Microwave Background Anisotropies: Proceedings of the XVIth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 16th-23rd, 1996François R. Bouchet |
Contents
THE THEORETICAL AGENDA IN CMB RESEARCH | 15 |
ULTRALOWNOISE HETEROSTRUCTURE FIELDEFFECT TRANSISTOR MILLIMETER | 23 |
THE ULTIMATE DETECTORS FOR CMB MEASUREMENTS? | 31 |
THE FAR INFRARED EXPLORER FIRE | 39 |
SATELLITE FOR MEASUREMENTS OF BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES | 49 |
OBSERVATIONAL STATUS OF CMB ANISOTROPIES | 67 |
COBEDMR 4YEAR PEFILTERED SKY MAPS | 81 |
PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF THE CMB POWER SPECTRUM | 103 |
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FUTURE PLANS FOR CMB ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS WITH THE MAXIMA AR | 149 |
BOOMERANG BALLON OBSERVATIONS OF MILLIMETRIC EXTRAGALACTIC RADI | 155 |
RESULTS FROM CAT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE VSA | 161 |
RESULTS FROM THE FIRST FLIGHT OF BAM | 167 |
IMAGING AND CALIBRATION OF THE CMB ANISOTROPIES BELOW 130 GHz | 173 |
A FIRST DETERMINATION OF THE POSITION OF THE DOPPLER PEAK | 179 |
THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION | 189 |
COLD EXPERIMENT AND CMB ANISOTROPY | 117 |
MILLIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF CMB ANISOTROPY FROM TENERIFE | 123 |
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OBSERVATION OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND STRUCTURE WITH THE TENER | 131 |
RECENT RESULTS FROM THE MEDIUMSCALE ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTTOPHAT | 137 |
THE MAX AND MAXIMA EXPERIMENTS | 143 |
COSMIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION COMBINING SUBDEGREE CMB EXPERIMENT | 197 |
THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND AND LARGESCALE STRUCTURE | 209 |
NORMALISATIONS OF COSMOLOGICAL MODELS FROM COBEDMR 4 YR DATA | 262 |
SPATIALFREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF THE COBE DATA AND THE CMB ANISOTROPY | 431 |
Common terms and phrases
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