Next release of such results, which will include the full dataset and further refinement in the analyses, is expected in 2014, he added.
"Based on a decade-long research programme at IUCAA, the Indian team made significant contribution in alleviating effects from the complex instrumental response, as well as, in the search for subtle violations of the cosmological principle that is a key fundamental assumption in standard cosmology," Mitra said.
The correction for complicated oddities of the instrument response has been critical for accurate estimation of key cosmological results from Planck data.
Planck is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) and designed to observe the "anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background at a high sensitivity and angular resolution.
Planck was built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center by Thales Alenia Space and created as the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of the European Space Agency's Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme.
The project, initially called COBRAS/SAMBA, is named in honour of the German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
