Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1980. 18: 489-535 Copyright © 1980 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved

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Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPECTRUM
• (a) Receivers
• (b) Antenna
• (c) Calibration
• (d) Atmospheric Emission and Absorption
• (e) Galactic Background Contribution
• (f) Summary of the Low Frequency Measurements
• (g) High Frequency Observations of the Spectrum
• MEASUREMENTS OF THE LARGE ANGULAR SCALE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION OF THE CBR
• LIMITS ON THE LINEAR POLARIZATION OF THE CBR
• THE COBE PROJECT
• REFERENCES

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