Naletto, Thurid Mannel, F. Moreno, Alessandra Rotundi, Imre Tóth, Sihane Merouane, V. Della Corte, John Paquette, Cecilia Tubiana, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences (IWF), Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Institute of Physics [Graz], Karl-Franzens-Universität [Graz, Autriche], Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF (IAPS), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie [Napoli] (DIST), Universita degli studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' [Napoli], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Milano] (IFN), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Instituto de Geofisica [Mexico], Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Physics [Auburn], Auburn University (AU), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Universität der Bundeswehr München [Neubiberg], Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences [Budapest], Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)-Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' = University of Naples (PARTHENOPE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), University of Graz, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IMPEC - LATMOS, Technische Universität Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ITA, FRA, DEU, and ESP
Subjects: Asteroiden und Kometen, instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, comets: general – comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – space vehicles: instruments, Computer science, Comet, Individual, 01 natural sciences, Space exploration, Astrobiology, Interplanetary dust cloud, individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [Comets], 0103 physical sciences, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - space vehicles, Comets, General - comets, Instruments, Instrumentation (computer programming), space vehicles: instruments, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [Comets], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Common framework, Comets: general, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science
Abstract: Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access funding provided by Max Planck Society., Before Rosetta, the space missions Giotto and Stardust shaped our view on cometary dust, supported by plentiful data from Earth based observations and interplanetary dust particles collected in the Earth's atmosphere. The Rosetta mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was equipped with a multitude of instruments designed to study cometary dust. While an abundant amount of data was presented in several individual papers, many focused on a dedicated measurement or topic. Different instruments, methods, and data sources provide different measurement parameters and potentially introduce different biases. This can be an advantage if the complementary aspect of such a complex data set can be exploited. However, it also poses a challenge in the comparison of results in the first place. The aim of this work therefore is to summarize dust results from Rosetta and before. We establish a simple classification as a common framework for intercomparison. This classification is based on the dust particle structure, porosity, and strength and also on its size. Depending on the instrumentation, these are not direct measurement parameters, but we chose them because they were the most reliable for deriving our model. The proposed classification has proved helpful in the Rosetta dust community, and we offer it here also for a broader context. In this manner, we hope to better identify synergies between different instruments and methods in the future.© C. Güttler et al. 2019
Published: 2019

27. Temperature stability in the sub-milliHertz band with LISA Pathfinder

Author: Ferran Gibert, A. Cesarini, G. Russano, Peter Zweifel, Daniele Vetrugno, F. Rivas, S. Vitale, Michael Perreur-Lloyd, A. Wittchen, P. Pivato, Jacob Slutsky, Valerio Ferroni, Pierre Binétruy, Mauro Hueller, Gudrun Wanner, D. Hoyland, B. Kaune, C. Trenkel, Antoine Petiteau, Juan Ramos-Castro, Gerhard Heinzel, Daniel Hollington, G. Dixon, Paul McNamara, Ivan Lloro, R. Giusteri, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Davor Mance, Ph. Jetzer, M. Born, D. Texier, C. Mansanet, D. I. Robertson, Domenico Giardini, Antonella Cavalleri, Rita Dolesi, Ingo Diepholz, L. Martin-Polo, T. J. Sumner, L. Liu, J. Martino, D. Wealthy, Karsten Danzmann, Peter Wass, Heather Audley, E. Castelli, L. Wissel, Luigi Ferraioli, J. Baird, Ignacio Mateos, Christian J. Killow, Michele Armano, N. Korsakova, I. Harrison, N. Meshksar, J. A. Lobo, M. Freschi, S. Paczkowski, E. D. Fitzsimons, Eric Plagnol, V. Martín, Nikolaos Karnesis, J. Grzymisch, H. Ward, José F. F. Mendes, W. J. Weber, M. Hewitson, Oliver Jennrich, J. Reiche, Lluis Gesa, H. Inchauspé, Jose Sanjuan, James Ira Thorpe, R. Maarschalkerweerd, Catia Grimani, M. de Deus Silva, F. Martin-Porqueras, Daniele Bortoluzzi, L. Mendes, A. M. Cruise, Miquel Nofrarías, J. P. López-Zaragoza, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), LISA Pathfinder, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: detector: satellite, interferometer, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Low frequency, 01 natural sciences, Transfer function, Temperature measurement, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Gravitational waves, temperature: fluctuation, Instruments [Space vehicles], Ones gravitacionals, 0103 physical sciences, noise: thermal, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Física::Relativitat::Gravitació [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], space vehicles: instruments, Aerospace engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, LISA, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, business.industry, gravitational radiation, Time evolution, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, gravitational radiation detector, Interferometry, frequency: low, Pathfinder, gravitational waves, gravitational waves – space vehicles: instruments, Space and Planetary Science, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], temperature: stability, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Aeronàutica i espai::Astronàutica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], business, Noise (radio)
Abstract: LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a technology pioneering mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. In the low frequency regime (milli-Hertz and below), where space-based gravitational wave observatories will operate, temperature fluctuations play a crucial role since they can couple into the interferometric measurement and the test masses' free-fall accuracy in many ways. A dedicated temperature measurement subsystem, with noise levels in 10$\,\mu$K$\,$Hz$^{-1/2}$ down to $1\,$mHz was part of the diagnostics unit on board LPF. In this paper we report on the temperature measurements throughout mission operations, characterize the thermal environment, estimate transfer functions between different locations and report temperature stability (and its time evolution) at frequencies as low as 10$\,\mu$Hz, where typically values around $1\,$K$\,$Hz$^{-1/2}$ were measured., Comment: 13 pages, 16 figures. MNRAS LaTeX style file version 3.0
Published: 2019

28. Planck 2018 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Author: Planck Collaboration, Akrami, Y., Arg��eso, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Benabed, K., Bernard, J. -P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bonavera, L., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Butler, R. C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J. -F., Colombo, L. P. L., Crill, B. P., Cuttaia, F., de Bernardis, P., de Rosa, A., de Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Di Valentino, E., Dickinson, C., Diego, J. M., Donzelli, S., Ducout, A., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Elsner, F., En��lin, T. A., Eriksen, H. K., Fantaye, Y., Finelli, F., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Frolov, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., G��nova-Santos, R. T., Gerbino, M., Ghosh, T., Gonz��lez-Nuevo, J., G��rski, K. M., Gratton, S., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Handley, W., Hansen, F. K., Herranz, D., Hivon, E., Huang, Z., Jaffe, A. H., Jones, W. C., Karakci, A., Keih��nen, E., Keskitalo, R., Kiiveri, K., Kim, J., Kisner, T. S., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lamarre, J. -M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C. R., Leahy, J. P., Levrier, F., Liguori, M., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., L��pez-Caniego, M., Ma, Y. -Z., Mac��as-P��rez, J. F., Maggio, G., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Mangilli, A., Maris, M., Martin, P. G., Mart��nez-Gonz��lez, E., Matarrese, S., Mauri, N., McEwen, J. D., Meinhold, P. R., Melchiorri, A., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Molinari, D., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Moss, A., Natoli, P., Pagano, L., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Patanchon, G., Patrizii, L., Peel, M., Perrotta, F., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Puget, J. -L., Rachen, J. P., Racine, B., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renzi, A., Rocha, G., Roudier, G., Rubi��o-Mart��n, J. A., Salvati, L., Sandri, M., Savelainen, M., Scott, D., Seljebotn, D. S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Spencer, L. D., Suur-Uski, A. -S., Tauber, J. A., Tavagnacco, D., Tenti, M., Terenzi, L., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Trombetti, T., Valiviita, J., Vansyngel, F., Van Tent, B., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vittorio, N., Wandelt, B. D., Watson, R., Wehus, I. K., Zacchei, A., Zonca, A., Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Astrophysique, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Patrimoine, Littérature, Histoire (PLH), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CentraleSupélec, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Universidade Aberta [Lisboa], Dipartimento di Fisica [Roma La Sapienza], Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Laboratory for Phytosanitary Diagnostics and Forecasts, All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences [Ann Arbor] (AOSS), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), ICRA and Physics Department, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Dipartimento di Fisica 'G. Galilei', Universita degli Studi di Padova, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information (CEA-LETI), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), University of Manchester [Manchester], Venetian Institute Molecular Medicine (VIMM), University of British Columbia (UBC), Laboratoire de neurobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire (NBCM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Psychology, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Planck Collaboration, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay [Orsay] (LPT), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Planck, European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), European Research Council, European Space Agency, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Universidad de Cantabria, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2020-....] (UGA [2020-....])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology [2020-....] (Grenoble INP [2020-....]), Université Grenoble Alpes [2020-....] (UGA [2020-....]), Akrami Y., Argueso F., Ashdown M., Aumont J., Baccigalupi C., Ballardini M., Banday A.J., Barreiro R.B., Bartolo N., Basak S., Benabed K., Bernard J.-P., Bersanelli M., Bielewicz P., Bonavera L., Bond J.R., Borrill J., Bouchet F.R., Boulanger F., Bucher M., Burigana C., Butler R.C., Calabrese E., Cardoso J.-F., Colombo L.P.L., Crill B.P., Cuttaia F., De Bernardis P., De Rosa A., De Zotti G., Delabrouille J., Di Valentino E., Dickinson C., Diego J.M., Donzelli S., Ducout A., Dupac X., Efstathiou G., Elsner F., Ensslin T.A., Eriksen H.K., Fantaye Y., Finelli F., Frailis M., Franceschi E., Frolov A., Galeotta S., Galli S., Ganga K., Genova-Santos R.T., Gerbino M., Ghosh T., Gonzalez-Nuevo J., Gorski K.M., Gratton S., Gruppuso A., Gudmundsson J.E., Handley W., Hansen F.K., Herranz D., Hivon E., Huang Z., Jaffe A.H., Jones W.C., Karakci A., Keihanen E., Keskitalo R., Kiiveri K., Kim J., Kisner T.S., Krachmalnicoff N., Kunz M., Kurki-Suonio H., Lamarre J.-M., Lasenby A., Lattanzi M., Lawrence C.R., Leahy J.P., Levrier F., Liguori M., Lilje P.B., Lindholm V., Lopez-Caniego M., Ma Y.-Z., Macias-Perez J.F., Maggio G., Maino D., Mandolesi N., Mangilli A., Maris M., Martin P.G., Martinez-Gonzalez E., Matarrese S., Mauri N., McEwen J.D., Meinhold P.R., Melchiorri A., Mennella A., Migliaccio M., Molinari D., Montier L., Morgante G., Moss A., Natoli P., Pagano L., Paoletti D., Partridge B., Patanchon G., Patrizii L., Peel M., Perrotta F., Pettorino V., Piacentini F., Polenta G., Puget J.-L., Rachen J.P., Racine B., Reinecke M., Remazeilles M., Renzi A., Rocha G., Roudier G., Rubino-Martin J.A., Salvati L., Sandri M., Savelainen M., Scott D., Seljebotn D.S., Sirignano C., Sirri G., Spencer L.D., Suur-Uski A.-S., Tauber J.A., Tavagnacco D., Tenti M., Terenzi L., Toffolatti L., Tomasi M., Trombetti T., Valiviita J., Vansyngel F., Van Tent B., Vielva P., Villa F., Vittorio N., Wandelt B.D., Watson R., Wehus I.K., Zacchei A., and Zonca A.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), COMPONENT SEPARATION, POWER SPECTRUM, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation, Cosmic background radiation, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, NO, instruments [Space vehicles], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Cosmic background radiation, Methods: data analysis, Space vehicles: instruments, 0103 physical sciences, space vehicles: instruments, MICROWAVE, data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ANÁLISE DE DADOS, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/05, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, methods: data analysis, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Methods: data analysi, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Planck Collaboration: et al., arXiv:1807.06206v2, We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been made with respect to the previous release, especially in the calibration process and in the correction of instrumental features such as the effects of nonlinearity in the response of the analogue-to-digital converters. We provide a brief pedagogical introduction to the complete pipeline, as well as a detailed description of the important changes implemented. Self-consistency of the pipeline is demonstrated using dedicated simulations and null tests. We present the final version of the LFI full sky maps at 30, 44, and 70 GHz, both in temperature and polarization, together with a refined estimate of the solar dipole and a final assessment of the main LFI instrumental parameters., 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).
Published: 2018

29. Plasma source and loss at comet 67P during the Rosetta mission

Author: Marina Galand, Arnaud Beth, K. L. Heritier, Martin Rubin, Rajkumar Hajra, Kathrin Altwegg, Pierre Henri, Elsa Ducrot, F. L. Johansson, Xavier Vallières, Anders Eriksson, James L. Burch, Chris Carr, Imperial College London, Space and Atmospheric Physics Group [London], Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London-Imperial College London, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala] (IRF), Department of Physics [Imperial College London], Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna] (IRF), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern], Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio] (SwRI), ANR-15-CE31-0009,SPECTRA,Sonder le Plasma dans l'Environnement d'une ComètE avec RosettA(2015), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and European Space Agency / Estec
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, INTERACTION REGIONS, Comet, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, CROSS-SECTIONS, law.invention, Ion, general [comets], Orbiter, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, law, Ionization, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, ELECTRON COLLISIONS, ION, space vehicles: instruments, PROBE, TEMPERATURE, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Science & Technology, comets: general, MAGNETIC-FIELD, 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, plasmas, MODEL, Solar wind, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Physical Sciences, RPC, Ionosphere
Abstract: Context.The Rosetta spacecraft provided us with a unique opportunity to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) from a close perspective and over a 2-yr time period. Comet 67P is a weakly active comet. It was therefore unexpected to find an active and dynamic ionosphere where the cometary ions were largely dominant over the solar wind ions, even at large heliocentric distances.Aims.Our goal is to understand the different drivers of the cometary ionosphere and assess their variability over time and over the different conditions encountered by the comet during the Rosetta mission.Methods.We used a multi-instrument data-based ionospheric model to compute the total ion number density at the position of Rosetta. In-situ measurements from the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) and the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC)–Ion and Electron Sensor (IES), together with the RPC–LAngmuir Probe instrument (LAP) were used to compute the local ion total number density. The results are compared to the electron densities measured by RPC–Mutual Impedance Probe (MIP) and RPC–LAP.Results.We were able to disentangle the physical processes responsible for the formation of the cometary ions throughout the 2-yr escort phase and we evaluated their respective magnitudes. The main processes are photo-ionization and electron-impact ionization. The latter is a significant source of ionization at large heliocentric distance (>2 au) and was predominant during the last 4 months of the mission. The ionosphere was occasionally subject to singular solar events, temporarily increasing the ambient energetic electron population. Solar photons were the main ionizer near perihelion at 1.3 au from the Sun, during summer 2015.
Published: 2018

30. Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution

Author: Luciana Bianchi, A. de Torres, Geraldine Bourda, G. Comoretto, Werner Hofmann, David Hobbs, Iain A. Steele, M. Biermann, Alex Bombrun, U. Stampa, Mario G. Lattanzi, Alberto Vecchiato, Jose M Hernandez, B. Holl, Martin Altmann, Alberto Riva, C.A. Stephenson, H. Steidelmüller, H. I. Siddiqui, U. Abbas, N. Cheek, Sergei A. Klioner, S. Bouquillon, G. Gracia, E. Licata, C. Crowley, Ugo Becciani, A. Abreu, Stefan Jordan, Daniel Michalik, J. Torra, J. H. J. de Bruijne, T. Carlucci, J. Castañeda, Thomas Hilger, Rossella Cancelliere, J. M. Martín-Fleitas, A. Mora, W. Löffler, Eva Sciacca, Roberto Morbidelli, C. Fabricius, A. Hutton, Stefano Bertone, Patrick Charlot, R. Messineo, R. Buzzi, Alexandre Humberto Andrei, M. Ramos-Lerate, C. Barache, R. Drimmel, L. Balaguer-Núñez, Lennart Lindegren, S. Liao, J.J. González-Vidal, F. van Leeuwen, Michael Davidson, M. Sarasso, Francois Mignard, T. Brüsemeister, Richard L. Smart, Nicholas Rowell, Paul J. McMillan, D. Busonero, F. Taris, E. Anglada, Agnes Fienga, U. Lammers, Jordi Portell, Ulrich Bastian, E. Poggio, P. Esquej, Beatrice Bucciarelli, R. Geyer, M. Clotet, Nigel Hambly, Tim Lister, Jon Marchant, Alessandro Spagna, A. van Elteren, Raphael Guerra, F. de Felice, Mariateresa Crosta, M. Hauser, W. van Reeven, H. Lenhardt, Mario Gai, N. Garralda, E. Salguero, E. Fraile, Maison des Agriculteurs, Association pour le Développement de l'Apiculture Provençale (ADAPI), Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Langage, lettres et arts du spectacle, information et communication - Dpt Lettres et arts du spectacle (UGA UFR LLASIC LAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Zentrum für astronomie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), Department of nuclear medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen (UIB)-University of Bergen (UIB), Department of Plant Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University [Port Elizabeth, South Africa], Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología [Lugo, Spain], Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli [Lugo, Spain] (LREC), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [A Coruña, Spain] (USC )-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [A Coruña, Spain] (USC ), AUTRES, Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174) (FEMTO-ST), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CEA Le Ripault (CEA Le Ripault), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), M2A 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Besançon, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Laboratorio de Inmunologıa y Virologıa, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Heckscher-Klinikum, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Département immunologie-oncologie, Sanofi-Synthélabo, Laboratoire de Cosmologie, Astrophysique Stellaire & Solaire, de Planétologie et de Mécanique des Fluides (CASSIOPEE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Hepatology, Birkbeck College [University of London]-Foundation for Liver Research, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Astrophysics Research Institute [Liverpool] (ARI), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Astrometry, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Association pour le Developpement de l'Apiculture Provencale (ADAPI), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB), Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Nelson Mandela University [Port Elizabeth], Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC )-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada [Madrid] (FMC), Facultad de Ciencas [Madrid], Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat de Barcelona, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Proper motion, Astrometria, Epoch (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Paral·laxi, 01 natural sciences, proper motions, 0103 physical sciences, data analysis [methods], reference systems, space vehicles: instruments, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Parallax, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrometry, astrometry, parallaxes, methods: data analysis, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy), Satellite, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Reference frame
Abstract: Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 22 months of its operational phase. We describe the input data, models, and processing used for the astrometric content of Gaia DR2, and the validation of these results performed within the astrometry task. Some 320 billion centroid positions from the pre-processed astrometric CCD observations were used to estimate the five astrometric parameters (positions, parallaxes, and proper motions) for 1332 million sources, and approximate positions at the reference epoch J2015.5 for an additional 361 million mostly faint sources. Special validation solutions were used to characterise the random and systematic errors in parallax and proper motion. For the sources with five-parameter astrometric solutions, the median uncertainty in parallax and position at the reference epoch J2015.5 is about 0.04 mas for bright (G, 25 pages, 29 figures. Special A&A issue on Gaia Data Release 2
Published: 2018

31. SPICA —A Large Cryogenic Infrared Space Telescope: Unveiling the Obscured Universe

Author: M. Kawada, B. Larsson, D. Arrazola, Brian Jackson, C.M. Bradford, Lee Armus, K. Shinozaki, Hiroshi Shibai, Francisca Kemper, N. Isobe, I. Funaki, R. Huisman, M. Giard, L. Duband, Shiang-Yu Wang, P. Khosropanah, Shinki Oyabu, P. P. Kooijman, R. Shipman, Daisuke Ishihara, I. Charles, L. Rodriguez, V. Reveret, S. Withington, Frank Helmich, Kotaro Kohno, Willem Jellema, Pieter Dieleman, M. Audard, T. Wada, B. Vandenbussche, D. van Loon, A. Di Giorgio, Peter Roelfsema, David A. Naylor, I. Sakon, H. Ogawa, G. de Lange, Franz Kerschbaum, J. Kwon, R. Hijmering, W. M. Laauwen, J. van der Kuur, Jaap Evers, Francisco Najarro, Inga Kamp, Takashi Onaka, Albrecht Poglitsch, T. Yamada, L. M. González Fernández, H. Jacobs, S. C. Madden, Hidehiro Kaneda, Yasuo Doi, Jian-Rong Gao, C. K. Wafelbakker, H. van Weers, M. Eggens, I. Yamamura, L. Spinoglio, H. Matsuhara, Oliver Krause, T. Suzuki, Takao Nakagawa, Matthew Joseph Griffin, F. F. S. van der Tak, H. Sugita, Michael D. Audley, Y. Sato, J. Torres Redondo, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, University of Geneva [Switzerland], Institut Nanosciences et Cryogénie (INAC), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), inconnu, Inconnu, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), School of Physics and Astronomy [Cardiff], Cardiff University, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute [Groningen], University of Groningen [Groningen], AUTRES, National Institute for Subatomic Physics [Amsterdam] (NIKHEF), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Departamento de Astrofisica [Madrid], Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Physics, Nara Women's University, Department of Environmental and Materials Engineering, Nagoya Institute, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Antarctic Research a European Network for Astrophysics (ARENA), Nanomaterials Research Institute, foreign laboratories (FL), CERN [Genève], SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Instituut voor Sterrenkunde [Leuven], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Astronomy, Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (LAOG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef [Amsterdam] (NIKHEF), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
Subjects: infrared: galaxies, infrared: general, infrared: planetary systems, instrumentation: photometers, instrumentation: spectrographs, space vehicles: instruments, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, instruments [space vehicles], Direct assessment, Infrared, media_common.quotation_subject, Infrared wavelength, FOS: Physical sciences, Spica, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, galaxies [infrared], infrared: galaxies, Spitzer Space Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, photometers [instrumentation], space vehicles: instruments, 010306 general physics, infrared: planetary systems, planetary systems [infrared], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, general [infrared], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, instrumentation: spectrographs, MISSION, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, Science & Technology, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Universe, instrumentation: photometers, SPITZER, Space and Planetary Science, Physical Sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, infrared: general, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, spectrographs [instrumentation]
Abstract: 著者人数: 70名(所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 芝井, 広; 船木, 一幸; 磯部, 直樹; 川田, 光伸; 權, 靜美; 松原, 英雄; 中川, 貴雄; 小川, 博之; 佐藤, 洋一; 篠崎, 慶亮; 杉田, 寛之; 和田, 武彦; 山田, 亨; 山村, 一誠), Number of authors: 70(Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Shibai, Hiroshi; Funaki, Ikkoh; Isobe, Naoki; Kawada, Mitsunobu; Kwon, Jungmi; Matsuhara, Hideo; Nakagawa, Takao; Ogawa, Hiroyuki; Sato, Yoichi; Shinozaki, Keisuke; Sugita, Hiroyuki; Wada, Takehiko; Yamada, Toru; Yamamura, Issei), 資料番号: SA1180106000
Published: 2018

32. Planets, candidates, and binaries from the CoRoT/Exoplanet programme

Author: Eike W. Guenther, Alexandre Santerne, Ruth Titz-Weider, Tsevi Mazeh, J. Weingrill, Szilard Csizmadia, P. Guterman, A. P. Hatzes, Sascha Grziwa, A. S. Bonomo, Pascal Bordé, Brandon Tingley, Guillaume Hébrard, Aviv Ofir, Heike Rauer, Suzanne Aigrain, Hannu Parviainen, Juan Cabrera, J. M. Almenara, Magali Deleuil, François Bouchy, Anders Erikson, Roi Alonso, Rodrigo F. Díaz, Malcolm Fridlund, Daniel Rouan, Davide Gandolfi, Marc Ollivier, C. Moutou, Jean Schneider, Hans J. Deeg, Tristan Guillot, A. Léger, Martin Pätzold, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford, Universidad de La Laguna [Tenerife - SP] (ULL), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), ECLIPSE 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), DLR Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS), School of Physics and Astronomy [Tel Aviv] (TAU), Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences [Tel Aviv] (TAU), Tel Aviv University (TAU)-Tel Aviv University (TAU), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research (RIU), University of Cologne, Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences (IWF), Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Physics and Astronomy [Tel Aviv], Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv], PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford [Oxford], Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Brown dwarf, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, PARAMETERS, photometric [techniques], techniques: photometric, eclipsing [binaries], Planet, 0103 physical sciences, data analysis [methods], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Transit (astronomy), space vehicles: instruments, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, LIGHT CURVES, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), SPACE MISSION, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, binaries: eclipsing, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Orbital period, Light curve, EXOPLANETS, methods: data analysis, Exoplanet, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Binaries: Eclipsing, Methods: Data analysis, Space vehicles: Instruments, Techniques: Photometric, stars: planetary systems - stars binaries: eclipsing - techniques: photometric - space vehicles: instrument - methods: data analysis , Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, SYSTEM, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We provide the catalogue of all transit-like features, including false alarms, detected by the CoRoT exoplanet teams in the 177 454 light curves of the mission. All these detections have been re-analysed with the same softwares so that to ensure their homogeneous analysis. Although the vetting process involves some human evaluation, it also involves a simple binary flag system over basic tests: detection significance, presence of a secondary, difference between odd and even depths, colour dependence, V-shape transit, and duration of the transit. We also gathered the information from the large accompanying ground-based programme carried out on the planet candidates and checked how useful the flag system could have been at the vetting stage of the candidates. In total, we identified and separated 824 false alarms of various kind, 2269 eclipsing binaries among which 616 are contact binaries and 1653 are detached ones, 37 planets and brown dwarfs, and 557 planet candidates. For the planet candidates, the catalogue gives not only their transit parameters but also the products of their light curve modelling, together with a summary of the outcome of follow-up observations when carried out and their current status. Among the planet candidates whose nature remains unresolved, we estimate that 8 +/- 3 planets are still to be identified. We derived planet and brown dwarf occurrences and confirm disagreements with Kepler estimates: small-size planets with orbital period less than ten days are underabundant by a factor of three in the CoRoT fields whereas giant planets are overabundant by a factor of two. These preliminary results would however deserve further investigations using the recently released CoRoT light curves that are corrected of the various instrumental effects and a homogeneous analysis of the stellar populations observed by the two missions., Comment: Full tables will be provided online at CDS
Published: 2018
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33. Gaia Data Release 2 : Observations of solar system objects

