Planck All-Sky Temperature and Foreground Component Maps

Map of matter in the Universe.

Thursday, March 21st, 2013 • Announcement • ipac2013-001

 ESA, NASA, the Planck Collaboration, and IRSA announce the first release of all sky temperature maps, foreground component maps and cosmology results from the Planck mission. Also included in this release are updated catalogs of sources that are foregrounds to the CMB, mission and instrument parameters, software and external data sets which are useful for analysis of Planck data. Enhanced visualization capabilities for map sections are also available. The Planck Data Release 1 (DR1) products are based on data collected during the nominal mission which spans the period between August 13 2009 and November 26 2010.

The NASA Planck Archive is hosted at IRSA within IPAC.

Planck is a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA involvement. The primary goal of the Planck mission is to measure the intensity and polarization of the sky over a range of frequencies from 30 to 857 GHz (wavelengths of 1 cm to 350 microns) in order to characterize the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Planck was launched on May 14, 2009 aboard the same rocket that carried the Herschel Space Observatory into space.