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Large Scale Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

R. B. Partridge
R. B. Partridge*
Affiliation:
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., U.S.A.

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It is now generally accepted that the microwave background radiation, discovered in 1965 (Penzias and Wilson, 1965; Dicke et al., 1965), is cosmological in origin. Measurements of the spectrum of the radiation, discussed earlier in this volume by Blair, are consistent with the idea that the radiation is in fact a relic of a hot, dense, initial state of the Universe – the Big Bang. If the radiation is cosmological, measurements of both its spectrum and its angular distribution are capable of providing important – and remarkably precise – cosmological data.

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Part III: Relic Radiation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 63: Confrontation of Cosmological Theories , 1974 , pp. 157 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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