• The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) published between 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index. (nature.com)
  • Animation of the Planck spacecraft build-up, showing the different components from the inside out. (esa.int)
  • A new study based on polarisation data from ESA's Planck spacecraft finds no new evidence for large-scale "anomalies" in the Cosmic Microwave Background. (astronomynow.com)
  • Data from ESA's Planck spacecraft and the European Southern Observatory's international APEX experiment are combined to produce a unique view across the entire plane of the Milky Way galaxy showing details large and small, from the galactic core to its outer neighbourhoods. (astronomynow.com)
  • While the end of this outstanding scientific mission was always foreseen with the exhaustion of the helium coolant, it seems fitting that we have a colleague from the science team to send the final command that once and for all silences the Planck spacecraft. (webpronews.com)
  • On May 14, 2009 - Just ten years ago today, an Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, with two spacecraft, Herschel and Planck. (thalesgroup.com)
  • Scientists met last week at the University of California, Davis to pore over the treasure trove of data published two months ago from the European Planck spacecraft. (nbcnews.com)
  • This image of the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission , supplemented with data from ESA's retired Planck observatory and two retired NASA missions: the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). (nasa.gov)
  • The Planck observatory, launched in 2009, and COBE, launched in 1989, both studied the cosmic microwave background, or light left over from the big bang. (nasa.gov)
  • The Planck observatory will be shut down entirely on Wednesday, October 23 when its transmitters are switched off. (webpronews.com)
  • That observatory was deactivated in June and was, like Planck, sent out of its L2 Sun-Earth Lagrange Point orbit an onto a safe heliocentric disposal orbit. (webpronews.com)
  • The Planck scientific observatory was designed to study the cosmic background noise, or in other words the fossil radiation from the "first light" of the Universe, emitted some 380,000 years after the big bang, or about 13.8 billion years ago. (thalesgroup.com)
  • The Hubble Space Telescope imaged a distant cluster of galaxies that was found by ESA's Planck satellite, which detected distortions in the cosmic background radiation caused by the cluster's gravity. (astronomynow.com)
  • ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. (astronomynow.com)
  • This image comes courtesy of ESA's Planck satellite, which spent years mapping the entire sky in exquisite detail between 2009 and 2013. (astronomynow.com)
  • New maps from ESA's Planck satellite uncover the 'polarised' light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought. (spaceref.com)
  • But there is more: the CMB carries additional clues about our cosmic history that are encoded in its 'polarisation'," explains Jan Tauber, ESA's Planck project scientist. (spaceref.com)
  • Researchers from Kobe University, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Toyo University, and Simon Fraser University have studied how people's willingness to take risks changes before and after payday. (mpg.de)
  • Researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the Population Research Institute and Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland) have investigated whether the desire to have children has changed among the younger generations. (mpg.de)
  • The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. (mpg.de)
  • Using behavioral and hormonal data from a habituated bonobo community at the long-term LuiKotale field site in the Democratic Republic of Congo researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Harvard University and the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology have now shown that same-sex sexual behavior in female bonobos increases friendly social interactions, including cooperation. (mpg.de)
  • Two new studies of researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Osnabrück provide the first evidence that a cooperatively breeding bird species (Arabian babblers) demonstrates distinct hallmarks of joint-attentional skills, which have been traditionally ascribed to humans only. (mpg.de)
  • The Max Planck Institute for Informatics is devoted to cutting-edge research in informatics with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. (mpg.de)
  • An interview with Birgit Kolboske, historian at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science about her book "Hierarchies. (bingj.com)
  • former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. (lu.se)
