The Planck On-Flight Forecaster (POFF)
M. Massardi, C. Burigana

TL;DR
POFF is a versatile tool that predicts satellite observation windows for specific sky positions, aiding multi-frequency data collection and scientific analysis of point sources in Planck satellite data.
Contribution
It introduces a flexible, validated IDL-based tool for planning observations with Planck and other instruments, enhancing scientific exploitation of satellite data.
Findings
Successfully used within Planck collaboration for observation planning
Enables multi-frequency, simultaneous data collection
Facilitates variability and spectral energy distribution studies
Abstract
The Planck On-Fligh Forecaster (POFF) is a tool to predict when a position in the sky will be within a selected angular distance from any receiver direction of the Planck satellite according to its pre-programmed observational strategy. This tool has been developed in the framework of the Planck LFI Core Team activities, but it is now used by the whole collaboration. In this paper we will describe the tool and its applications to plan observations with other instruments of point sources which are expected to enhance the possibilities of scientific exploitation of the Planck satellite data, once they will be publicly available. Collecting simultaneous multi-frequency data, like those that can be planned with the POFF, will help, on one hand, to investigate variability of point sources and, on the other, to reconstruct point source spectral energy distributions on wide frequency ranges…
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