MEASUREMENTS OF ANISOTROPY IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND-RADIATION AT 0-DEGREES.5 ANGULAR SCALES NEAR THE STAR GAMMA-URSAE MINORIS

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作者
DEVLIN, MJ
CLAPP, AC
GUNDERSEN, JO
HAGMANN, CA
HRISTOV, VV
LANGE, AE
LIM, MA
LUBIN, PM
MAUSKOPF, PD
MEINHOLD, PR
RICHARDS, PL
SMOOT, GF
TANAKA, ST
TIMBIE, PT
WUENSCHE, CA
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,DEPT PHYS,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
[2] LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,DEPT PHYS,BERKELEY,CA 94720
[3] INST NACL PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS,MCT,DEPT ASTROFIS,BR-12200 S JOSE CAMPOS,SP,BRAZIL
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY; OBSERVATIONS;
D O I
10.1086/187423
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present results from a four-frequency observation of a 6-degrees x 0.6-degrees strip of the sky centered near the star Gamma Ursae Minoris (GUM) during the fourth flight of the Millimeter-wave Anisotropy experiment (MAX). The observation was made with a 1.4-degrees peak-to-peak sinusoidal chop in all bands. The FWHM beam sizes were 0.55-degrees +/- 0.05-degrees at 3.5 cm-1 and 0.75-degrees +/- 0.05-degrees at 6, 9, and 14 cm-1. During this observation significant correlated structure was observed at 3.5, 6 and 9 cm-1 with amplitudes similar to those observed in the GUM region during the second and third flights of MAX. The frequency spectrum is consistent with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and inconsistent with thermal emission from interstellar dust. The extrapolated amplitudes of synchrotron and free-free emission are too small to account for the amplitude of the observed structure. If all of the structure is attributed to CMB anisotropy with a Gaussian autocorrelation function and a coherence angle of 25/, then the most probable values of DELTAT/T(CMB), in the 3.5, 6, and 9 cm-1 bands are 4.3(-1.6)+2.7 X 10(-5), 2.8(-1.1)+4.3 X 10(-5), and 3.5(-1.6)+3.0 X 10(-5) (95% confidence upper and lower limits), respectively.
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