A First Map of the Cosmic Microwave Background at 0.5 degrees Resolution
Abstract
We use a Maximum Entropy technique to reconstruct a map of the microwave sky near the star Gamma Ursae Minoris, based on data from flights 2, 3 and 4 of the Millimeter-wave Anisotropy eXperiment (MAX).
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1086/187834
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9410088
- Bibcode:
- 1995ApJ...443L..53W
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Maps;
- Background Radiation;
- Maximum Entropy Method;
- Microwaves;
- Power Spectra;
- Anisotropy;
- Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite;
- Lagrange Multipliers;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Space Temperature;
- Spectral Resolution;
- Temperature Gradients;
- Astrophysics;
- COSMOLOGY: COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND;
- METHODS: NUMERICAL;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages plus 3 postscript figures, uuencoded compressed postscript, CfPA-94-TH-54