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The Planck satellite is a joint ESA/NASA mission that will be used to map the Cosmic Microwave Background at frequencies between 30 and 850 GHz. As well as making sensitive detections of both CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies, Planck will provide a wealth of information on many different classes of sources at mm wavelengths, including an all-sky survey of the Sunyaev-Zel-dovich effect. At Stanford we will have access to Planck data after its launch in 2007. We are looking for students who will analyze Planck data. Prior to launch students will simulate observations and data products using ground test data that is currently being acquired. Note, this opportunity is limited to Stanford Physics or Applied Physics students only
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For more information:
- ESA Planck webpage Detailed but dull
- Cardiff Planck webpage Has some nice pictures of the integration of the High Frequency Instrument, one of the two instruments that will fly on Planck.
- Presentation by Francois Bouchet at the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference "Open Questions in Cosmology:the First Billion Years". This is a pretty large pdf file.
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