Investigating the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
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Several experiments (including BOOMERanG, MAXIMA, DASI, VSA, CBI) have recently detected very low contrast structures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the otherwise isotropic radiation coming from the early Universe. These structures have a contrast of the order of 25 ppm and a dominant angular size of one degree. In the current cosmological model, these structures result from acoustic oscillations of the primeval plasma within the horizon at recombination (z ∼ 1100). In the framework of the Hot Big Bang theory with the inflationary hypothesis, the statistical properties of the image of the CMB allow us to measure most of the cosmological parameters.
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