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Dr Clements

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Reader in Astrophysics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7693d.clements

 
 
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1011Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Clements:2017:10.1080/00107514.2017.1362139,
author = {Clements, DL},
doi = {10.1080/00107514.2017.1362139},
journal = {Contemporary Physics},
pages = {331--348},
title = {An introduction to the Planck mission},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2017.1362139},
volume = {58},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the oldest light in the universe. It is seen today as black body radiation at a near-uniform temperature of 2.73 K covering the entire sky. This radiation field is not perfectly uniform, but includes within it temperature anisotropies of order ΔT/T∼10−5ΔT/T∼10-5. Physical processes in the early universe have left their fingerprints in these CMB anisotropies, which later grew to become the galaxies and large scale structure we see today. CMB anisotropy observations are thus a key tool for cosmology. The Planck mission was the European Space Agency’s probe of the CMB. Its unique design allowed CMB anisotropies to be measured to greater precision over a wider range of scales than ever before. This article provides an introduction to the Planck mission, including its goals and motivation, its instrumentation and technology, the physics of the CMB, how the contaminating astrophysical foregrounds were overcome, and the key cosmological results that this mission has so far produced.
AU  - Clements,DL
DO  - 10.1080/00107514.2017.1362139
EP  - 348
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0010-7514
SP  - 331
TI  - An introduction to the Planck mission
T2  - Contemporary Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2017.1362139
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/50270
VL  - 58
ER  -
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