Recent results of the Tenerife CMB experiments

Gutiérrez, C. M.; Davies, R. D.; Watson, R. A.; Rebolo, R.; Hancock, S.; Lasenby, A. N.
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Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions, vol. 10, Issue 1, pp.43-52

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1996
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We report some recent of the Tenerife experiments. On a strip at Dec = +40° we have identified structure in the microwave sky at several frequencies. Clear evidence is found for a feature centred at RA 185° with a peak amplitude of 80 K. A statistical analysis of the data at this declination reveals the presence of signal at an rms of 42 ± 9 K. Assuming a model of a Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum of fluctuations, we infer an expected quadrupole term of 25-7+9 K. The radiometers are now observing adjacent bands of the sky separated 2.5 degrees in declination; some of the preliminary results obtained in these adjacent scans are discussed.