Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1994. 32: 319-70 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved

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KEY WORDS: background radiation, cosmology, theory, dark matter, early universe

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• Recombination
• Sources of T/T
• THEORY
• Inflation
• Structure Formation Theories
• The Correlation Function
• Fluctuations
• POWER SPECTRUM
• Power Spectrum on Large Scales
• Power Spectra on Smaller Scales
• The Observed Power Spectrum
• DATA ANALYSIS
• The Gaussian Auto-Correlation Function
• Window Functions
• Fitting Data
• BEYOND LINEAR THEORY
• Reionization
• Second-Order Anisotropies
• UNCERTAINTIES
• NON-STANDARD COSMOLOGIES
• Polarization
• Open Universes
• Effects of a Cosmological Constant
• Topology
• CONCLUSIONS
• APPENDIXES
• Some Useful Numbers
• Sachs-Wolfe Effect
• REFERENCES
• NOTE ADDED IN PROOF