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Physical Society Colloquium

Special Physical Society Colloquium

The Scientific Case of the Planck Mission

George Efstathiou

Institute of Astronomy
Cambridge University

The PLANCK is the next major space mission following WMAP which is designed to map the anisotropies of the CMB radiation. It is scheduled for launch in August 2008. I will discuss the current state of the mission and show results for simulations designed to quantify errors of the maps and power spectra. I will also describe prospects of detecting tensor mode anisotropies with PLANCK.

Wednesday, January 24th 2007, 11:00
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Bldg., room M1