The EChO science case

Autor: Tinetti, Giovanna, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Hartogh, Paul, Isaak, Kate, Linder, Martin, Lovis, Christophe, Micela, Giusi, Ollivier, Marc, Puig, Ludovic, Ribas, Ignasi, Snellen, Ignas, Allard, Bruce Swinyard. France, Barstow, Joanna, Cho, James, Coustenis, Athena, Cockell, Charles, Correia, Alexandre, Decin, Leen, de Kok, Remco, Deroo, Pieter, Encrenaz, Therese, Forget, Francois, Glasse, Alistair, Griffith, Caitlin, Guillot, Tristan, Koskinen, Tommi, Lammer, Helmut, Leconte, Jeremy, Maxted, Pierre, Mueller-Wodarg, Ingo, Nelson, Richard, North, Chris, Pallé, Enric, Pagano, Isabella, Piccioni, Guseppe, Pinfield, David, Selsis, Franck, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Stixrude, Lars, Tennyson, Jonathan, Turrini, Diego, Beaulieu, Mariarosa Zapatero-Osorio. Jean-Philippe, Grodent, Denis, Guedel, Manuel, Luz, David, Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik, Ray, Tom, Rickman, Hans, Selig, Avri, Banaszkiewicz, Mark Swain. Marek, Barlow, Mike, Bowles, Neil, Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Gerard, Jean-Claude, Gizon, Laurent, Hornstrup, Allan, Jarchow, Christopher, Kerschbaum, Franz, Kovacs, Géza, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Lim, Tanya, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pace, Emanuele, Pascale, Enzo, Vandenbussche, Bart, Wright, Gillian, Adriani, Gonzalo Ramos Zapata. Alberto, Azzollini, Ruymán, Balado, Ana, Bryson, Ian, Burston, Raymond, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Di Giorgio, Anna, Griffin, Matt, Hoogeveen, Ruud, Ottensamer, Roland, Irshad, Ranah, Middleton, Kevin, Morgante, Gianluca, Pinsard, Frederic, Rataj, Mirek, Reess, Jean-Michel, Savini, Giorgio, Schrader, Jan-Rutger, Stamper, Richard, Abe, Berend Winter. L., Abreu, M., Achilleos, N., Ade, P., Adybekian, V., Affer, L., Agnor, C., Agundez, M., Alard, C., Alcala, J., Prieto, C. Allende, Floriano, F. J. Alonso, Altieri, F., Iglesias, C. A. Alvarez, Amado, P., Andersen, A., Aylward, A., Baffa, C., Bakos, G., Ballerini, P., Banaszkiewicz, M., Barber, R. J., Barrado, D., Barton, E. J., Batista, V., Bellucci, G., Avilés, J. A. Belmonte, Berry, D., Bézard, B., Biondi, D., Błęcka, M., Boisse, I., Bonfond, B., Bordé, P., Börner, P., Bouy, H., Brown, L., Buchhave, L., Budaj, J., Bulgarelli, A., Burleigh, M., Cabral, A., Capria, M. T., Cassan, A., Cavarroc, C., Cecchi-Pestellini, C., Cerulli, R., Chadney, J., Chamberlain, S., Charnoz, S., Jessen, N. Christian, Ciaravella, A., Claret, A., Claudi, R., Coates, A., Cole, R., Collura, A., Cordier, D., Covino, E., Danielski, C., Damasso, M., Deeg, H. J., Delgado-Mena, E., Del Vecchio, C., Demangeon, O., De Sio, A., De Wit, J., Dobrijévic, M., Doel, P., Dominic, C., Dorfi, E., Eales, S., Eiroa, C., Contreras, M. Espinoza, Esposito, M., Eymet, V., Fabrizio, N., Fernández, M., Castella, B. Femenía, Figueira, P., Filacchione, G., Fletcher, L., Focardi, M., Fossey, S., Fouqué, P., Frith, J., Galand, M., Gambicorti, L., Gaulme, P., López, R. J. García, Garcia-Piquer, A., Gear, W., Gerard, J. -C., Gesa, L., Giani, E., Gianotti, F., Gillon, M., Giro, E., Giuranna, M., Gomez, H., Gomez-Leal, I., Hernandez, J. Gonzalez, Merino, B. González, Graczyk, R., Grassi, D., Guardia, J., Guio, P., Gustin, J., Hargrave, P., Haigh, J., Hébrard, E., Heiter, U., Heredero, R. L., Herrero, E., Hersant, F., Heyrovsky, D., Hollis, M., Hubert, B., Hueso, R., Israelian, G., Iro, N., Irwin, P., Jacquemoud, S., Jones, G., Jones, H., Justtanont, K., Kehoe, T., Kerschbaum, F., Kerins, E., Kervella, P., Kipping, D., Koskinen, T., Krupp, N., Lahav, O., Laken, B., Lanza, N., Lellouch, E., Leto, G., Goldaracena, J. Licandro, Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Liu, S. J., Cicero, U. Lo, Lodieu, N., Lognonné, P., Lopez-Puertas, M., Lopez-Valverde, M. A., Rasmussen, I. Lundgaard, Luntzer, A., Machado, P., MacTavish, C., Maggio, A., Maillard, J. -P., Magnes, W., Maldonado, J., Mall, U., Marquette, J. -B., Mauskopf, P., Massi, F., Maurin, A. -S., Medvedev, A., Michaut, C., Miles-Paez, P., Montalto, M., Rodríguez, P. Montañés, Monteiro, M., Montes, D., Morais, H., Morales, J. C., Morales-Calderón, M., Morello, G., Martín, A. Moro, Moses, J., Bedon, A. Moya, Alcaino, F. Murgas, Oliva, E., Orton, G., Palla, F., Pancrazzi, M., Pantin, E., Parmentier, V., Parviainen, H., Ramírez, K. Y. Peña, Peralta, J., Perez-Hoyos, S., Petrov, R., Pezzuto, S., Pietrzak, R., Pilat-Lohinger, E., Piskunov, N., Prinja, R., Prisinzano, L., Polichtchouk, I., Poretti, E., Radioti, A., Ramos, A. A., Rank-Lüftinger, T., Read, P., Readorn, K., López, R. Rebolo, Rebordão, J., Rengel, M., Rezac, L., Rocchetto, M., Rodler, F., Béjar, V. J. Sánchez, Lavega, A. Sanchez, Sanromá, E., Santos, N., Forcada, J. Sanz, Scandariato, G., Schmider, F. -X., Scholz, A., Scuderi, S., Sethenadh, J., Shore, S., Showman, A., Sicardy, B., Sitek, P., Smith, A., Soret, L., Sousa, S., Stiepen, A., Stolarski, M., Strazzulla, G., Tabernero, H. M, Tanga, P., Tecsa, M., Temple, J., Terenzi, L., Tessenyi, M., Testi, L., Thompson, S., Thrastarson, H., Tingley, B. W., Trifoglio, M., Torres, J. Martín, Tozzi, A., Turrini, D., Varley, R., Vakili, F., de Val-Borro, M., Valdivieso, M. L., Venot, O., Villaver, E., Vinatier, S., Viti, S., Waldmann, I., Waltham, D., Ward-Thompson, D., Waters, R., Watkins, C., Watson, D., Wawer, P., Wawrzaszk, A., White, G., Widemann, T., Winek, W., Wiśniowski, T., Yelle, R., Yung, Y., Yurchenko, S. N.