Author: Collaboration, G., Spoto, F., Tanga, P., Mignard, F., Berthier, J., Carry, B., Cellino, A., Dell'Oro, A., Hestroffer, D., Muinonen, K., Pauwels, T., Petit, J., David, P., De Angeli, F., Delbo, M., Frézouls, B., Galluccio, L., Granvik, M., Guiraud, J., Hernández, J., Ordénovic, C., Portell, J., Poujoulet, E., Thuillot, W., Walmsley, G., Brown, A., Vallenari, A., Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C., Biermann, M., Evans, D., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Panem, C., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H., Soubiran, C., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N., Arenou, F., Bastian, U., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M., Bakker, J., Cacciari, C., Castañeda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., Holl, B., Masana, E., Messineo, R., Mowlavi, N., Nienartowicz, K., Panuzzo, P., Riello, M., Seabroke, G., Thévenin, F., Gracia-Abril, G., Comoretto, G., Garcia-Reinaldos, M., Teyssier, D., Altmann, M., Andrae, R., Audard, M., Bellas-Velidis, I., Benson, K., Blomme, R., Burgess, P., Busso, G., Clementini, G., Clotet, M., Creevey, O., Davidson, M., De Ridder, J., Delchambre, L., Ducourant, C., Fernández-Hernández, J., Fouesneau, M., Frémat, Y., García-Torres, M., González-Núñez, J., González-Vidal, J., Gosset, E., Guy, L., Halbwachs, J., Hambly, N., Harrison, D., Hodgkin, S., Hutton, A., Jasniewicz, G., Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A., Jordan, S., Korn, A., Krone-Martins, A., Lanzafame, A., Lebzelter, T., Lö, W., Manteiga, M., Marrese, P., Martín-Fleitas, J., Moitinho, A., Mora, A., Osinde, J., Pancino, E., Recio-Blanco, A., Richards, P., Rimoldini, L., Robin, A., Sarro, L., Siopis, C., Smith, M., Sozzetti, A., Süveges, M., Torra, J., van Reeven, W., Abbas, U., Abreu Aramburu, A., Accart, S., Aerts, C., Altavilla, G., Álvarez, M., Alvarez, R., Alves, J., Anderson, R., Andrei, A., Anglada Varela, E., Antiche, E., Antoja, T., Arcay, B., Astraatmadja, T., Bach, N., Baker, S., Balaguer-Núñez, L., Balm, P., Barache, C., Barata, C., Barbato, D., Barblan, F., Barklem, P., Barrado, D., Barros, M., Barstow, M., Bartholomé Muñoz, L., Bassilana, J., Becciani, U., Bellazzini, M., Berihuete, A., Bertone, S., Bianchi, L., Bienaymé, O., Blanco-Cuaresma, S., Boch, T., Boeche, C., Bombrun, A., Borrachero, R., Bossini, D., Bouquillon, S., Bourda, G., Bragaglia, A., Bramante, L., Breddels, M., Bressan, A., Brouillet, N., Brüsemeister, T., Brugaletta, E., Bucciarelli, B., Burlacu, A., Busonero, D., Butkevich, A., Buzzi, R., Caffau, E., Cancelliere, R., Cannizzaro, G., Cantat-Gaudin, T., Carballo, R., Carlucci, T., Carrasco, J., Casamiquela, L., Castellani, M., Castro-Ginard, A., Charlot, P., Chemin, L., Chiavassa, A., Cocozza, G., Costigan, G., Cowell, S., Crifo, F., Crosta, M., Crowley, C., Cuypers, J., Dafonte, C., Damerdji, Y., Dapergolas, A., David, M., de Laverny, P., De Luise, F., De March, R., de Souza, R., de Torres, A., Debosscher, J., del Pozo, E., Delgado, A., Delgado, H., Diakite, S., Diener, C., Distefano, E., Dolding, C., Drazinos, P., Durán, J., Edvardsson, B., Enke, H., Eriksson, K., Esquej, P., Eynard Bontemps, G., Fabre, C., Fabrizio, M., Faigler, S., Falcão, A., Farràs Casas, M., Federici, L., Fedorets, G., Fernique, P., Figueras, F., Filippi, F., Findeisen, K., Fonti, A., Fraile, E., Fraser, M., Gai, M., Galleti, S., Garabato, D., García-Sedano, F., Garofalo, A., Garralda, N., Gavel, A., Gavras, P., Gerssen, J., Geyer, R., Giacobbe, P., Gilmore, G., Girona, S., Giuffrida, G., Glass, F., Gomes, M., Gueguen, A., Guerrier, A., Gutié, R., Haigron, R., Hatzidimitriou, D., Hauser, M., Haywood, M., Heiter, U., Helmi, A., Heu, J., Hilger, T., Hobbs, D., Hofmann, W., Holland, G., Huckle, H., Hypki, A., Icardi, V., Janßen, K., Jevardat de Fombelle, G., Jonker, P., Juhász, Á., Julbe, F., Karampelas, A., Kewley, A., Klar, J., Kochoska, A., Kohley, R., Kolenberg, K., Kontizas, M., Kontizas, E., Koposov, S., Kordopatis, G., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Koubsky, P., Lambert, S., Lanza, A., Lasne, Y., Lavigne, J., Le Fustec, Y., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Lebreton, Y., Leccia, S., Leclerc, N., Lecoeur-Taibi, I., Lenhardt, H., Leroux, F., Liao, S., Licata, E., Lindstrøm, H., Lister, T., Livanou, E., Lobel, A., López, M., Managau, S., Mann, R., Mantelet, G., Marchal, O., Marchant, J., Marconi, M., Marinoni, S., Marschalkó, G., Marshall, D., Martino, M., Marton, G., Mary, N., Massari, D., Matijevič, G., Mazeh, T., McMillan, P., Messina, S., Michalik, D., Millar, N., Molina, D., Molinaro, R., Molnár, L., Montegriffo, P., Mor, R., Morbidelli, R., Morel, T., Morris, D., Mulone, A., Muraveva, T., Musella, I., Nelemans, G., Nicastro, L., Noval, L., O'Mullane, W., Ordóñez-Blanco, D., Osborne, P., Pagani, C., Pagano, I., Pailler, F., Palacin, H., Palaversa, L., Panahi, A., Pawlak, M., Piersimoni, A., Pineau, F., Plachy, E., Plum, G., Poggio, E., Prša, A., Pulone, L., Racero, E., Ragaini, S., Rambaux, N., Ramos-Lerate, M., Regibo, S., Reylé, C., Riclet, F., Ripepi, V., Riva, A., Rivard, A., Rixon, G., Roegiers, T., Roelens, M., Romero-Gómez, M., Rowell, N., Royer, F., Ruiz-Dern, L., Sadowski, G., Sagristà Sellés, T., Sahlmann, J., Salgado, J., Salguero, E., Sanna, N., Santana-Ros, T., Sarasso, M., Savietto, H., Schultheis, M., Sciacca, E., Segol, M., Segovia, J., Ségransan, D., Shih, I., Siltala, L., Silva, A., Smart, R., Smith, K., Solano, E., Solitro, F., Sordo, R., Soria Nieto, S., Souchay, J., Spagna, A., Stampa, U., Steele, I., Steidelmüller, H., Stephenson, C., Stoev, H., Suess, F., Surdej, J., Szabados, L., Szegedi-Elek, E., Tapiador, D., Taris, F., Tauran, G., Taylor, M., Teixeira, R., Terrett, D., Teyssandier, P., Titarenko, A., Torra Clotet, F., Turon, C., Ulla, A., Utrilla, E., Uzzi, S., Vaillant, M., Valentini, G., Valette, V., van Elteren, A., Van Hemelryck, E., van Leeuwen, M., Vaschetto, M., Vecchiato, A., Veljanoski, J., Viala, Y., Vicente, D., Vogt, S., von Essen, C., Voss, H., Votruba, V., Voutsinas, S., Weiler, M., Wertz, O., Wevers, T., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Yoldas, A., Žerjal, M., Ziaeepour, H., Zorec, J., Zschocke, S., Zucker, S., Zurbach, C., Zwitter, T., Universidad de Cantabria, Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Royal Observatory of Belgium [Brussels] (ROB), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Geneva Observatory, Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Institut de Ciènces del Cosmos (ICC), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Zentrum für astronomie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Departament de Geodinamica i Geofısica, Facultat de Geologia, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre 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CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Astronomy, ITA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, BEL, Pomies, Marie-Paule, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Gaia Collaboration
Subjects: Solar System, Brightness, instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Computer science, Astronomy, ASTEROIDS, [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 01 natural sciences, law.invention, astrometry, minor planets, asteroids: general, methods: data analysis, space vehicles, instruments, astrophysics, earth and planetary astrophysics, astrophysics - instrumentation and methods for astrophysics, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, law, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, INVERSION, Space vehicles: instruments, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Physics, 520 Astronomy, Astrometry, SCIENCE, Asteroids, Data processing, Asteroid, ASTROMETRIA, Physical Sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Système solaire, general [minor planets, asteroids], Asteroides, space vehicles: instruments, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Photometry (optics), [SDU.ASTR.IM] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Apparent magnitude, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Methods: data analysis, 0103 physical sciences, data analysis [methods], PHOTOMETRY, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysique, Minor planet, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Science & Technology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Photometer, Astronomie, 115 Astronomy, Space science, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], general [asteroids], Space and Planetary Science, Minor planets, asteroids: general, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Processament de dades
Abstract: Context. The Gaia spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been securing observations of solar system objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations. Data Release 2 (DR2) contains the observations of a selected sample of 14,099 SSOs. These asteroids have been already identified and have been numbered by the Minor Planet Center repository. Positions are provided for each Gaia observation at CCD level. As additional information, complementary to astrometry, the apparent brightness of SSOs in the unfiltered G band is also provided for selected observations. Aims. We explain the processing of SSO data, and describe the criteria we used to select the sample published in Gaia DR2. We then explore the data set to assess its quality. Methods. To exploit the main data product for the solar system in Gaia DR2, which is the epoch astrometry of asteroids, it is necessary to take into account the unusual properties of the uncertainty, as the position information is nearly one-dimensional. When this aspect is handled appropriately, an orbit fit can be obtained with post-fit residuals that are overall consistent with the a-priori error model that was used to define individual values of the astrometric uncertainty. The role of both random and systematic errors is described. The distribution of residuals allowed us to identify possible contaminants in the data set (such as stars). Photometry in the G band was compared to computed values from reference asteroid shapes and to the flux registered at the corresponding epochs by the red and blue photometers (RP and BP). Results. The overall astrometric performance is close to the expectations, with an optimal range of brightness G ∼ 12 - 17. In this range, the typical transit-level accuracy is well below 1 mas. For fainter asteroids, the growing photon noise deteriorates the performance. Asteroids brighter than G ∼ 12 are affected by a lower performance of the processing of their signals. The dramatic improvement brought by Gaia DR2 astrometry of SSOs is demonstrated by comparisons to the archive data and by preliminary tests on the detection of subtle non-gravitational effects., 0, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2018

34. Instrumental and environmental effects on RPC-ICA measurements of the cometary ion dynamics at comet 67P/CG

Author: Berčič, Laura
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Physics::Space Physics, Naturvetenskap, observational [methods], general [Comets], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, individual: 67P [Comets], plasmas, Natural Sciences
Abstract: Observations provided from RPC-ICA in combination with the data from RPC-MAG and ROSINA-COPS show that many aspects of the time variability of the detected ions is correlated with the magnetic field or -- to a smaller extent -- with neutral atmosphere density. We also show that not all changes in the cometary ion data reflect the nature of the plasma dynamics, but are a consequence of the instrumental limitations. The main outcome of the article in Appendix 1 is that the cometary ions can be divided into two populations with distinct characteristics. One population we termed the convecting population, is accelerated to higher energies through the interaction with the solar wind. The other population we termed the expanding population is moving radially away from the nucleus in the terminator plane. Both populations exhibit a significant anti-sunward component.In addition we present in this thesis a case with observations day-side of the terminator plane. There we show how the expanding population has a sunward component, consistent with initial radial expansion of the ions from the nucleus which gradually turn into an anti-sunward flow which is then observed in the terminator plane.
Published: 2017

35. Soft X-ray Focusing Telescope Aboard AstroSat: Design, Characteristics and Performance

Author: Harshit Shah, Abhay Kumar Singh, Gulab C. Dewangan, K. S. Sarma, S. Kotak, N. Thakkar, G. C. Stewart, Tony Crawford, K. H. Navalgund, A. Bajpai, Nilima S. Kamble, A. F. Abbey, Sunil Chandra, Irfan Mirza, T. Stevenson, Mathew Sebastian, J. P. Koyande, S. Narendra, D. P. Pathare, S. Bhattacharayya, A. K. Rajarajan, V. M. Risbud, G. Nagesh, G. Hansford, Niels Jørgen Stenfeldt Westergaard, G. Peters, A. T. Kothare, R. Rai, K. Subbarao, M. V. L. Ramesh, Christopher Bicknell, V. R. Chitnis, P. Agarwal, R. Pandiyan, Tulika Gupta, Vinita Navalkar, A. P. Beardmore, K. Mukerjee, J. Sykes, K. P. Singh, and S. Vishwakarama
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, instruments [Space vehicles], law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, COSMIC cancer database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ranging, Galaxy, Supernova, Stars, detectors. [instrumentation], Space and Planetary Science, Charge-coupled device
Abstract: The Soft X-ray focusing Telescope (SXT), India’s first X-ray telescope based on the principle of grazing incidence, was launched aboard the AstroSat and made operational on October 26, 2015. X-rays in the energy band of 0.3–8.0 keV are focussed on to a cooled charge coupled device thus providing medium resolution X-ray spectroscopy of cosmic X-ray sources of various types. It is the most sensitive X-ray instrument aboard the AstroSat. In its first year of operation, SXT has been used to observe objects ranging from active stars, compact binaries, supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei and clusters of galaxies in order to study its performance and quantify its characteriztics. Here, we present an overview of its design, mechanical hardware, electronics, data modes, observational constraints, pipeline processing and its in-orbit performance based on preliminary results from its characterization during the performance verification phase.
Published: 2017

