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New Results on CMB Structure from the Tenerife Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

R.D. Davies ,
C.M. Gutiérrez ,
R.A. Watson ,
R. Rebolo ,
A.N. Lasenby  and
S. Hancock
R.D. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield SK11 9DL, UK
C.M. Gutiérrez
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield SK11 9DL, UK
R.A. Watson
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
R. Rebolo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
A.N. Lasenby
Affiliation:
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK
S. Hancock
Affiliation:
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK

Abstract

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Temperature fluctuations in the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) are a key prediction of cosmological models of structure formation in the early Universe. Observations at the Teide Observatory, Tenerife using radiometers operating at 10, 15 and 33 GHz have revealed individual hot and cold features in the microwave sky at high Galactic latitudes. These well-defined features are not atmospheric or Galactic in origin; they represent the first detection of individual primordial fluctuations in the CMB. Their intensity is defined by an intrinsic rms amplitude of 54−10+14 μK for a model with a coherence angle of 4°. The expected quadrupole term for a Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum is QRMS–PS = 26 ± 6 μK. When our data at Dec=+40° are compared with the COBE DMR two-year data, the presence of individual features is confirmed. New experiments to detect structure on smaller scales are described.

Type
Part II: Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 168: Examining the Big Bang and the Diffuse Background Radiations , 1996 , pp. 453 - 460
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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