Astronomy Colloquium

Early Astrophysics Results from Planck

Krzysztof Gorski, JPL,

Planck has been measuring the sky at nine frequencies from 30 to 857 GHz since August 2009. Designed to extract almost all of the information contained in temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background and to improve significantly our knowledge of CMB polarization, Planck can also address a large range of Galactic and extragalactic astrophysics. I will describe some early astrophysics results from Planck, and discuss Planck's promise and schedule for cosmology.

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