36. Planck intermediate results: XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth

Author: Aghanim, N, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battye, R, Benabed, K, Bernard, JP, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, JF, Carron, J, Challinor, A, Chiang, HC, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Comis, B, Coulais, A, Crill, BP, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Davis, RJ, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, JM, Di Valentino, E, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Fantaye, Y, Finelli, F, Forastieri, F, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Hansen, FK, Helou, G, Henrot-Versillé, S, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Ilić, S, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kisner, TS, Knox, L, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, JM, Langer, M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Le Jeune, M, Leahy, JP, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, and López-Caniego, M
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], detectors [instrumentation], first stars, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO, reionization, cosmic background radiation, dark ages, Astronomy & Astrophysics, observations [cosmology], Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: This paper describes 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. These maps, at 100, 143, 217, and 353 GHz, are early versions of those that will be released in final form later in 2016. The improvements allow us to determine the cosmic reionization optical depth τ using, for the first time, the low-multipole EE data from HFI, reducing significantly the central value and uncertainty, and hence the upper limit. Two different likelihood procedures are used to constrain τ from two estimators of the CMB E-and B-mode angular power spectra at 100 and 143 GHz, after debiasing the spectra from a small remaining systematic contamination. These all give fully consistent results. A further consistency test is performed using cross-correlations derived from the Low Frequency Instrument maps of the Planck 2015 data release and the new HFI data. For this purpose, end-to-end analyses of systematic effects from the two instruments are used to demonstrate the near independence of their dominant systematic error residuals. The tightest result comes from the HFI-based τ posterior distribution using the maximum likelihood power spectrum estimator from EE data only, giving a value 0.055 ± 0.009. In a companion paper these results are discussed in the context of the best-fit PlanckΛCDM cosmological model and recent models of reionization.
Published: 2016

37. The Gaia mission

Author: Prusti, T. De Bruijne, J.H.J. Brown, A.G.A. Vallenari, A. Babusiaux, C. Bailer-Jones, C.A.L. Bastian, U. Biermann, M. Evans, D.W. Eyer, L. Jansen, F. Jordi, C. Klioner, S.A. Lammers, U. Lindegren, L. Luri, X. Mignard, F. Milligan, D.J. Panem, C. Poinsignon, V. Pourbaix, D. Randich, S. Sarri, G. Sartoretti, P. Siddiqui, H.I. Soubiran, C. Valette, V. Van Leeuwen, F. Walton, N.A. Aerts, C. Arenou, F. Cropper, M. Drimmel, R. Høg, E. Katz, D. Lattanzi, M.G. O'Mullane, W. Grebel, E.K. Holland, A.D. Huc, C. Passot, X. Bramante, L. Cacciari, C. Castañeda, J. Chaoul, L. Cheek, N. De Angeli, F. Fabricius, C. Guerra, R. Hernández, J. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, A. Masana, E. Messineo, R. Mowlavi, N. Nienartowicz, K. Ordóñez-Blanco, D. Panuzzo, P. Portell, J. Richards, P.J. Riello, M. Seabroke, G.M. Tanga, P. Thévenin, F. Torra, J. Els, S.G. Gracia-Abril, G. Comoretto, G. Garcia-Reinaldos, M. Lock, T. Mercier, E. Altmann, M. Andrae, R. Astraatmadja, T.L. Bellas-Velidis, I. Benson, K. Berthier, J. Blomme, R. Busso, G. Carry, B. Cellino, A. Clementini, G. Cowell, S. Creevey, O. Cuypers, J. Davidson, M. De Ridder, J. De Torres, A. Delchambre, L. Dell'Oro, A. Ducourant, C. Frémat, Y. García-Torres, M. Gosset, E. Halbwachs, J.-L. Hambly, N.C. Harrison, D.L. Hauser, M. Hestroffer, D. Hodgkin, S.T. Huckle, H.E. Hutton, A. Jasniewicz, G. Jordan, S. Kontizas, M. Korn, A.J. Lanzafame, A.C. Manteiga, M. Moitinho, A. Muinonen, K. Osinde, J. Pancino, E. Pauwels, T. Petit, J.-M. Recio-Blanco, A. Robin, A.C. Sarro, L.M. Siopis, C. Smith, M. Smith, K.W. Sozzetti, A. Thuillot, W. Van Reeven, W. Viala, Y. Abbas, U. Abreu Aramburu, A. Accart, S. Aguado, J.J. Allan, P.M. Allasia, W. Altavilla, G. Álvarez, M.A. Alves, J. Anderson, R.I. Andrei, A.H. Anglada Varela, E. Antiche, E. Antoja, T. Antón, S. Arcay, B. Atzei, A. Ayache, L. Bach, N. Baker, S.G. Balaguer-Núñez, L. Barache, C. Barata, C. Barbier, A. Barblan, F. Baroni, M. Barrado Y Navascués, D. Barros, M. Barstow, M.A. Becciani, U. Bellazzini, M. Bellei, G. Bello García, A. Belokurov, V. Bendjoya, P. Berihuete, A. Bianchi, L. Bienaymé, O. Billebaud, F. Blagorodnova, N. Blanco-Cuaresma, S. Boch, T. Bombrun, A. Borrachero, R. Bouquillon, S. Bourda, G. Bouy, H. Bragaglia, A. Breddels, M.A. Brouillet, N. Brüsemeister, T. Bucciarelli, B. Budnik, F. Burgess, P. Burgon, R. Burlacu, A. Busonero, D. Buzzi, R. Caffau, E. Cambras, J. Campbell, H. Cancelliere, R. Cantat-Gaudin, T. Carlucci, T. Carrasco, J.M. Castellani, M. Charlot, P. Charnas, J. Charvet, P. Chassat, F. Chiavassa, A. Clotet, M. Cocozza, G. Collins, R.S. Collins, P. Costigan, G. Crifo, F. Cross, N.J.G. Crosta, M. Crowley, C. Dafonte, C. Damerdji, Y. Dapergolas, A. David, P. David, M. De Cat, P. De Felice, F. De Laverny, P. De Luise, F. De March, R. De Martino, D. De Souza, R. Debosscher, J. Del Pozo, E. Delbo, M. Delgado, A. Delgado, H.E. Di Marco, F. Di Matteo, P. Diakite, S. Distefano, E. Dolding, C. Dos Anjos, S. Drazinos, P. Durán, J. Dzigan, Y. Ecale, E. Edvardsson, B. Enke, H. Erdmann, M. Escolar, D. Espina, M. Evans, N.W. Eynard Bontemps, G. Fabre, C. Fabrizio, M. Faigler, S. Falcão, A.J. Farràs Casas, M. Faye, F. Federici, L. Fedorets, G. Fernández-Hernández, J. Fernique, P. Fienga, A. Figueras, F. Filippi, F. Findeisen, K. Fonti, A. Fouesneau, M. Fraile, E. Fraser, M. Fuchs, J. Furnell, R. Gai, M. Galleti, S. Galluccio, L. Garabato, D. García-Sedano, F. Garé, P. Garofalo, A. Garralda, N. Gavras, P. Gerssen, J. Geyer, R. Gilmore, G. Girona, S. Giuffrida, G. Gomes, M. González-Marcos, A. González-Núñez, J. González-Vidal, J.J. Granvik, M. Guerrier, A. Guillout, P. Guiraud, J. Gúrpide, A. Gutiérrez-Sánchez, R. Guy, L.P. Haigron, R. Hatzidimitriou, D. Haywood, M. Heiter, U. Helmi, A. Hobbs, D. Hofmann, W. Holl, B. Holland, G. Hunt, J.A.S. Hypki, A. Icardi, V. Irwin, M. Jevardat De Fombelle, G. Jofré, P. Jonker, P.G. Jorissen, A. Julbe, F. Karampelas, A. Kochoska, A. Kohley, R. Kolenberg, K. Kontizas, E. Koposov, S.E. Kordopatis, G. Koubsky, P. Kowalczyk, A. Krone-Martins, A. Kudryashova, M. Kull, I. Bachchan, R.K. Lacoste-Seris, F. Lanza, A.F. Lavigne, J.-B. Le Poncin-Lafitte, C. Lebreton, Y. Lebzelter, T. Leccia, S. Leclerc, N. Lecoeur-Taibi, I. Lemaitre, V. Lenhardt, H. Leroux, F. Liao, S. Licata, E. Lindstrøm, H.E.P. Lister, T.A. Livanou, E. Lobel, A. Löffler, W. López, M. Lopez-Lozano, A. Lorenz, D. Loureiro, T. MacDonald, I. Magalhães Fernandes, T. Managau, S. Mann, R.G. Mantelet, G. Marchal, O. Marchant, J.M. Marconi, M. Marie, J. Marinoni, S. Marrese, P.M. Marschalkó, G. Marshall, D.J. Martín-Fleitas, J.M. Martino, M. Mary, N. Matijevič, G. Mazeh, T. McMillan, P.J. Messina, S. Mestre, A. Michalik, D. Millar, N.R. Miranda, B.M.H. Molina, D. Molinaro, R. Molinaro, M. Molnár, L. Moniez, M. Montegriffo, P. Monteiro, D. Mor, R. Mora, A. Morbidelli, R. Morel, T. Morgenthaler, S. Morley, T. Morris, D. Mulone, A.F. Muraveva, T. Musella, I. Narbonne, J. Nelemans, G. Nicastro, L. Noval, L. Ordénovic, C. Ordieres-Meré, J. Osborne, P. Pagani, C. Pagano, I. Pailler, F. Palacin, H. Palaversa, L. Parsons, P. Paulsen, T. Pecoraro, M. Pedrosa, R. Pentikäinen, H. Pereira, J. Pichon, B. Piersimoni, A.M. Pineau, F.-X. Plachy, E. Plum, G. Poujoulet, E. Prša, A. Pulone, L. Ragaini, S. Rago, S. Rambaux, N. Ramos-Lerate, M. Ranalli, P. Rauw, G. Read, A. Regibo, S. Renk, F. Reylé, C. Ribeiro, R.A. Rimoldini, L. Ripepi, V. Riva, A. Rixon, G. Roelens, M. Romero-Gómez, M. Rowell, N. Royer, F. Rudolph, A. Ruiz-Dern, L. Sadowski, G. Sagristà Sellés, T. Sahlmann, J. Salgado, J. Salguero, E. Sarasso, M. Savietto, H. Schnorhk, A. Schultheis, M. Sciacca, E. Segol, M. Segovia, J.C. Segransan, D. Serpell, E. Shih, I.-C. Smareglia, R. Smart, R.L. Smith, C. Solano, E. Solitro, F. Sordo, R. Soria Nieto, S. Souchay, J. Spagna, A. Spoto, F. Stampa, U. Steele, I.A. Steidelmüller, H. Stephenson, C.A. Stoev, H. Suess, F.F. Süveges, M. Surdej, J. Szabados, L. Szegedi-Elek, E. Tapiador, D. Taris, F. Tauran, G. Taylor, M.B. Teixeira, R. Terrett, D. Tingley, B. Trager, S.C. Turon, C. Ulla, A. Utrilla, E. Valentini, G. Van Elteren, A. Van Hemelryck, E. Van Leeuwen, M. Varadi, M. Vecchiato, A. Veljanoski, J. Via, T. Vicente, D. Vogt, S. Voss, H. Votruba, V. Voutsinas, S. Walmsley, G. Weiler, M. Weingrill, K. Werner, D. Wevers, T. Whitehead, G. Wyrzykowski, Ł. Yoldas, A. Žerjal, M. Zucker, S. Zurbach, C. Zwitter, T. Alecu, A. Allen, M. Allende Prieto, C. Amorim, A. Anglada-Escudé, G. Arsenijevic, V. Azaz, S. Balm, P. Beck, M. Bernstein, H.-H. Bigot, L. Bijaoui, A. Blasco, C. Bonfigli, M. Bono, G. Boudreault, S. Bressan, A. Brown, S. Brunet, P.-M. Bunclark, P. Buonanno, R. Butkevich, A.G. Carret, C. Carrion, C. Chemin, L. Chéreau, F. Corcione, L. Darmigny, E. De Boer, K.S. De Teodoro, P. De Zeeuw, P.T. Delle Luche, C. Domingues, C.D. Dubath, P. Fodor, F. Frézouls, B. Fries, A. Fustes, D. Fyfe, D. Gallardo, E. Gallegos, J. Gardiol, D. Gebran, M. Gomboc, A. Gómez, A. Grux, E. Gueguen, A. Heyrovsky, A. Hoar, J. Iannicola, G. Isasi Parache, Y. Janotto, A.-M. Joliet, E. Jonckheere, A. Keil, R. Kim, D.-W. Klagyivik, P. Klar, J. Knude, J. Kochukhov, O. Kolka, I. Kos, J. Kutka, A. Lainey, V. Lebouquin, D. Liu, C. Loreggia, D. Makarov, V.V. Marseille, M.G. Martayan, C. Martinez-Rubi, O. Massart, B. Meynadier, F. Mignot, S. Munari, U. Nguyen, A.-T. Nordlander, T. Ocvirk, P. O'Flaherty, K.S. Olias Sanz, A. Ortiz, P. Osorio, J. Oszkiewicz, D. Ouzounis, A. Palmer, M. Park, P. Pasquato, E. Peltzer, C. Peralta, J. Péturaud, F. Pieniluoma, T. Pigozzi, E. Poels, J. Prat, G. Prod'homme, T. Raison, F. Rebordao, J.M. Risquez, D. Rocca-Volmerange, B. Rosen, S. Ruiz-Fuertes, M.I. Russo, F. Sembay, S. Serraller Vizcaino, I. Short, A. Siebert, A. Silva, H. Sinachopoulos, D. Slezak, E. Soffel, M. Sosnowska, D. Straižys, V. Ter Linden, M. Terrell, D. Theil, S. Tiede, C. Troisi, L. Tsalmantza, P. Tur, D. Vaccari, M. Vachier, F. Valles, P. Van Hamme, W. Veltz, L. Virtanen, J. Wallut, J.-M. Wichmann, R. Wilkinson, M.I. Ziaeepour, H. Zschocke, S.
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], proper motions, parallaxes, astrometry, telescopes, structure [Galaxy]
Abstract: Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the spacecraft and the payload were built by European industry. The involvement of the scientific community focusses on data processing for which the international Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) was selected in 2007. Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and arrived at its operating point, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, a few weeks later. The commissioning of the spacecraft and payload was completed on 19 July 2014. The nominal five-year mission started with four weeks of special, ecliptic-pole scanning and subsequently transferred into full-sky scanning mode. We recall the scientific goals of Gaia and give a description of the as-built spacecraft that is currently (mid-2016) being operated to achieve these goals. We pay special attention to the payload module, the performance of which is closely related to the scientific performance of the mission. We provide a summary of the commissioning activities and findings, followed by a description of the routine operational mode. We summarise scientific performance estimates on the basis of in-orbit operations. Several intermediate Gaia data releases are planned and the data can be retrieved from the Gaia Archive, which is available through the Gaia home page.http://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia
Published: 2016

