Results from the Cosmic Background Explorer
Abstract
COBE has produced significant new scientific findings and results in the past year. The DMR instrument reported detections of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. The DMR data are consistent with power law spectrum of Gaussian initial fluctuations with the quadrupole-normalized amplitude of Qrms-PS = 17±3 μK and a power law index n = 1.1 ± 0.6. These data are supportive of models of structure formation through gravitational instability.
- Publication:
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Present and Future of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Pub Date:
- 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1007/3-540-57755-6_31
- Bibcode:
- 1994LNP...429...67S