DIRECT OBSERVATION OF STRUCTURE IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND

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作者
HANCOCK, S
DAVIES, RD
LASENBY, AN
DELACRUZ, CMG
WATSON, RA
REBOLO, R
BECKMAN, JE
机构
[1] INST ASTROFIS CANARIAS,E-38071 LA LAGUNA,SPAIN
[2] UNIV CAMBRIDGE,CAVENDISH LAB,MULLARD RADIO ASTRON OBSERV,CAMBRIDGE CB3 0HE,ENGLAND
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D O I
10.1038/367333a0
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background are a key prediction of cosmological models of structure formation in the early Universe. Ground-based multi-frequency radio observations of the microwave background reveal well defined features that are not of atmospheric or Galactic origin; instead, they delineate the primordial density perturbations from which the structure in the present Universe originated. The amplitude of these perturbations confirms the earlier statistical detection by the COBE satellite.
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页码:333 / 338
页数:6
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