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The cosmic microwave background radiationA review the implications of the spectrum and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background for cosmology. Thermalization and processes generating spectral distortions are discussed. Anisotropy predictions are described and compared with observational constraints. If the evidence for large-scale power in the galaxy distribution in excess of that predicted by the cold dark matter model is vindicated, and the observed structure originated via gravitational instabilities of primordial density fluctuations, the predicted amplitude of microwave background anisotropies on angular scales of a degree and larger must be at least several parts in 10 exp 6.
Document ID
19930067711
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Silk, Joseph
(California Univ. Berkeley, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: The infrared and submillimetre sky after COBE; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, Mar. 20-30, 1991 (A93-51701 22-90)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject Category
Space Radiation
Accession Number
93A51708
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGR-05-003-578
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Public
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