Structure in the COBE differential microwave radiometer first-year maps
Structure in the COBE differential microwave radiometer first-year maps
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10.1086/186504
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1992-09
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G. Smoot;C. Bennett;A. Kogut;E. Wright;J. Aymon;N. Boggess;E. Cheng;G. Amici;S. Gulkis;M. Hauser;G. Hinshaw;P. Jackson;M. Janssen;E. Kaita;T. Kelsall;P. Keegstra;C. Lineweaver;K. Löwenstein;P. Lubin;J. Mather;S. Meyer;S. Moseley;T. Murdock;L. Rokke;R. Silverberg;L. Tenorio;R. Weiss;D. Wilkinson
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G. Smoot;C. Bennett;A. Kogut;E. Wright;J. Aymon;N. Boggess;E. Cheng;G. Amici;S. Gulkis;M. Hauser;G. Hinshaw;P. Jackson;M. Janssen;E. Kaita;T. Kelsall;P. Keegstra;C. Lineweaver;K. Löwenstein;P. Lubin;J. Mather;S. Meyer;S. Moseley;T. Murdock;L. Rokke;R. Silverberg;L. Tenorio;R. Weiss;D. Wilkinson
Results of the first year of data from the differential microwave radiometers on the Cosmic Background Explorer are presented. Statistically significant structure that is well described as scale-invariant fluctuations with a Gaussian distribution is shown. The rms sky variation, smoothed to a total 10-deg FWHM Gaussian, is 30 +/-5 micro-K for Galactic latitude greater than 20-deg data with the dipole anisotropy removed. The rms cosmic quadrupole amplitude is 13 +/-4 micro-K. The angular autocorrelation of the signal in each radiometer channel and cross-correlation between channels are consistent and give a primordial fluctuation power-law spectrum with index of 1.1 +/-0.5, and an rms-quadrupole-normalized amplitude of 16 +/-4 micro-K. These features are in accord with the Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum predicted by models of inflationary cosmology. 29 refs.