An instrument for investigation of the cosmic microwave background radiation at intermediate angular scales

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 476, Issue 2 PART I, 1997, Pages 440-457

  Wollack, E J ^a   Devlin, M J ^b   Jarosik, N ^c   Netterfield, C B ^a   Page, L ^a   Wilkinson, D ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations; Instrumentation: detectors; Space vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749193900     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303632     Document Type: Article

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