Bibcode
DOI
Romeo, G.; Ali, S.; Femenía, B.; Limon, M.; Piccirillo, L.; Rebolo, R.; Schaefer, R.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 548, Issue 1, pp. L1-L4.
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2001
Journal
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16
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Description
Results from the third campaign of a ground-based multiband observation
of the millimeter emission of the sky from Tenerife (Canary Islands) are
presented. The instrument consists of a 0.45 m diameter off-axis
telescope equipped with a four-band multimode 3He cooled
photometer working at 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, and 3.1 mm wavelengths. The beam is
well approximated by a Gaussian with 1.35d FWHM at all wavelengths. The
wide wavelength coverage of our instrument allows us to characterize and
reduce both the atmospheric and Galactic contamination in our data. The
cosmic microwave background radiation data is analyzed in six multipole
bands whose centers span the range l=39 to l=134 at the two longest
wavelengths (2.1 and 3.1 mm). A likelihood analysis indicates that we
have detected fluctuations in all bands at the two wavelengths. We have
evidence of a rise in the angular power spectrum from low l to high l.
Our measured spectrum is consistent with current popular theories of
large-scale structure formation, COBE, and other recent balloon-borne
experiments with similar wavelength coverage.