Present and Future of the Cosmic Microwave Background : Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Santander, Spain, 28 June – 1 July 1993 / edited by Jose L. Sanz, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Laura Cayon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanz, José L., Editor.

Martinez-Gonzalez, Enrique., Editor.

Cayon, Laura., Editor.

Series:

Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 429

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space sciences.

Geophysics.

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

Geophysics/Geodesy.

Local Subjects:

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

Geophysics/Geodesy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 236 p. 9 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1994.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1994.

Summary:

These review articles by outstanding specialists cover the present status of the observations of the spectrum and of the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Experimental developments, data analysis and related theoretical aspects are also treated. The idea is to review and discuss at a level accessible to non-specialized astronomers and graduate students the most recent developments in this field as well as the future perspectives for astrophysics and cosmology in particular.

Contents:

The CMB spectrum at centimeter wavelengths

Recent measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Clusters and the cosmic microwave background

Theoretical aspects of the CMB spectrum

Medium scale CBR anisotropy measurements: UCSB South Pole HEMT (1990–91) and MAX 3 (1991)

Results from the cosmic background explorer

The MSAM/TopHat program for measuring the CMBR anisotropy

The current status of the tenerife experiments and prospects for the future.

Making maps with the tenerife data

Anisotropy of the relic radiation in relict-1 experiment and parameters of grand unification

RELIKT1 and COBS-DMR results: A comparison

Comments on the COBE 1 DMR quadrupole estimation

Pip analysis of the Tenerife and ULISSE data

Telling adiabatic perturbations from gravitational waves and the CMB polarization

Imprints of galaxy clustering evolution on the CMB

Analysis of texture on cosmic background maps

Sakharov modulation of the spectrum of initial perturbations and its manifestation in the anisotropy of cosmic microwave background and galaxy correlation function

Constraints on models from POTENT and CMB anisotropies

Reionization and the cosmic microwave background

Possible reionization and first structures in CDM

CMB anisotropies in the reionized universe

Microwave background anisotropies: Future plans

New constraints on reionization from the Compton y-parameter

Future projects on the Cosmic Microwave Background

The COBRAS mission.

ISBN:

3-540-48328-4