Circular scans for cosmic microwave background anisotropy observation and analysis
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Circular scans for CMB anisotropy observation and analysis
A number of experiments for measuring anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background use scanning strategies in which temperature fluctuations are measured along circular scans on the sky. It is possible, from a large number of such intersecting circular scans, to build two-dimensional sky maps for subsequent analysis. However, since instrumental effects — especially the excess lowfrequency 1/...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01646.x