  • This month, researchers working on the Planck project released their first science data - including new galaxy clusters and clouds of cold gas in the Milky Way. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • In the Max Planck Society, 30 researchers have been honoured with the iconic award. (bingj.com)
  • Max Planck received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1919. (nobelprize.org)
  • The center is composed by two research groups from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) and four groups from two different Max Planck Institutes. (utwente.nl)
  • Two Max Planck Institutes are involved in the research: From the Max Planck for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen (DE), the research groups of Stephan Herminghaus (Dynamics of Complex Fluids group) and Eberhard Bodenschatz (Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity). (utwente.nl)
  • What are the research topics of the Max Planck Institutes? (bingj.com)
  • When it comes to training and supporting doctoral students, Max Planck institutes have a wealth of experience to call on. (bingj.com)
  • The shutdown of Planck is very similar to another ESA mission that concluded this year, Herschel. (webpronews.com)
  • The two spaceborne observatories, Herschel and Planck, built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for the European Space Agency (ESA), were designed to further our understanding of the Universe. (thalesgroup.com)
  • One of the largest contracts ever signed for a scientific mission, Herschel and Planck were designed to operate from an orbit at Lagrange Point 2 (L2), about 1.5 million kilometers (a million miles) from the Earth. (thalesgroup.com)
  • These two spaceborne telescopes were designed to unveil some of the Universe's most closely guarded secrets, namely the formation of stars and galaxies (Herschel) and the big bang (Planck). (thalesgroup.com)
  • Once in orbit, Herschel and Planck could start their scientific missions. (thalesgroup.com)
  • Herschel and Planck carried out their missions to perfection, and even beyond the call of duty, since Planck exceeded its specified mission lifetime by 18 months and Herschel by 6 months, finishing at the end of October 2013 and the end of April 2013, respectively. (thalesgroup.com)
  • For Thales Alenia Space, the Herschel/Planck program augured well for future success in the scientific sphere, as the company subsequently won both the Euclid contract and part of the Plato mission. (thalesgroup.com)
  • Both of these missions entail requirements and orbits which are similar to those on Herschel/Planck. (thalesgroup.com)
  • Magnetism, Correlated Systems and X-rays (14-15 March 2019): Joachim Gräfe, Max Planck Inst. (lu.se)
  • The European Space Agency (ESA) today announced that it has burned off the last of the Planck space observatory's fuel. (webpronews.com)
  • Planck was both an influential scientist and a central figure within the German scientific community. (nobelprize.org)
  • We have the best map ever of the cosmic microwave background, and that shows us what the universe was like 370,000 years after the Big Bang," said Charles Lawrence, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California who is the lead U.S. scientist on the Planck project. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Planck mission launched in May 2009 to survey the cosmic microwave background - the radiation left over from the big bang that blankets the universe. (webpronews.com)
  • Once freed from the fog, the light was set on its cosmic journey that would take it all the way to the present day, where telescopes like Planck detect it as the CMB. (spaceref.com)
  • The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was first discovered in 1964, and since then a series of experiments, culminating in Planck, have measured it in increasing detail, providing cosmologists a direct line to test theories about the beginnings of the universe. (nbcnews.com)
  • Already some "anomalies" in the Planck data appear to deviate from the standard expectations, and if borne out, these deviations could point the way toward new physics, scientists say. (nbcnews.com)
  • Although Planck will measure the large scales more accurately and in more wavelengths than WMAP before it, that science has already been done, and Planck will only refine it, not overthrow it. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The analysis of dissipative transport equations within the framework of open quantum systems with Fokker-Planck-type scattering is carried out from the perspective of a Wigner function approach. (projecteuclid.org)
  • Anton Arnold, José L. López, Peter A. Markowich, Juan Soler "An analysis of quantum Fokker-Planck models: A Wigner function approach," Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, Rev. Mat. (projecteuclid.org)
  • From the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) viewpoint, the ground state energy density of the universe should account for a bulk of various contributions from existing quantum fields at energy scales ranging from the Quantum Gravity (Planck) scale, MPL 1.2 · 1019 GeV, down to the QCD confinement scale, QCD 0.1 GeV. (lu.se)
