First results from the Very Small Array - II. Observations of the cosmic microwave background

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 341, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1066-1075

  Taylor, Angela C ^a   Carreira, Pedro ^b   Cleary, Kieran ^b   Davies, Rod D ^b   Davis, Richard J ^b   Dickinson, Clive ^b   Grainge, Keith ^a   Gutiérrez, Carlos M ^c   Hobson, Michael P ^a   Jones, Michael E ^a   Kneissl, Rüdiger ^a   Lasenby, Anthony ^a   Leahy, J P ^b   Maisinger, Klaus ^a   Pooley, Guy G ^a   Rebolo, Rafael ^c   Rubiño Martin, José Alberto ^c,d   Rusholme, Ben ^a,e   Saunders, Richard D E ^a   Savage, Richard ^a   Scott, Paul F ^a   Slosar, Anže ^a   Molina, Pedro J Sosa ^c   Titterington, David ^a   Waldram, Elizabeth ^a   Watson, Robert A ^b,c   Wilkinson, Althea ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations

Indexed keywords

RADIO ASTRONOMY; SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMAL NOISE;

ANGULAR SCALE; BACKGROUND FEATURES; BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; FULL RESOLUTION IMAGES; MULTIPOLES; NOISE LEVELS; SYNTHESISED; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0242330637     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06493.x     Document Type: Article

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