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Comments and Summary on the Cosmic Background Radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

George F. Smoot*
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

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This session on the cosmic background radiation is remarkable for the quality of the interesting new results presented and the controversy over substantive issues. This paper reviews the status of measurements of the spectrum and anisotropy of the cosmic background and summarizes what is known of the properties of the cosmic background radiation: its spectrum, anisotropy, polarization, and statistics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983