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MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION
Rainer Weiss
1
Department of
Physics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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
1 Supported in part by NASA Grant NGR
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