タイトル | Measurements of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation at degree angular scales near the stars Sigma Herculis and Iota Draconis |
著者(英) | Lim, M.; Meinhold, P. R.; Lubin, P. M.; Gundersen, J. O.; Hristov, V. V.; Hagmann, C. A.; Clapp, A. C.; Devlin, M. J.; Lange, A. E.; Mauskopf, P. D. |
著者所属(英) | NASA |
発行日 | 1994-10-01 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | We present results from two four-frequency observations centered near the stars Sigma Herculis and Iota Draconis during the fourth flight of the Millimeter-wave Anisotropy eXperiment (MAX). The observations were made of 6 deg x 0.6 deg strips of the sky with a 1.4 deg peak to peak sinusoidal chop in all bands. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) beam sizes were calculated 0.55 deg +/- 0.05 deg at 3.5/cm and a 0.75 deg +/- 0.05 deg at 6, 9, and 14/cm. Significant correlated structures were observed at 3.5, 6, and 9/cm. The spectra of these signals are inconsistent with thermal emission from known interstellar dust populations. The extrapolated amplitudes of synchrotron and free-free emission are too small to account for the amplitude of the observed structures. If the observed structures are attributed to cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy with a Gaussian autocorrelation function and a coherence angle of 25 min, then the most probable values at Delta T/T(sub CMB) = 3.1 (sup +1.7 sub -1.3) x 10(exp -5) for the Sigma Herculis scan, and Delta T/T(sub CMB) = 3.3(sup +1.1 sub -1.1) x 10(exp -5) for the Iota Draconis scan (95% confidence upper, lower limits). |
NASA分類 | ASTRONOMY |
レポートNO | 95A72265 |
権利 | Copyright |
URI | https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/309086 |
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