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Planck 2013 results. XIV. Zodiacal emission

Abstract

The Planck satellite provides a set of all-sky maps at nine frequencies from 30 GHz to 857 GHz. Planets, minor bodies, and diffuse interplanetary dust emission (IPD) are all observed. The IPD can be separated from Galactic and other emissions because Planck views a given point on the celestial sphere multiple times, through different columns of IPD. We use the Planck data to investigate the behaviour of zodiacal emission over the whole sky at sub-millimetre and millimetre wavelengths. We fit the Planck data to find the emissivities of the various components of the COBE zodiacal model – a diffuse cloud, three asteroidal dust bands, a circumsolar ring, and an Earth-trailing feature. The emissivity of the diffuse cloud decreases with increasing wavelength, as expected from earlier analyses. The emissivities of the dust bands, however, decrease less rapidly, indicating that the properties of the grains in the bands are different from those in the diffuse cloud. We fit the small amount of Galactic emission seen through the telescope's far sidelobes, and place limits on possible contamination of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) results from both zodiacal and far-sidelobe emission. When necessary, the results are used in the Planck pipeline to make maps with zodiacal emission and far sidelobes removed. We show that the zodiacal correction to the CMB maps is small compared to the Planck CMB temperature power spectrum and give a list of flux densities for small solar system bodies.

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© 2014 ESO. Article published by EDP Sciences. Received 25 March 2013; Accepted 4 March 2014; Published online 29 October 2014. This paper benefited from exchanges with Dale Fixsen, Tom Kelsall and Janet Weiland. We acknowledge the IN2P3 Computer Center (http://cc.in2p3.fr) for providing a significant amount of the computing resources and services needed for this work. We acknowledge the use of the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA). Support for LAMBDA is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science. The development of Planck has been supported by: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MICINN, JA and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and PRACE (EU). A description of the Planck Collaboration and a list of its members, including the technical or scientific activities in which they have been involved, can be found at http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=planck&page=Planck_Collaboration.

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European Space Agency (ESA)
Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU)
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)
NASA
Department of Energy (DOE)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
Junta de Andalucía
Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)
Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy
Academy of Finland
Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Max Planck Society
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
DTU Space (Denmark)
State Secretariat for Education and Research (Switzerland)
Swiss Space Office (SSO)
Research Council of Norway
Science Foundation, Ireland
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (MCTES)
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)

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