| Title |
The Cosmic Microwave Background
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Living Reviews in Relativity, September 1998
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| DOI | 10.12942/lrr-1998-11 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
A. W. Jones, A. N. Lasenby |
| Abstract |
We present a brief review of current theory and observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New predictions for cosmological defect theories and an overview of the inflationary theory are discussed. Recent results from various observations of the anisotropies of the microwave background are described and a summary of the proposed experiments is presented. A new analysis technique based on Bayesian statistics that can be used to reconstruct the underlying sky fluctuations is summarised. Current CMB data is used to set some preliminary constraints on the values of fundamental cosmological parameters Ω and Ho using the maximum likelihood technique. In addition, secondary anisotropies due to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect are described. |
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|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 18 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 4 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 16% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Professor | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 11% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Unknown | 4 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy | 7 | 37% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 5% |
| Psychology | 1 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Unknown | 6 | 32% |
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