38. The Gaia mission

Author: Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J. H. J., Brown, A. G. A., Vallenari, A., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bastian, U., Biermann, M., Evans, D. W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S. A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Mignard, F., Milligan, D. J., Panem, C., Poinsignon, V., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sarri, G., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H. I., Soubiran, C., Valette, V., van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N. A., Aerts, C., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Hog, E., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M. G., O'Mullane, W., Grebel, E. K., Holland, A. D., Huc, C., Passot, X., Bramante, L., Cacciari, C., Castaneda, J., Chaoul, L., Cheek, N., De Angeli, F., Fabricius, C., Guerra, R., and Tingley, B.
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], STANDARD STARS, telescopes, CA-II TRIPLET, CCD RADIATION-DAMAGE, ASTROMETRIC SOLUTION, COVARIANCE EXPANSION MODEL, SOLAR-SYSTEM, GRAVITATIONAL-FIELD, proper motions, GENERAL-RELATIVISTIC MODEL, parallaxes, astrometry, structure [Galaxy], FGK BENCHMARK STARS, ERROR CHARACTERIZATION
Abstract: Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the spacecraft and the payload were built by European industry. The involvement of the scientific community focusses on data processing for which the international Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) was selected in 2007. Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and arrived at its operating point, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, a few weeks later. The commissioning of the spacecraft and payload was completed on 19 July 2014. The nominal five-year mission started with four weeks of special, ecliptic-pole scanning and subsequently transferred into full-sky scanning mode. We recall the scientific goals of Gaia and give a description of the as-built spacecraft that is currently (mid-2016) being operated to achieve these goals. We pay special attention to the payload module, the performance of which is closely related to the scientific performance of the mission. We provide a summary of the commissioning activities and findings, followed by a description of the routine operational mode. We summarise scientific performance estimates on the basis of in-orbit operations. Several intermediate Gaia data releases are planned and the data can be retrieved from the Gaia Archive, which is available through the Gaia home page.
Published: 2016

39. Planck 2015 results: III. LFI systematic uncertainties

Author: Ade, PAR, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battaglia, P, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, JP, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Catalano, A, Christensen, PR, Colombo, LPL, Cruz, M, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Finelli, F, Frailis, M, Franceschet, C, Franceschi, E, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Ghosh, T, Giard, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Gjerløw, E, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Hansen, FK, Harrison, DL, Hernández-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, SR, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Hornstrup, A, Hovest, W, Huffenberger, KM, Hurier, G, Jaffe, AH, Jaffe, TR, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kisner, TS, Knoche, J, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, JM, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Leahy, JP, Leonardi, R, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Linden-Vørnle, M, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maffei, B, Maggio, G, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Mangilli, A, Maris, M, and Martin, PG
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, data analysis [methods], astro-ph.CO, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Astronomy & Astrophysics, observations [cosmology], Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We present the current accounting of systematic effect uncertainties for the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) that are relevant to the 2015 release of the Planck cosmological results, showing the robustness and consistency of our data set, especially for polarization analysis. We use two complementary approaches: (i) simulations based on measured data and physical models of the known systematic effects; and (ii) analysis of difference maps containing the same sky signal ("null-maps"). The LFI temperature data are limited by instrumental noise. At large angular scales the systematic effects are below the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature power spectrum by several orders of magnitude. In polarization the systematic uncertainties are dominated by calibration uncertainties and compete with the CMB E-modes in the multipole range 10-20. Based on our model of all known systematic effects, we show that these effects introduce a slight bias of around 0.2σ on the reionization optical depth derived from the 70GHz EE spectrum using the 30 and 353GHz channels as foreground templates. At 30GHz the systematic effects are smaller than the Galactic foreground at all scales in temperature and polarization, which allows us to consider this channel as a reliable template of synchrotron emission. We assess the residual uncertainties due to LFI effects on CMB maps and power spectra after component separation and show that these effects are smaller than the CMB amplitude at all scales. We also assess the impact on non-Gaussianity studies and find it to be negligible. Some residuals still appear in null maps from particular sky survey pairs, particularly at 30 GHz, suggesting possible straylight contamination due to an imperfect knowledge of the beam far sidelobes.
Published: 2016

40. Planck 2015 results: II. Low Frequency Instrument data processings

Author: Ade, PAR, Aghanim, N, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battaglia, P, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoît, A, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, JP, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, JF, Castex, G, Catalano, A, Chamballu, A, Christensen, PR, Colombi, S, Colombo, LPL, Crill, BP, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Fergusson, J, Finelli, F, Forni, O, Frailis, M, Franceschet, C, Franceschi, E, Frejsel, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Giard, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Gjerløw, E, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Hansen, FK, Hanson, D, Harrison, DL, Henrot-Versillé, S, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, SR, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Holmes, WA, Hornstrup, A, Hovest, W, Huffenberger, KM, Hurier, G, Jaffe, AH, Jaffe, TR, Juvela, M, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kisner, TS, Knoche, J, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, and Lagache, G
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], data analysis [methods], astro-ph.CO, Bioengineering, cosmic background radiation, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: We present an updated description of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing pipeline, associated with the 2015 data release. We point out the places where our results and methods have remained unchanged since the 2013 paper and we highlight the changes made for the 2015 release, describing the products (especially timelines) and the ways in which they were obtained. We demonstrate that the pipeline is self-consistent (principally based on simulations) and report all null tests. For the first time, we present LFI maps in Stokes Q and U polarization. We refer to other related papers where more detailed descriptions of the LFI data processing pipeline may be found if needed.
Published: 2016

41. Planck 2015 results

Author: Adam, R., Ade, P. A R, Aghanim, N., Akrami, Y., Alves, M. I R, Arguëso, F., Arnaud, M., Arroja, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Bartlett, J. G., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Battaglia, P., Battaner, E., Battye, R., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernard, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Bertincourt, B., Bielewicz, P., Bikmaev, I., Bock, J. J., Böhringer, H., Bonaldi, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Burenin, R., Burigana, C., Butler, R. C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J. F., Carvalho, P., Casaponsa, B., Castex, G., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chamballu, A., Chary, R. R., Chiang, H. C., Chluba, J., Chon, G., Christensen, P. R., Church, S., Clemens, M., Clements, D. L., Colombi, S., Colombo, L. P L, Combet, C., Comis, B., Contreras, D., Couchot, F., Coulais, A., Crill, B. P., Cruz, M., Curto, A., Cuttaia, F., Danese, L., Davies, R. D., Davis, R. J., De Bernardis, P., De Rosa, A., De Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Delouis, J.-M., Désert, F. X., Di Valentino, E., Dickinson, C., Diego, J. M., Dolag, K., Dole, H., Donzelli, S., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Ducout, A., Dunkley, J., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Eisenhardt, P. R M, Elsner, F., Enßlin, T. A., Eriksen, H. K., Falgarone, E., Fantaye, Y., Farhang, M., Feeney, S., Fergusson, J., Fernandez-Cobos, R., Feroz, F., Finelli, F., Florido, E., Forni, O., Frailis, M., Fraisse, A. A., Franceschet, C., Franceschi, E., Frejsel, A., Frolov, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Gauthier, C., Génova-Santos, R. T., Gerbino, M., Ghosh, T., Giard, M., Giraud-Héraud, Y., Giusarma, E., Gjerløw, E., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K. M., Grainge, K. J B, Gratton, S., Gregorio, A., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Hamann, J., Handley, W., Hansen, F. K., Hanson, D., Harrison, D. L., Heavens, A., Helou, G., Henrot-Versillé, S., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S. R., Hivon, E., Hobson, M., Holmes, W. A., Hornstrup, A., Hovest, W., Huang, Z., Huffenberger, K. M., Hurier, G., Ilić, S., Jaffe, A. H., Jaffe, T. R., Jin, T., Jones, W. C., Juvela, M., Karakci, A., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Khamitov, I., Kiiveri, K., Kim, Jaiseung, Kisner, T. S., Kneissl, R., Knoche, J., Knox, L., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lacasa, F., Lagache, G., Lähteenmäki, A., Lamarre, J. M., Langer, M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C. R., Le Jeune, M., Leahy, J. P., Lellouch, E., Leonardi, R., León-Tavares, J., Lesgourgues, J., Levrier, F., Lewis, A., Liguori, M., Lilje, P. B., Lilley, M., Linden-Vørnle, M., Lindholm, V., Liu, H., López-Caniego, M., Lubin, P. M., Ma, Y.-Z., Maciás-Pérez, J. F., Maggio, G., Maino, D., Mak, D. S Y, Mandolesi, N., Mangilli, A., Marchini, A., Marcos-Caballero, A., Marinucci, D., Maris, M., Marshall, D. J., Martin, P. G., Martinelli, M., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Mazzotta, P., Mcewen, J. D., Mcgehee, P., Mei, S., Meinhold, P. R., Melchiorri, A., Melin, J. B., Mendes, L., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Mikkelsen, K., Millea, M., Mitra, S., Miville-Deschênes, M. A., Molinari, D., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Moreno, R., Morgante, G., Mortlock, D., Moss, A., Mottet, S., Münchmeyer, M., Munshi, D., Murphy, J. A., Narimani, A., Naselsky, P., Nastasi, A., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Negrello, M., Netterfield, C. B., Nørgaard-Nielsen, H. U., Noviello, F., Novikov, D., Novikov, I., Olamaie, M., Oppermann, N., Orlando, E., Oxborrow, C. A., Paci, F., Pagano, L., Pajot, F., Paladini, R., Pandolfi, S., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Pasian, F., Patanchon, G., Pearson, T. J., Peel, M., Peiris, H. V., Pelkonen, V. M., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Perrott, Y. C., Perrotta, F., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pierpaoli, E., Pietrobon, D., Plaszczynski, S., Pogosyan, D., Pointecouteau, E., Polenta, G., Popa, L., Pratt, G. W., Prézeau, G., Prunet, S., Puget, J. L., Rachen, J. P., Racine, B., Reach, W. T., Rebolo, R., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renault, C., Renzi, A., Ristorcelli, I., Rocha, G., Roman, M., Romelli, E., Rosset, C., Rossetti, M., Rotti, A., Roudier, G., Rouillé D'orfeuil, B., Rowan-Robinson, M., Rubinõ-Martín, J. A., Ruiz-Granados, B., Rumsey, C., Rusholme, B., Said, N., Salvatelli, V., Salvati, L., Sandri, M., Sanghera, H. S., Santos, D., Saunders, R. D E, Sauvé, A., Savelainen, M., Savini, G., Schaefer, B. M., Schammel, M. P., Scott, D., Seiffert, M. D., Serra, P., Shellard, E. P S, Shimwell, T. W., Shiraishi, M., Smith, K., Souradeep, T., Spencer, L. D., Spinelli, M., Stanford, S. A., Stern, D., Stolyarov, V., Stompor, R., Strong, A. W., Sudiwala, R., Sunyaev, R., Sutter, P., Sutton, D., Suur-Uski, A. S., Sygnet, J. F., Tauber, J. A., Tavagnacco, D., Terenzi, L., Texier, D., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tornikoski, M., Tramonte, D., Tristram, M., Troja, A., Trombetti, T., Tucci, M., Tuovinen, J., Türler, M., Umana, G., Valenziano, L., Väliviita, J., Van Tent, F., Vassallo, T., Vibert, L., Vidal, M., Viel, M., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Wade, L. A., Walter, B., Wandelt, B. D., Watson, R., Wehus, I. K., Welikala, N., Weller, J., White, M., White, S. D M, Wilkinson, A., Yvon, D., Zacchei, A., Zibin, J. P., Zonca, A., Cardiff University, Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, International School for Advanced Studies, IRAP, Universidad de Cantabria, Sapienza University of Rome, Università Degli Studi di Trieste, Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional, UMR7095, INAF/IASF Milano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Manchester, University of Toronto, University of California Berkeley, Institut d 'Astrophysique de Paris, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna, University of Oxford, Telecom ParisTech, Service d'Astrophysique CEA, Niels Bohr Institute, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Università La Sapienza, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Urbanización Villafranca Del Castillo, University of Cambridge, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, University of Oslo, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, University of Chicago, University of Warsaw, McGill University, Université Paris-Sud, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Florida State University, Imperial College London, University of Helsinki, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Milano, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique et Atmospheres, University of Ferrara, Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos, CERN, University of California Santa Barbara, California Institute of Technology, University of Nottingham, National University of Ireland, Galway, Princeton University, RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Haverford College, Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, University of Southern California, Osservatorio Astronomico Roma, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, University of British Columbia, Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Università degli Studi eCampus, University of Geneva, Trinity College Dublin, INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Université Paris Diderot, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Stanford University, Stockholm University, University of Sussex, Institute for Space Sciences, Universities Space Research Association, University College London, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS/IN2P3, Universite de Toulouse, Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy, University of Granada, CNRS, Università degli Studi di Milano, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, University of California at Berkeley, Universite Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV, INAF/IASF Bologna, Università di Ferrara, INFN, Sezione di Bologna, UMR 5141, Laboratoire AIM, Service d’Astrophysique, DSM\IRFU, CEA\Saclay, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Johns Hopkins University, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, UMR 7095, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institut Universitaire de France, European Space Agcy, European Space Agency, ESAC, Planck Sci Off, Shahid Beheshti University, National Taiwan University, Stockholms universitet, NORDITA, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Sydney, Centro de Estudios de la Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Technical University of Denmark, European Southern Observatory Santiago, ALMA Santiago Central Offices, University of California, Université de Genève, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Aix Marseille Universite, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, INFN, Sezione di Ferrara, RWTH Aachen University, INFN, Sezione di Padova, University of California, Santa Barbara, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Universite Paris-Sud, INFN, Sezione di Roma 1, University of Heidelberg, Gran Sasso Science Institute, CEA Saclay, CEA, DSM Irfu SPP, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, National University of Ireland, University of Copenhagen, ASI Science Data Center, RAS - Pn Lebedev Physics Institute, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Université Pierre and Marie Curie, Radboud University Nijmegen, Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias, CSIC, Universidad de La Laguna, Department of Applied Physics, ROTA – Topological superfluids, Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan Federal University, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre, Università degli Studi e-Campus, Universidad de Oviedo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Université Paris-Saclay, University of Oviedo, IRFM-CEA, CEA Saclay, University of Bologna, Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory, University of Padova, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, European Space Astronomy Centre, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Simon Fraser University, TÛBITAK National Observatory, University of California Davis, Heidelberg University, Observatoire de Paris, University of Alberta, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India, Leiden University, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, University Observatory Munich, Facultad de Ciencias, Université Paris 13, School of Physics and Astronomy, Osservatorio Astronomicodi Roma, Universite Joseph Fourier, Université Grenoble Alpes, and European Space Agency - ESA
Subjects: statistical [Methods], Diffuse radiation, Large-scale structure of Universe, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Local insterstellar matter, Cosmological parameters, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, clusters: general [Galaxies], Cosmic background radiation, Early Universe, instruments [Space vehicles], theory [Cosmology], Polarization, Dark energy, observations [Cosmology], data analysis [Methods], general [Galaxy], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, detectors [Instrumentation], general [Radiation mechanisms], polarimeters [Instrumentation], general [ISM], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Inflation, ISM [Radio continuum], Space and Planetary Science, 115 Astronomy and space science, Magnetic fields, Gravitation
Abstract: This paper presents cosmological results based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Our results are in very good agreement with the 2013 analysis of the Planck nominal-mission temperature data, but with increased precision. The temperature and polarization power spectra are consistent with the standard spatially-flat 6-parameter ΛCDM cosmology with a power-law spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations (denoted "base ΛCDM" in this paper). From the Planck temperature data combined with Planck lensing, for this cosmology we find a Hubble constant, H0 = (67.8 ± 0.9) km s-1Mpc-1, a matter density parameter Ωm = 0.308 ± 0.012, and a tilted scalar spectral index with ns = 0.968 ± 0.006, consistent with the 2013 analysis. Note that in this abstract we quote 68% confidence limits on measured parameters and 95% upper limits on other parameters. We present the first results of polarization measurements with the Low FrequencyInstrument at large angular scales. Combined with the Planck temperature and lensing data, these measurements give a reionization optical depth of τ = 0.066 ± 0.016, corresponding to a reionization redshift of \hbox{$z-{\rm re}=8.8{+1.7}-{-1.4}$}. These results are consistent with those from WMAP polarization measurements cleaned for dust emission using 353-GHz polarization maps from the High Frequency Instrument. We find no evidence for any departure from base ΛCDM in the neutrino sector of the theory; for example, combining Planck observations with other astrophysical data we find Neff = 3.15 ± 0.23 for the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom, consistent with the value Neff = 3.046 of the Standard Model of particle physics. The sum of neutrino masses is constrained to â'mν < 0.23 eV. The spatial curvature of our Universe is found to be very close to zero, with | ΩK | < 0.005. Adding a tensor component as a single-parameter extension to base ΛCDM we find an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio of r0.002< 0.11, consistent with the Planck 2013 results and consistent with the B-mode polarization constraints from a joint analysis of BICEP2, Keck Array, and Planck (BKP) data. Adding the BKP B-mode data to our analysis leads to a tighter constraint of r0.002 < 0.09 and disfavours inflationarymodels with a V(φ) φ2 potential. The addition of Planck polarization data leads to strong constraints on deviations from a purely adiabatic spectrum of fluctuations. We find no evidence for any contribution from isocurvature perturbations or from cosmic defects. Combining Planck data with other astrophysical data, including Type Ia supernovae, the equation of state of dark energy is constrained to w =-1.006 ± 0.045, consistent with the expected value for a cosmological constant. The standard big bang nucleosynthesis predictions for the helium and deuterium abundances for the best-fit Planck base ΛCDM cosmology are in excellent agreement with observations. We also constraints on annihilating dark matter and onpossible deviations from the standard recombination history. In neither case do we find no evidence for new physics. The Planck results for base ΛCDM are in good agreement with baryon acoustic oscillation data and with the JLA sample of Type Ia supernovae. However, as in the 2013 analysis, the amplitude of the fluctuation spectrum is found to be higher than inferred from some analyses of rich cluster counts and weak gravitational lensing. We show that these tensions cannot easily be resolved with simple modifications of the base ΛCDM cosmology. Apart from these tensions, the base ΛCDM cosmology provides an excellent description of the Planck CMB observations and many other astrophysical data sets.
Published: 2016

