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The Planck Satellite. Matthew Trimble 10/1/12. Useful Physics. Observing at a redshift = looking at light from a very distant object that was emitted a long time ago The ‘temperature’ of the CMB is the temperature of a blackbody that would emit the energy spectrum seen by the photons - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The Planck Satellite

Matthew Trimble10/1/12

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Useful Physics

• Observing at a redshift = looking at light from a very distant object that was emitted a long time ago

• The ‘temperature’ of the CMB is the temperature of a blackbody that would emit the energy spectrum seen by the photons

• Fun Fact: CMB is most ideal blackbody spectrum ever recorded

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Need For Planck

• Space vs. Ground telescopes• Hubble: Launched 1990• WMAP: Launched 2001, now in graveyard

orbit• Planck: Launched 2009• Better resolution of CMB

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Spacecraft Design

• ~4.2 m high X 4.2 m wide• 1.95 tonnes• Three stage cooling system and shielding from

Sun to minimize background radiation• 1.9 m x 1.5 m primary mirror• Lifetime: 15+ months, dependant on cooling

system degradation• Propulsion: 12 20N thrusters, 4 1N thrusters

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Special Orbit

• Lissajous Orbit around L2• Propulsion only needed for corrections

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Instruments

• Telescope: 1.9 x 1.5 m primary mirror, effective aperture of 1.5 m.

• Low Frequency Instrument: observes wavelengths from 3.9 mm to 11.1 mm.

• High Frequency Instrument: observes from .3 mm to 3.6 mm.

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Cosmic Microwave Background

• After Big Bang, radiation and matter were coupled (no light emitted)

• As expanding universe cooled, it reached 3000K at matter began thermally radiating photons

• This radiation is the CMB, which has now increased wavelength to the microwave, and ‘cooled’ to ~2.7K

• CMB temperature is not homogenous, but early measurements were not able to detect the tiny fluctuations

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Large Scale Properties of Universe

• Large scale properties: density, number of atoms in visible universe, etc.

• Planck will be able to accurately measure how certain properties (density) evolved over time.

• That data allows other properties (# atoms) to be determined with low uncertainty.

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Dark Matter

• Doesn’t interact with radiation, therefore it is literally dark.

• Presence can only be inferred by gravitational interactions with luminous matter.

• Planck will detect the gravitational lensing the CMB undergoes due to dark matter.

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Inflation

• The theorized extremely rapid expansion of the early universe.

• Currently explains much of the Universe’s features.

• Planck will investigate possible causes of inflation, and try to determine if expansion will continue, or if the universe will eventually collapse in a Big Crunch.

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Primordial Gravitational Waves

• Hypothesized to exist during inflation.• Gravitational waves carry information about

the event that triggered the wave.• Detecting these ancient waves through the

CMB would give strong evidence for Inflation.

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Inhomogeneities of Early Space

• Our universe is not homogenous: full of galaxy clusters and large voids.

• Likely, there were inhomogeneities very early on, which formed into the complex structures we have today.

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Microwave Study of Galaxies

• Milky Way: create the first map the cold dust distributed along spiral arms, and the first detailed, 3D map of the Milky Way’s magnetic field.

• Other: Using the Sunyaev- Zel'dovich effect, Planck can catalogue distant galaxy clusters.

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Conclusion

• “Planck will measure the fluctuations of the CMB with an accuracy set by fundamental astrophysical limits.”

• Planck has the capabilities to verify a large portion of cosmology and particle physics that has yet to be figured out.

• Data will not be released until 2013, but the astrophysical community overall expects good results from Planck.

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References• 1. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/SEMWN20YUFF_0.html• 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_orbit• 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#L2• 4. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/SEMQ05XX3RF_0.html• 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_(spacecraft)• 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)• 7. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/09/04/guest-

post-doug-finkbeiner-on-fermi-bubbles-and-microwave-haze/• 8. http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Cosmic-Microwave-

Background-Radiation-267543.html• 9. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/07/scienceshot-planck-

satellites-fi.html