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REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS

Cosmological results from the Planck space mission and their comparison with data from the WMAP and BICEP2 experiments

O. V. Verkhodanov

Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Zelenchukskiy region, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic

Abstract: We review basic results from the European Space Agency's Planck space mission, which are of crucial significance to understanding the origin and evolution of the Universe. The main stages of astrophysical and cosmological data processing pipelines are considered. The Planck results are compared with the data from the NASA WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) space mission and the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2) experiment.

Keywords: cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmology, data analysis.

PACS: 95.75.-z, 98.70.Vc, 98.80.-k

Received: August 1, 2015
Revised: August 21, 2015
Accepted: August 24, 2015

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0186.201601b.0003

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2016, 59:1, 3–41

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