Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0606643

From: Martin White [view email]

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:13:20 GMT (214kb)

Cosmological science enabled by Planck

Authors: Martin White

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, proceedings of the UC Irvine conference on cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization anisotropies

Planck will be the first mission to map the entire cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky with mJy sensitivity and resolution better than 10'. The science enabled by such a mission spans many areas of astrophysics and cosmology. In particular it will lead to a revolution in our understanding of primary and secondary CMB anisotropies, the constraints on many key cosmological parameters will be improved by almost an order of magnitude (to sub-percent levels) and the shape and amplitude of the mass power spectrum at high redshift will be tightly constrained.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606643