  • Also it is well known, that an every field in the universe forms a divergent perturbative vacuum contribution, which is usually cut off at the Planck scale. (lu.se)
  • It's part of the Max Planck Society , the internationally renowned German research society. (mpg.de)
  • Scientists from the Planck collaboration have published the results from the analysis of these data in a large number of scientific papers over the past two years, confirming the standard cosmological picture of our Universe with ever greater accuracy. (spaceref.com)
  • The relation accounts for the quantized nature of light and plays a key role in understanding phenomena such as the photoelectric effect and black-body radiation (where the related Planck postulate can be used to derive Planck's law). (wikipedia.org)
  • Max Planck solved this problem in 1900 by introducing the theory of "quanta", that is, that radiation consists of quanta with specific energies determined by a new fundamental constant, thereafter called Planck's constant. (nobelprize.org)
  • They've figured out how to subtract the galactic foreground in all of the seven wavelength-bands where Planck operates to unprecedented sensitivity, and the science is ready to be released! (scienceblogs.com)
  • Tomorrow morning, at 8 AM my time, the press conference that cosmologists have spent the past decade waiting for will finally happen, and the Planck satellite -- the most powerful satellite ever to measure the leftover radiation from the Big Bang -- will finally unveil its results about the origin and composition of the Universe. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In the context of General Relativity, our tried-and-true description of gravity in this Universe, only an expanding, cooling Universe in the context of the Big Bang leads to these three predictions simultaneously, and nothing the Planck satellite observes will change that. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The Max Planck Center is a research network dedicated to study the complexities of fluid dynamics, in its broadest sense. (utwente.nl)
  • From the Max Planck for Polymer Research in Mainz (DE), the research groups of Hans-Jürgen Butt (Physics of Interfaces) and Katharina Landfester (Physical Chemistry of Polymers). (utwente.nl)
  • SkyView now provides access to the Planck all-sky survey data in nine frequency bands from 30 to 857 GHz. (nasa.gov)
  • Currently we are using the data as released by the Planck team-a single file for each band. (nasa.gov)
  • We are looking at tiling the Planck data to enable more rapid response when users are interested in only a fraction of the sky. (nasa.gov)
  • Planck launched in 2009, and the recent data represent the product of the spacecraft's first 15.5 months of observations. (nbcnews.com)
  • Ultimately, all of the scientists expressed their thrill at being able to plunge into some of the thorniest questions about the universe using the exquisite data from Planck. (nbcnews.com)
  • Max Planck study shows that 1 out of 4 scientists who patent their results also establish their own business. (mpg.de)
  • Between 2009 and 2013, Planck surveyed the sky to study this ancient light in unprecedented detail. (spaceref.com)
  • Astronomers are currently in the process of ending the Planck mission. (webpronews.com)
  • This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. (nbcnews.com)
  • Planck delivered vital information concerning the creation of the Universe and our own Solar System. (thalesgroup.com)
  • Let's use this opportunity to take a look back on what we know right now, where-and-what the uncertainties are, and what Planck can (or, at the very least, might ) teach us about the Universe! (scienceblogs.com)
  • That these are real features of the microwave background sky has really been firmed up by Planck, but how to make sense of them isn't clear, so there's some excitement about them and some people are going after this as a clue. (nbcnews.com)
  • But there are some things that Planck can shed some light on, which have the potential to be extremely exciting! (scienceblogs.com)
  • Also, the admissibility of a density matrix formulation in Lindblad form with Fokker-Planck dissipation mechanisms is discussed. (projecteuclid.org)
  • The standard forms make use of the Planck constant h. (wikipedia.org)
  • The angular forms make use of the reduced Planck constant ħ = h/2π. (wikipedia.org)
  • Combining de Broglie's postulate with the Planck-Einstein relation leads to p = h ν ~ {\displaystyle p=h{\tilde {\nu }}} or p = ℏ k . {\displaystyle p=\hbar k. (wikipedia.org)
  • Users not affiliated with Lund University may be permitted access to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law, but only within the physical premises of Lund University Libraries. (lu.se)