Measurement of the cosmic microwave background spectrum by the COBE FIRAS instrument

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Background Radiation, Cosmic Rays, Cosmology, Far Infrared Radiation, Infrared Spectrophotometers, Microwave Spectra, Universe, Black Body Radiation, Brightness Distribution, Calibrating, Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite, Data Processing, Error Analysis, Red Shift

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The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) has a blackbody spectrum within 3.4 x 10-8 ergs/sq cm/s/sr cm over the frequency range from 2 to 20/cm (5-0.5 mm). These measurements, derived from the Far-Infrared Absolute Spectrophotomer (FIRAS) instrument on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, imply stringent limits on energy release in the early universe after t approximately 1 year and redshift z approximately 3 x 106. The deviations are less than 0.30% of the peak brightness, with an rms value of 0.01%, and the dimensionless cosmological distortion parameters are limited to the absolute value of y is less than 2.5 x 10-5 and the absolute value of mu is less than 3.3 x 10-4 (95% confidence level). The temperature of the CMBR is 2.726 +/- 0.010 K (95% confidence level systematic).

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