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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR
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Speaker: Xavier Dupac (INAF-OATS)

Title: Planck: the scanning strategy

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Abstract: The observations of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background have achieved tremendous advances in the last decade. The European Space Agency Planck satellite mission, to be launched in 2007, represents the next generation experiment. Its aim is not only to map the whole sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity, but also to achieve accurate measurements of both temperature and polarization CMB anisotropy angular power spectra. In this talk, I will briefly present the Planck mission and its characteristics, and I will focus on the description of the scanning strategy in which the Planck telescope will observe the microwave sky. I will explain what the constraints on the possible observation strategies are, and the respective advantages and drawbacks of these. Finally, I will describe the current baseline strategy which has been chosen for Planck.
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