Published 1988
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Anisotropy of the cosmic background radiation
Description
The characteristics of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) are reviewed, focusing on intrinsic anisotropies caused by primordial matter fluctuations. The basic elements of the CBR are outlined and the contributions to anisotropy at different angular scales are discussed. Possible fluctuation spectra that can generate the observed large-scale structure of the universe through gravitational instability and nonlinear evolution are examined and compared with observational searches for cosmic microwave anisotropies. 21 refs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
- Imprint Place
- San Francisco, CA (USA)
- Imprint Title
- The Minnesota lectures on clusters of galaxies and large-scale structure
- Imprint Pagination
- 256 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 231-244.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21085351
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANISOTROPY; COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; RELICT RADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MATTER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIONS