A degree scale anisotropy measurement of the cosmic microwave background near the star Gamma Ursae Minoris

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...413l...1g&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 413, no. 1, p. L1-L5.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

80

Anisotropy, Cosmic Rays, Relic Radiation, Autocorrelation, Background Radiation, Cosmology, Gregorian Antennas, Microwaves, Synchrotron Radiation

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Results from a search for anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are presented from the third flight of the Millimeter-wave Anisotropy experiment. The CMB observation occurred over 1.37 hours and covered a 6.24 sq deg area of the sky where very little foreground emission is expected. Significant correlated structure is observed at 6 and 9/cm. At 12/cm we place an upper limit on the structure. The relative amplitudes at 6, 9, and 12/cm are consistent with a CMB spectrum. The spectrum of the structure is inconsistent with thermal emission from known forms of interstellar dust. Synchrotron and free-free emission would both require unusually flat spectral indices at cm wavelengths in order to account for the amplitude of the observed structure. Although known systematic errors are not expected to contribute significantly to any of the three optical channels, excess sidelobe contamination cannot be definitively ruled out. If all the structure is attributed to CMB anisotropy, a value of the weighted rms of the 6 and 9/cm channels of Delta T/T(CMB) = 4.7 +/- 0.8 x 10 exp -5 (+/- 1 sigma) was measured. If the CMB anisotropy is assumed to have a Gaussian autocorrelation function with a coherence angle of 25 arcmin, then the most probable value is Delta T/T(CMB) = 4.2 +1.7 or -1.1 x 10 exp -5, where the +/- refers to the 95 percent confidence limits.

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