42. Planck 2015 results

Author: Adam, R, Ade, PAR, Aghanim, N, Arnaud, M, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoît, A, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bertincourt, B, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Catalano, A, Challinor, A, Chamballu, A, Chiang, HC, Christensen, PR, Clements, DL, Colombi, S, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Couchot, F, Coulais, A, Crill, BP, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, de Bernardis, P, de Rosa, A, de Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J-M, Désert, F-X, Diego, JM, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Fergusson, J, Finelli, F, Forni, O, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Frejsel, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Ghosh, T, Giard, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Gjerløw, E, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Hansen, FK, Hanson, D, Harrison, DL, Henrot-Versillé, S, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, SR, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Holmes, WA, Hornstrup, A, Hovest, W, Huffenberger, KM, Hurier, G, Jaffe, AH, Jaffe, TR, Jones, WC, Juvela, M, and Keihänen, E
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.GA, statistical [methods], Bioengineering, ISM [radio continuum], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, magnetic fields, Astronomy & Astrophysics, galaxies [infrared], polarimeters [instrumentation], surveys, weak [gravitational lensing], data analysis [methods], clusters: general [galaxies], cosmological parameters, inflation, dark energy, general [radiation mechanisms], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, general [Galaxy], polarization, formation [stars], detectors [instrumentation], theory [cosmology], general [ISM], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, telescopes, numerical [methods], early Universe, general [submillimeter], observations [cosmology], diffuse radiation, gravitation, astro-ph.CO, general [radio continuum], Physics::Accelerator Physics, large-scale structure of Universe, structure [ISM], clouds [ISM], local insterstellar matter, catalogs, Astronomical and Space Sciences, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: This paper presents cosmological results based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Our results are in very good agreement with the 2013 analysis of the Planck nominal-mission temperature data, but with increased precision. The temperature and polarization power spectra are consistent with the standard spatially-flat 6-parameter ΛCDM cosmology with a power-law spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations (denoted "base ΛCDM" in this paper). From the Planck temperature data combined with Planck lensing, for this cosmology we find a Hubble constant, H0 = (67.8 ± 0.9) km s-1Mpc-1, a matter density parameter Ωm = 0.308 ± 0.012, and a tilted scalar spectral index with ns = 0.968 ± 0.006, consistent with the 2013 analysis. Note that in this abstract we quote 68% confidence limits on measured parameters and 95% upper limits on other parameters. We present the first results of polarization measurements with the Low Frequency Instrument at large angular scales. Combined with the Planck temperature and lensing data, these measurements give a reionization optical depth of τ = 0.066 ± 0.016, corresponding to a reionization redshift of \hbox{$z-{\rm re}=8.8{+1.7}-{-1.4}$}. These results are consistent with those from WMAP polarization measurements cleaned for dust emission using 353-GHz polarization maps from the High Frequency Instrument. We find no evidence for any departure from base ΛCDM in the neutrino sector of the theory; for example, combining Planck observations with other astrophysical data we find Neff = 3.15 ± 0.23 for the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom, consistent with the value Neff = 3.046 of the Standard Model of particle physics. The sum of neutrino masses is constrained to â'mν < 0.23 eV. The spatial curvature of our Universe is found to be very close to zero, with | ΩK | < 0.005. Adding a tensor component as a single-parameter extension to base ΛCDM we find an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio of r0.002< 0.11, consistent with the Planck 2013 results and consistent with the B-mode polarization constraints from a joint analysis of BICEP2, Keck Array, and Planck (BKP) data. Adding the BKP B-mode data to our analysis leads to a tighter constraint of r0.002 < 0.09 and disfavours inflationarymodels with a V(φ) φ2 potential. The addition of Planck polarization data leads to strong constraints on deviations from a purely adiabatic spectrum of fluctuations. We find no evidence for any contribution from isocurvature perturbations or from cosmic defects. Combining Planck data with other astrophysical data, including Type Ia supernovae, the equation of state of dark energy is constrained to w =-1.006 ± 0.045, consistent with the expected value for a cosmological constant. The standard big bang nucleosynthesis predictions for the helium and deuterium abundances for the best-fit Planck base ΛCDM cosmology are in excellent agreement with observations. We also constraints on annihilating dark matter and on possible deviations from the standard recombination history. In neither case do we find no evidence for new physics. The Planck results for base ΛCDM are in good agreement with baryon acoustic oscillation data and with the JLA sample of Type Ia supernovae. However, as in the 2013 analysis, the amplitude of the fluctuation spectrum is found to be higher than inferred from some analyses of rich cluster counts and weak gravitational lensing. We show that these tensions cannot easily be resolved with simple modifications of the base ΛCDM cosmology. Apart from these tensions, the base ΛCDM cosmology provides an excellent description of the Planck CMB observations and many other astrophysical data sets.
Published: 2016

43. Planck 2015 results: I. Overview of products and scientific results

Author: Adam R., Ade P., Aghanim N., Akrami Y., Alves M., Arguëso F., Arnaud M., Arroja F., Ashdown M., Aumont J., Baccigalupi C., Ballardini M., Banday A., Barreiro R., Bartlett J., Bartolo N., Basak S., Battaglia P., Battaner E., Battye R., Benabed K., Benoît A., Benoit-Lévy A., Bernard J., Bersanelli M., Bertincourt B., Bielewicz P., Bikmaev I., Bock J., Böhringer H., Bonaldi A., Bonavera L., Bond J., Borrill J., Bouchet F., Boulanger F., Bucher M., Burenin R., Burigana C., Butler R., Calabrese E., Cardoso J., Carvalho P., Casaponsa B., Castex G., Catalano A., Challinor A., Chamballu A., Chary R., Chiang H., Chluba J., Chon G., Christensen P., Church S., Clemens M., Clements D., Colombi S., Colombo L., Combet C., Comis B., and Contreras D.
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], detectors [instrumentation], surveys, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, observations [cosmology]
Abstract: © 2016 ESO. The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which is 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. In February 2015, ESA and the Planck Collaboration released the second set of cosmology products based ondata from the entire Planck mission, including both temperature and polarization, along with a set of scientific and technical papers and a web-based explanatory supplement. This paper gives an overview of the main characteristics of the data and the data products in the release, as well as the associated cosmological and astrophysical science results and papers. The data products include maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, diffuse foregrounds in temperature and polarization, catalogues of compact Galactic and extragalactic sources (including separate catalogues of Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters and Galactic cold clumps), and extensive simulations of signals and noise used in assessing uncertainties and the performance of the analysis methods. The likelihood code used to assess cosmological models against the Planck data is described, along with a CMB lensing likelihood. Scientific results include cosmological parameters derived from CMB power spectra, gravitational lensing, and cluster counts, as well as constraints on inflation, non-Gaussianity, primordial magnetic fields, dark energy, and modified gravity, and new results on low-frequency Galactic foregrounds.
Published: 2016

