While Planck’s measurements in large part confirmed ... Researchers hoped the polarization map could answer questions about the meaning of the anomalies they’d been watching in the temperature ...

On May 7, Planck released a map showing the polarization of the heat emitted by interstellar dust. Space-based Planck has a view of the entire sky, but the South Pole-based BICEP2 detector focuses on ...

The Planck mission has now obtained two completely new maps of the polarization of the sky, one of the synchrotron emission[5] of the electrons in cosmic radiation, and the other of the emission ...

As a result, the polarization of the CMB provides crucial ... (HFI), which spans six frequency bands from 100 to 857 GHz, the Planck collaboration has drawn up the most intricate maps of the of the ...

Determining whether evidence for primordial gravitational waves is a true detection requires a full-sky map of the polarization from dust, recorded at several frequencies. At present, only Planck ...

The temperature maps and the science they produced have ... This effect is called gravitational lensing. Planck mapped polarization—as did a NASA telescope in the 2000s—but with limited ...

all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, down to a resolution of about 7 degrees. About a decade ago, WMAP managed to get that down to about half-a-degree resolution. But Planck?

Just last week, Planck released new maps of the cosmic microwave background ... pattern in the cosmic microwave background called polarization. These polarization measurements are really important ...

Planck mapped the polarization of the entire sky at seven ... emphasize that the current maps are not the final word. “The results are not definitive,” says Knox. Scott Dodelson, a cosmologist ...

Scientists have found a more practical way to map the field using the Planck telescope. To do so, Planck measured the polarization of microwave light that permeates space. When light is polarized ...

Planck probe's survey of polarized light casts further doubt on BICEP2's gravitational-wave discovery claims. A map of interstellar dust unveiled today 1 has substantially lowered the chances that ...

Now, scientists have compared Planck’s map of those temperature anomalies – where space itself is just slightly warmer or cooler than the average of just above absolute zero – to a map of the sky’s ...