Mapping the Sky with the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers
Abstract
The Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) instrument on COBE is designed to determine the anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background by providing all-sky maps of the diffuse sky brightness at microwave frequencies. The principal intent of this lecture is to show how these maps are generated from differential measurements.
- Publication:
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The Infrared and Submillimetre Sky after COBE
- Pub Date:
- 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992ASIC..359..391J
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Maps;
- Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite;
- Microwave Radiometers;
- Relic Radiation;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Brightness Temperature;
- Error Analysis;
- Linear Equations;
- Sky Brightness;
- Astrophysics