44. Planck 2015 results: II. Low Frequency Instrument data processings

Author: Ade P., Aghanim N., Ashdown M., Aumont J., Baccigalupi C., Ballardini M., Banday A., Barreiro R., Bartolo N., Basak S., Battaglia P., Battaner E., Benabed K., Benoît A., Benoit-Lévy A., Bernard J., Bersanelli M., Bielewicz P., Bock J., Bonaldi A., Bonavera L., Bond J., Borrill J., Bouchet F., Bucher M., Burigana C., Butler R., Calabrese E., Cardoso J., Castex G., Catalano A., Chamballu A., Christensen P., Colombi S., Colombo L., Crill B., Curto A., Cuttaia F., Danese L., Davies R., Davis R., De Bernardis P., De Rosa A., De Zotti G., Delabrouille J., Dickinson C., Diego J., Dole H., Donzelli S., Doré O., Douspis M., Ducout A., Dupac X., Efstathiou G., Elsner F., Enßlin T., Eriksen H., Fergusson J., Finelli F., Forni O., Frailis M., and Franceschet C.
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], data analysis [methods], cosmic background radiation
Abstract: © ESO, 2016. We present an updated description of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) data processing pipeline, associated with the 2015 data release. We point out the places where our results and methods have remained unchanged since the 2013 paper and we highlight the changes made for the 2015 release, describing the products (especially timelines) and the ways in which they were obtained. We demonstrate that the pipeline is self-consistent (principally based on simulations) and report all null tests. For the first time, we present LFI maps in Stokes Q and U polarization. We refer to other related papers where more detailed descriptions of the LFI data processing pipeline may be found if needed.
Published: 2016

45. Gaia Data Release 1: Astrometry - one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes

Author: J. Castañeda, Agnes Fienga, F. Raison, W. van Reeven, Mario G. Lattanzi, Lennart Lindegren, M. Sarasso, Michael Soffel, H. Steidelmüller, Stefan Jordan, J. H. J. de Bruijne, Tim Lister, C. Fabricius, Paul J. McMillan, W. Löffler, T. Carlucci, A. Hutton, Francois Mignard, Raphael Guerra, Alexandre Humberto Andrei, E. Joliet, Ugo Becciani, G. Comoretto, Mario Gai, A. Mora, Berry Holl, William O'Mullane, I. Serraller, U. Abbas, Sonia Anton, Daniel Michalik, M. Hauser, N. Bach, Jon Marchant, P. Parsons, N. Garralda, J.J. González-Vidal, Alessandro Spagna, C. Barache, Luciana Bianchi, H. I. Siddiqui, David Hobbs, J. Torra, T. Brüsemeister, U. Stampa, R. Geyer, Alberto Vecchiato, F. Taris, F. de Felice, M. Clotet, Nigel Hambly, Patrick Charlot, S. Bouquillon, Alberto Riva, Roberto Morbidelli, U. Lammers, Maria Teresa Crosta, G. Gracia, Jordi Portell, Ulrich Bastian, Beatrice Bucciarelli, F. Figueras, Richard L. Smart, Alex Bombrun, S. Liao, R. Drimmel, Iain A. Steele, M. Ramos-Lerate, Michael Davidson, Jérôme Berthier, Sergei A. Klioner, A. G. Butkevich, M. Biermann, D. Busonero, Jose M Hernandez, R. Messineo, Martin Altmann, A. de Torres, Sven Zschocke, H. Lenhardt, G. Bourda, J. Osorio, E. Fraile, Universitat de Barcelona, Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), Zentrum für astronomie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Solvay (France), Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Langage, lettres et arts du spectacle, information et communication - Dpt Lettres et arts du spectacle (UGA UFR LLASIC LAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Heckscher-Klinikum, AUTRES, Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ARHEOINVEST, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza [Lasi], Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Sciences, Philosophie, Humanités (SPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen (UIB), Department of nuclear medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen (UIB)-University of Bergen (UIB), Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims - UMR 7312 (ICMR), SFR Condorcet, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), M2A 2016, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Open University of Israël, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University [Port Elizabeth, South Africa], Géoazur (GEOAZUR), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrometry, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratorio de Inmunologıa y Virologıa, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Pesca, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University [New York], Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, Universidad de Granada (UGR), Laboratoire Génome et Informatique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Human Cancer Genetics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Lohrmann Observatory, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center - Academisch Medisch Centrum [Amsterdam] (AMC), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), British Geological Survey (BGS), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Bergen (UiB), University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB), Nelson Mandela University [Port Elizabeth], Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade Federal de Rondônia [Brésil] (UNIR), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], Astrometria, Epoch (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mecànica celeste, proper motions, 0103 physical sciences, Celestial mechanics, data analysis [methods], reference systems, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Frame (networking), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrometry, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Magnitude (astronomy), parallaxes, International Celestial Reference Frame, Satellite, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Reference frame
Abstract: Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) contains astrometric results for more than 1 billion stars brighter than magnitude 20.7 based on observations collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months of its operational phase. We give a brief overview of the astrometric content of the data release and of the model assumptions, data processing, and validation of the results. For stars in common with the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues, complete astrometric single-star solutions are obtained by incorporating positional information from the earlier catalogues. For other stars only their positions are obtained by neglecting their proper motions and parallaxes. The results are validated by an analysis of the residuals, through special validation runs, and by comparison with external data. Results. For about two million of the brighter stars (down to magnitude ~11.5) we obtain positions, parallaxes, and proper motions to Hipparcos-type precision or better. For these stars, systematic errors depending e.g. on position and colour are at a level of 0.3 milliarcsecond (mas). For the remaining stars we obtain positions at epoch J2015.0 accurate to ~10 mas. Positions and proper motions are given in a reference frame that is aligned with the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) to better than 0.1 mas at epoch J2015.0, and non-rotating with respect to ICRF to within 0.03 mas/yr. The Hipparcos reference frame is found to rotate with respect to the Gaia DR1 frame at a rate of 0.24 mas/yr. Based on less than a quarter of the nominal mission length and on very provisional and incomplete calibrations, the quality and completeness of the astrometric data in Gaia DR1 are far from what is expected for the final mission products. The results nevertheless represent a huge improvement in the available fundamental stellar data and practical definition of the optical reference frame., Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2016

46. Planck intermediate results XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth

Author: Planck Collaboration, Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Battye, R., Benabed, K., Bernard, J. -P, Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bock, J. J., Bonaldi, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Butler, R. C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J. -F, Carron, J., Challinor, A., Chiang, H. C., Colombo, L. P. L., Combet, C., Comis, B., Coulais, A., Crill, B. P., Curto, A., Francesco Cuttaia, Davis, R. J., Bernardis, P., Rosa, A., Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Delouis, J. -M, Di Valentino, E., Dickinson, C., Diego, J. M., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Ducout, A., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Elsner, F., Enßlin, T. A., Eriksen, H. K., Falgarone, E., Fantaye, Y., Finelli, F., Forastieri, F., Frailis, M., Fraisse, A. A., Franceschi, E., Frolov, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Génova-Santos, R. T., Gerbino, M., Ghosh, T., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K. M., Gratton, S., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Hansen, F. K., Helou, G., Henrot-Versillé, S., Herranz, D., Hivon, E., Huang, Z., Ilic, S., Jaffe, A. H., Jones, W. C., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T. S., Knox, L., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lagache, G., Lamarre, J. -M, Langer, M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C. R., Le Jeune, M., Leahy, J. P., Levrier, F., Liguori, M., Lilje, P. B., López-Caniego, M., Ma, Y. -Z, Macías-Pérez, J. F., Maggio, G., Mangilli, A., Maris, M., Martin, P. G., Martínez-González, E., Matarrese, S., Mauri, N., Mcewen, J. D., Meinhold, P. R., Melchiorri, A., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Miville-Deschênes, M. -A, Molinari, D., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Moss, A., Mottet, S., Naselsky, P., Natoli, P., Oxborrow, C. A., Pagano, L., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Patanchon, G., Patrizii, L., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Plaszczynski, S., Polastri, L., Polenta, G., Puget, J. -L, Rachen, J. P., Racine, B., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renzi, A., Rocha, G., Rossetti, M., Roudier, G., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Ruiz-Granados, B., Salvati, L., Sandri, M., Savelainen, M., Scott, D., Sirri, G., Sunyaev, R., Suur-Uski, A. -S, Tauber, J. A., Tenti, M., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tristram, M., Trombetti, T., Valiviita, J., Tent, F., Vibert, L., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vittorio, N., Wandelt, B. D., Watson, R., Wehus, I. K., White, M., Zacchei, A., Zonca, A., Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay [Orsay] (LPT), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A.J., Barreiro, R.B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Battye, R., Benabed, K., Bernard, J.-P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bock, J.J., Bonaldi, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F.R., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Butler, R.C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J.-F., Carron, J., Challinor, A., Chiang, H.C., Colombo, L.P.L., Combet, C., Comis, B., Coulais, A., Crill, B.P., Curto, A., Cuttaia, F., Davis, R.J., De Bernardis, P., De Rosa, A., De Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Delouis, J.-M., Di Valentino, E., Dickinson, C., Diego, J.M., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Ducout, A., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Elsner, F., Enßlin, T.A., Eriksen, H.K., Falgarone, E., Fantaye, Y., Finelli, F., Forastieri, F., Frailis, M., Fraisse, A.A., Franceschi, E., Frolov, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Génova-Santos, R.T., Gerbino, M., Ghosh, T., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K.M., Gratton, S., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J.E., Hansen, F.K., Helou, G., Henrot-Versillé, S., Herranz, D., Hivon, E., Huang, Z., Ilić, S., Jaffe, A.H., Jones, W.C., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T.S., Knox, L., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lagache, G., Lamarre, J.-M., Langer, M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C.R., Le Jeune, M., Leahy, J.P., Levrier, F., Liguori, M., Lilje, P.B., López-Caniego, M., Ma, Y.-Z., MacIás-Pérez, J.F., Maggio, G., Mangilli, A., Maris, M., Martin, P.G., Martínez-González, E., Matarrese, S., Mauri, N., Mcewen, J.D., Meinhold, P.R., Melchiorri, A., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Molinari, D., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Moss, A., Mottet, S., Naselsky, P., Natoli, P., Oxborrow, C.A., Pagano, L., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Patanchon, G., Patrizii, L., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Plaszczynski, S., Polastri, L., Polenta, G., Puget, J.-L, Rachen, J.P., Racine, B., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renzi, A., Rocha, G., Rossetti, M., Roudier, G., Rubinõ-Martín, J.A., Ruiz-Granados, B., Salvati, L., Sandri, M., Savelainen, M., Scott, D., Sirri, G., Sunyaev, R., Suur-Uski, A.-S., Tauber, J.A., Tenti, M., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tristram, M., Trombetti, T., Valiviita, J., Van Tent, F., Vibert, L., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vittorio, N., Wandelt, B.D., Watson, R., Wehus, I.K., White, M., Zacchei, A., Zonca, A., Aghanim, N, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, A, Barreiro, R, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battye, R, Benabed, K, Bernard, J, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, J, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, R, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J, Carron, J, Challinor, A, Chiang, H, Colombo, L, Combet, C, Comis, B, Coulais, A, Crill, B, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Davis, R, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J, Di Valentino, E, Dickinson, C, Diego, J, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, T, Eriksen, H, Falgarone, E, Fantaye, Y, Finelli, F, Forastieri, F, Frailis, M, Fraisse, A, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, R, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, K, Gratton, S, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, J, Hansen, F, Helou, G, Henrot-Versillé, S, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Ilić, S, Jaffe, A, Jones, W, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kisner, T, Knox, L, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, J, Langer, M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, C, Le Jeune, M, Leahy, J, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, P, López-Caniego, M, Ma, Y, MacIás-Pérez, J, Maggio, G, Mangilli, A, Maris, M, Martin, P, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, Mcewen, J, Meinhold, P, Melchiorri, A, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Miville-Deschênes, M, Molinari, D, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Moss, A, Mottet, S, Naselsky, P, Natoli, P, Oxborrow, C, Pagano, L, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Patanchon, G, Patrizii, L, Perdereau, O, Perotto, L, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Plaszczynski, S, Polastri, L, Polenta, G, Puget, J, Rachen, J, Racine, B, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renzi, A, Rocha, G, Rossetti, M, Roudier, G, Rubinõ-Martín, J, Ruiz-Granados, B, Salvati, L, Sandri, M, Savelainen, M, Scott, D, Sirri, G, Sunyaev, R, Suur-Uski, A, Tauber, J, Tenti, M, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Tristram, M, Trombetti, T, Valiviita, J, Van Tent, F, Vibert, L, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wandelt, B, Watson, R, Wehus, I, White, M, Zacchei, A, and Zonca, A
Subjects: Cosmic background radiation, Cosmology: observations, Dark ages, reionization, first stars, Instrumentation: detectors, Space vehicles: instruments, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, cosmology: observations, dark ages, reionization, first stars, space vehicles: instruments, instrumentation: detectors, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, dark ages, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, TEMPERATURE, detectors [Instrumentation], Physics, Instrumentation: detector, COSMIC cancer database, INSTRUMENT, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Settore FIS/05, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Estimator, POWER SPECTRA, Physical Sciences, astro-ph.CO, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, symbols, reionization, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, COSMIC REIONIZATION, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), first stars, Posterior probability, FOS: Physical sciences, Space vehicles: instrument, Astronomy & Astrophysics, NO, instruments [Space vehicles], [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Planck, Reionization, Science & Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, CONSTRAINTS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, observations, dark ages, reionization, first stars, cosmic background radiation, space vehicles: instruments, instrumentation: detectors [cosmology], Computational physics, MODEL, Dark ages, reionization, first star, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], PROBE WMAP OBSERVATIONS, LUMINOSITY, PHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATION, EMISSION
Abstract: Acknowledgements. 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, J.A., 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); 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, This paper describes 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. These maps, at 100, 143, 217, and 353 GHz, are early versions of those that will be released in final form later in 2016. The improvements allow us to determine the cosmic reionization optical depth τ using, for the first time, the low-multipole EE data from HFI, reducing significantly the central value and uncertainty, and hence the upper limit. Two different likelihood procedures are used to constrain τ from two estimators of the CMB E- and B-mode angular power spectra at 100 and 143 GHz, after debiasing the spectra from a small remaining systematic contamination. These all give fully consistent results. A further consistency test is performed using cross-correlations derived from the Low Frequency Instrument maps of the Planck 2015 data release and the new HFI data. For this purpose, end-to-end analyses of systematic effects from the two instruments are used to demonstrate the near independence of their dominant systematic error residuals. The tightest result comes from the HFI-based τ posterior distribution using the maximum likelihood power spectrum estimator from EE data only, giving a value 0.055 ± 0.009. In a companion paper these results are discussed in the context of the best-fit PlanckΛCDM cosmological model and recent models of reionization., European Space Agency, Centre National D'etudes Spatiales, CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France), Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italian National Research Council, Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF), National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), United States Department of Energy (DOE), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UKSA (UK), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), RES (Spain), MINECO (Spain), CSC (Finland), AoF (Finland), Finnish Funding Agency for Technology & Innovation (TEKES), Helmholtz Association, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Max Planck Society, CSA (Canada), DTU Space (Denmark), SER/SSO (Switzerland), RCN (Norway), Science Foundation Ireland, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, ERC (EU), European Union (EU), J.A. (Spain), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/L000768/1 ST/L000393/1 ST/M004856/1
Published: 2016