The discovery of almost 2000 exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. Observations to date have shown that our Solar System is certainly not representative of the general population of planets in our Milky Way. The key scien

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05747

Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

Autor: Rahlin, A. S., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Crill, B. P., Doré, O., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Golwala, S., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hasselfield, M. F., Hilton, G., Holmes, W. A., Hristov, V. V., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Kermish, Z. D., Kuo, C. L., MacTavish, C. J., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., O'Brient, R., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Shariff, J. A., Soler, J. D., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., Weber, A. C., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

We present the results of integration and characterization of the SPIDER instrument after the 2013 pre-flight campaign. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to probe the primordial gravitational wave signal in the degree-scale $B$-mode pola

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2906

Design and construction of a carbon fiber gondola for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

Autor: Soler, J. D., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, C., Contaldi, C. C., Crill, B. P., Doré, O. P., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Golwala, S., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G. C., Holmes, W. A., Hristov, V. V., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Kermish, Z. D., Kuo, C. L., MacTavish, C. J., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K. G., Moncelsi, L., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., O'Brient, R., Rahlin, A. S., Reintsema, C. D., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Shariff, J. A., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., Weber, A. C., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

We introduce the light-weight carbon fiber and aluminum gondola designed for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope. SPIDER is designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation with unprecedented sensitivity and control of

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1881

EChOSim: The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory software simulator

Autor: Pascale, E., Waldmann, I. P., MacTavish, C. J., Papageorgiou, A., Amaral-Rogers, A., Varley, R., de Foresto, V. Coudé, Griffin, M. J., Ollivier, M., Sarkar, S., Spencer, L., Swinyard, B. M., Tessenyi, M., Tinetti, G.

