A Degree-Scale Measurement of the Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Author
- Page, Lyman
- Published
- 1995.
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- Wilkinson, David, Wollack, Ed, Netterfield, Barth, and Jarosik, Norm
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- We report the detection of anisotropy in the microwave sky at 3O GHz and at l deg angular scales. The most economical interpretation of the data is that the fluctuations are intrinsic to the cosmic microwave background. However, galactic free-free emission is ruled out with only 90% confidence. The most likely root-mean-squared amplitude of the fluctuations, assuming they are described by a Gaussian auto-correlation function with a coherence angle of 1.2 deg, is 41(+16/-13) (mu)K. We also present limits on the anisotropy of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
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- Document ID: 19970023599.
Accession ID: 97N23887.
NAS 1.26:204888.
NASA-CR-204888.
Astrophysical Letters and Communications(ISSN 0888-6512); Volume 32; 217-222. - Terms of Use and Reproduction
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