47. Evolution of the Dust Size Distribution of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from 2.2 au to Perihelion

Author: B. J. R. Davidsson, Nicolas Altobelli, Philippe Lamy, J. E. Rodriguez, Vladimir Zakharov, A. Molina, F. Lucarelli, Ivano Bertini, Ekkehard Kührt, R. Kramm, Bo Å. S. Gustafson, P. Weissman, Jose Luis Ortiz, Michael Küppers, Roberto Sordini, J. L. Bertaux, A. Lopez-Jimenez, Pasquale Palumbo, Alessandra Rotundi, J. J. López-Moreno, P. J. Gutiérrez, Mark Leese, Hans Rickman, J. M. Jeronimo, M. A. Barucci, E. Mazzotta Epifani, Monica Lazzarin, Jean-François Crifo, Stavro Ivanovski, Detlef Koschny, Nicolas Thomas, Vito Mennella, Eberhard Grün, Holger Sierks, Nilda Oklay, Carsten Güttler, M. De Cecco, K. P. Wenzel, Cesare Barbieri, F. Moreno, Stefano Mottola, Simon F. Green, Stubbe F. Hviid, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Wing-Huen Ip, Laurent Jorda, Luisa Lara, V. Da Deppo, John C. Zarnecki, Mario Accolla, E. Bussoletti, Francesca Esposito, Francesco Marzari, M. L. Herranz, Sonia Fornasier, Jean-Marie Perrin, Luigi Colangeli, Jessica Agarwal, F. Giovane, M. Ferrari, Ernesto Palomba, Cecilia Tubiana, Giampiero Naletto, Marco Fulle, J. A. M. McDonnell, Dennis Bodewits, Jörg Knollenberg, V. Della Corte, Rafael Rodrigo, R. Morales, M. F. A'Hearn, Olivier Groussin, Horst Uwe Keller, F. J. M. Rietmeijer, M. Cosi, Stefano Debei, Gabriele Cremonese, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', Universita degli Studi di Padova, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF (IAPS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Universita degli studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' [Napoli], Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania (OACT), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), European Space Agency (ESA), IMPEC - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Selex-ES, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), HEPPI - LATMOS, CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], University of Trento [Trento], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [Blacksburg], University of Florida [Gainesville], School of Physical Sciences [Milton Keynes], The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), DLR Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Space Science [Taiwan], National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Operations Department (ESAC), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), University of Kent [Canterbury], Departamento de Fisica Aplicada [Granada], Universidad de Granada (UGR), Department of Information Engineering [Padova] (DEI), Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), Institut Pythéas (OSU PYTHEAS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Albuquerque] (EPS), The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern], Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' = University of Naples (PARTHENOPE), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), PLANETO - LATMOS, HELIOS - LATMOS, National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [Milton Keynes], The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)-The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 530 Physics, Comet dust, Comet, Flux, comets: individual (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko), general, space vehicles: instruments, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science [comets], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GIADA, 01 natural sciences, general [comets], law.invention, Orbiter, Interplanetary dust cloud, law, Dust collector, Rosetta, 0103 physical sciences, Nadir, comets: general, Space and Planetary Science, OSIRIS, individual (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) [comets], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], 520 Astronomy, Astronomy, Mass ratio, 620 Engineering, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: The Rosetta probe, orbiting Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, has been detecting individual dust particles of mass larger than 10^(−10) kg by means of the GIADA dust collector and the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera and Narrow Angle Camera since 2014 August and will continue until 2016 September. Detections of single dust particles allow us to estimate the anisotropic dust flux from 67P, infer the dust loss rate and size\ud distribution at the surface of the sunlit nucleus, and see whether the dust size distribution of 67P evolves in time.\ud The velocity of the Rosetta orbiter, relative to 67P, is much lower than the dust velocity measured by GIADA, thus\ud dust counts when GIADA is nadir-pointing will directly provide the dust flux. In OSIRIS observations, the dust\ud flux is derived from the measurement of the dust space density close to the spacecraft. Under the assumption of radial expansion of the dust, observations in the nadir direction provide the distance of the particles by measuring\ud their trail length, with a parallax baseline determined by the motion of the spacecraft. The dust size distribution at\ud sizes >1 mm observed by OSIRIS is consistent with a differential power index of −4, which was derived from\ud models of 67P’s trail. At sizes
Published: 2016

48. Decimetre-scaled spectrophotometric properties of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from OSIRIS observations

Author: Clement Feller, Wing-Huen Ip, Laurent Jorda, Marco Fulle, M. Küppers, Pedro Hasselmann, Nilda Oklay, Philippe Lamy, Björn Davidsson, Antoine Pommerol, Holger Sierks, Cecilia Tubiana, Stefano Debei, V. Da Deppo, Antonella Barucci, Stubbe F. Hviid, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Pedro J. Gutiérrez, F. Scholten, Olivier Groussin, A. Giquel, Detlef Koschny, Cesare Barbieri, Nicolas Thomas, Jakob Deller, Sonia Fornasier, E. Kührt, M. De Cecco, Nafiseh Masoumzadeh, C. Leyrat, J. Knollenberg, Irina Belskaya, Monica Lazzarin, D. Perna, Gabriele Cremonese, Olivier Poch, H. U. Keller, M. R. Elmaary, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Rafael Rodrigo, Hans Rickman, Steve Boudreault, Maurizio Pajola, J.-R. Kramm, Xian Shi, Stefano Mottola, Bernhard Jost, Francesco Marzari, Giampiero Naletto, F. Preusker, C. Güttler, J. J. Lopez Moreno, Jessica Agarwal, Géza Kovács, M. L. Lara, Ivano Bertini, Michael F. A'Hearn, M. Hofmann, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (KhNU), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali 'Giuseppe Colombo' (CISAS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Galileo Galilei', Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Uppsala], Uppsala University, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), International Space Science Institute [Bern] (ISSI), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Department of Industrial Engineering [Padova], University of Trento [Trento], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig] (IGEP), Technische Universität Braunschweig = Technical University of Braunschweig [Braunschweig], Institute of Astronomy [Taiwan] (IANCU), National Central University [Taiwan] (NCU), Department of Information Engineering [Padova] (DEI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Universität Bern [Bern], Universita degli Studi di Padova, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), European Space Agency (ESA)-European Space Agency (ESA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA, European Space Agency, Swedish National Space Board, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Subjects: instruments [space vehicles], 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Infrared, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], 01 natural sciences, methods: data analysis – space vehicles – space vehicles: instruments – techniques: image processing – techniques: photometric – comets: individual: 67P/ Churyumov–Gerasimenko, methods: data analysis space vehicles space vehicles: instruments techniques: image processing techniques: photometric comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko, photometric [techniques], Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Geometric albedo, Spectral slope, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Space vehicles: instruments, comets, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Image resolution, Physics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), biology, image processing [techniques], 7P/Churyumov Gerasimenko, 520 Astronomy, Comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-gerasimenko, Methods: data analysis, Space vehicles, Techniques: image processing, Techniques: photometric, medicine.anatomical_structure, individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [comets], photometry, 530 Physics, Comet, Data analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, Photometry (optics), 0103 physical sciences, medicine, data analysis [methods], 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620 Engineering, biology.organism_classification, image processing, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, space vehicles, Osiris, Nucleus, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the results of the photometric and spectrophotometric properties of the 67P/Churyumov¿Gerasimenko nucleus derived with the Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System instrument during the closest fly-by over the comet, which took place on 2015 February 14 at a distance of ~6 km from the surface. Several images covering the 0¿¿ 33¿ phase angle range were acquired, and the spatial resolution achieved was 11 cm pixel¿1. The flown-by region is located on the big lobe of the comet, near the borders of the Ash, Apis and Imhotep regions. Our analysis shows that this region features local heterogeneities at the decimetre scale. We observed difference of reflectance up to 40 per cent between bright spots and sombre regions, and spectral slope variations up to 50 per cent. The spectral reddening effect observed globally on the comet surface by Fornasier et al. (2015) is also observed locally on this region, but with a less steep behaviour. We note that numerous metre-sized boulders, which exhibit a smaller opposition effect, also appear spectrally redder than their surroundings. In this region, we found no evidence linking observed bright spots to exposed water-ice-rich material.We fitted our data set using the Hapke 2008 photometric model. The region overflown is globally as dark as the whole nucleus (geometric albedo of 6.8 per cent) and it has a high porosity value in the uppermost layers (86 per cent). These results of the photometric analysis at a decimetre scale indicate that the photometric properties of the flown-by region are similar to those previously found for the whole nucleus. © 2016 The Authors., The support of the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain (MEC), Sweden (SNSB) and the ESA Technical Directorate is gratefully acknowledged.
Published: 2016
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49. Planck 2015 results: III. LFI systematic uncertainties

Author: Ade, PAR, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battaglia, P, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, JP, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Catalano, A, Christensen, PR, Colombo, LPL, Cruz, M, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, De Bernardis, P, De Rosa, A, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Finelli, F, Frailis, M, Franceschet, C, Franceschi, E, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Ghosh, T, Giard, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Gjerløw, E, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Hansen, FK, Harrison, DL, Hernández-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, SR, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Hornstrup, A, and Hovest, W
Subjects: instruments [Space vehicles], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmic background radiation, observations [Cosmology], data analysis [Methods]
Abstract: © ESO, 2016. We present the current accounting of systematic effect uncertainties for the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) that are relevant to the 2015 release of the Planck cosmological results, showing the robustness and consistency of our data set, especially for polarization analysis. We use two complementary approaches: (i) simulations based on measured data and physical models of the known systematic effects; and (ii) analysis of difference maps containing the same sky signal ("null-maps"). The LFI temperature data are limited by instrumental noise. At large angular scales the systematic effects are below the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature power spectrum by several orders of magnitude. In polarization the systematic uncertainties are dominated by calibration uncertainties and compete with the CMB E-modes in the multipole range 10-20. Based on our model of all known systematic effects, we show that these effects introduce a slight bias of around 0.2σ on the reionization optical depth derived from the 70GHz EE spectrum using the 30 and 353GHz channels as foreground templates. At 30GHz the systematic effects are smaller than the Galactic foreground at all scales in temperature and polarization, which allows us to consider this channel as a reliable template of synchrotron emission. We assess the residual uncertainties due to LFI effects on CMB maps and power spectra after component separation and show that these effects are smaller than the CMB amplitude at all scales. We also assess the impact on non-Gaussianity studies and find it to be negligible. Some residuals still appear in null maps from particular sky survey pairs, particularly at 30 GHz, suggesting possible straylight contamination due to an imperfect knowledge of the beam far sidelobes.
Published: 2016

50. The Gaia mission

Author: Prusti, T., De Bruijne, J.H.J., Brown, A.G.A., Vallenari, A., Babusiaux, C., Bailer-Jones, C.A.L., Bastian, U., Biermann, M., Evans, D.W., Eyer, L., Jansen, F., Jordi, C., Klioner, S.A., Lammers, U., Lindegren, L., Luri, X., Mignard, F., Milligan, D.J., Panem, C., Poinsignon, V., Pourbaix, D., Randich, S., Sarri, G., Sartoretti, P., Siddiqui, H.I., Soubiran, C., Valette, V., Van Leeuwen, F., Walton, N.A., Aerts, C., Arenou, F., Cropper, M., Drimmel, R., Høg, E., Katz, D., Lattanzi, M.G., O'Mullane, W., Grebel, E.K., Holland, A.D., González-Marcos, Ana., and A. Bello García
Subjects: instruments [Space vehicles], Parallaxes, Astrometry, Proper motions, structure [Galaxy], Telescopes
Abstract: Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the spacecraft and the payload were built by European industry. The involvement of the scientific community focusses on data processing for which the international Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) was selected in 2007. Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and arrived at its operating point, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, a few weeks later. The commissioning of the spacecraft and payload was completed on 19 July 2014. The nominal five-year mission started with four weeks of special, ecliptic-pole scanning and subsequently transferred into full-sky scanning mode. We recall the scientific goals of Gaia and give a description of the as-built spacecraft that is currently (mid-2016) being operated to achieve these goals. We pay special attention to the payload module, the performance of which is closely related to the scientific performance of the mission. We provide a summary of the commissioning activities and findings, followed by a description of the routine operational mode. We summarise scientific performance estimates on the basis of in-orbit operations. Several intermediate Gaia data releases are planned and the data can be retrieved from the Gaia Archive, which is available through the Gaia home page. © ESO, 2016.
Published: 2016

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