EChOSim is the end-to-end time-domain simulator of the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) space mission. EChOSim has been developed to assess the capability EChO has to detect and characterize the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets, and

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3984

Planck 2013 results. XXIX. Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources

Autor: Planck Collaboration, Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N., Armitage-Caplan, C., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Atrio-Barandela, F., Aumont, J., Aussel, H., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Barrena, R., Bartelmann, M., Bartlett, J. G., Battaner, E., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernard, J. -P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bikmaev, I., Bobin, J., Bock, J. J., Böhringer, H., Bonaldi, A., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Bridges, M., Bucher, M., Burenin, R., Burigana, C., Butler, R. C., Cardoso, J. -F., Carvalho, P., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chamballu, A., Chary, R. -R., Chen, X., Chiang, H. C., Chiang, L. -Y, Chon, G., Christensen, P. R., Churazov, E., Church, S., Clements, D. L., Colombi, S., Colombo, L. P. L., Comis, B., Couchot, F., Coulais, A., Crill, B. P., Curto, A., Cuttaia, F., Da Silva, A., Dahle, H., Danese, L., Davies, R. D., Davis, R. J., de Bernardis, P., de Rosa, A., de Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Delouis, J. -M., Démoclès, J., Désert, F. -X., Dickinson, C., Diego, J. M., Dolag, K., Dole, H., Donzelli, S., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Enßlin, T. A., Eriksen, H. K., Feroz, F., Finelli, F., Flores-Cacho, I., Forni, O., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fromenteau, S., Galeotta, S., Ganga, K., Génova-Santos, R. T., Giard, M., Giardino, G., Gilfanov, M., Giraud-Héraud, Y., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K. M., Grainge, K. J. B., Gratton, S., Gregorio, A., Groeneboom, E., Gruppuso, A., Hansen, F. K., Hanson, D., Harrison, D., Hempel, A., Henrot-Versillé, S., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S. R., Hivon, E., Hobson, M., Holmes, W. A., Hornstrup, A., Hovest, W., Huffenberger, K. M., Hurier, G., Hurley-Walker, N., Jaffe, A. H., Jaffe, T. R., Jones, W. C., Juvela, M., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Khamitov, I., Kisner, T. S., Kneissl, R., Knoche, J., Knox, L., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lagache, G., Lähteenmäki, A., Lamarre, J. -M., Lasenby, A., Laureijs, R. J., Lawrence, C. R., Leahy, J. P., Leonardi, R., León-Tavares, J., Lesgourgues, J., Li, C., Liddle, A., Liguori, M., Lilje, P. B., Linden-Vørnle, M., López-Caniego, M., Lubin, P. M., Macías-Pérez, J. F., MacTavish, C. J., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Maris, M., Marshall, D. J., Martin, P. G., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Massardi, M., Matarrese, S., Matthai, F., Mazzotta, P., Mei, S., Meinhold, P. R., Melchiorri, A., Melin, J. -B., Mendes, L., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Mikkelsen, K., Mitra, S., Miville-Deschênes, M. -A., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mortlock, D., Munshi, D., Murphy, J. A., Naselsky, P., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Nesvadba, N. P. H., Netterfield, C. B., Nørgaard-Nielsen, H. U., Noviello, F., Novikov, D., Novikov, I., O'Dwyer, I. J., Olamaie, M., Osborne, S., Oxborrow, C. A., Paci, F., Pagano, L., Pajot, F., Paoletti, D., Pasian, F., Patanchon, G., Pearson, T. J., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Perrott, Y. C., Perrotta, F., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pierpaoli, E., Pietrobon, D., Plaszczynski, S., Pointecouteau, E., Polenta, G., Ponthieu, N., Popa, L., Poutanen, T., Pratt, G. W., Prézeau, G., Prunet, S., Puget, J. -L., Rachen, J. P., Reach, W. T., Rebolo, R., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renault, C., Ricciardi, S., Riller, T., Ristorcelli, I., Rocha, G., Rosset, C., Roudier, G., Rowan-Robinson, M., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Rumsey, C., Rusholme, B., Sandri, M., Santos, D., Saunders, R. D. E., Savini, G., Schammel, M. P., Scott, D., Seiffert, M. D., Shellard, E. P. S., Shimwell, T. W., Spencer, L. D., Starck, J. -L., Stolyarov, V., Stompor, R., Sudiwala, R., Sunyaev, R., Sureau, F., Sutton, D., Suur-Uski, A. -S., Sygnet, J. -F., Tauber, J. A., Tavagnacco, D., Terenzi, L., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tristram, M., Tucci, M., Tuovinen, J., Türler, M., Umana, G., Valenziano, L., Valiviita, J., Van Tent, B., Vibert, L., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vittorio, N., Wade, L. A., Wandelt, B. D., White, M., White, S. D. M., Yvon, D., Zacchei, A., Zonca, A.

We describe the all-sky Planck catalogue of clusters and cluster candidates derived from Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect detections using the first 15.5 months of Planck satellite observations. The catalogue contains 1227 entries, making it over six t

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5089