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Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations

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Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

Part of the book series: ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA ((ESO))

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Several experiments have recently detected very low contrast, sub-horizon scale structures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In the current cosmological model, these structures result from acoustic oscillations of the primeval plasma at recombination (\(z \sim 1100\)). In the framework of the Hot Big Bang theory with the inflation hypothesis, the statistical properties of the image of the CMB allow us to measure most of the cosmological parameters.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’ La Sapienza, Roma, Italy

    S. Masi, P. de Bernardis, G. De Troia, M. Giacometti, A. Iacoangeli, F. Nati, F. Piacentini & G. Polenta

  2. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, CF24 3YB, Wales, UK

    P. A. R. Ade & P. D. Mauskopf

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

    J. J. Bock

  4. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada

    J. R. Bond, C. R. Contaldi, D. Pogosyan & S. Prunet

  5. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA

    J. Borrill

  6. IROE-CNR, Firenze, Italy

    A. Boscaleri & E. Pascale

  7. Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    K. Coble, T. Montroy & J. E. Ruhl

  8. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    B. P. Crill, V. V. Hristov, W. C. Jones, A. E. Lange & P. Mason

  9. Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory, University of Oxford, Keble Road, OX 3RH, Oxford, UK

    P. Ferreira & A. Melchiorri

  10. IPAC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    K. Ganga & E. Hivon

  11. Astrophysics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London

    A. H. Jaffe

  12. ENEA, Frascati, Italy

    L. Martinis & F. Scaramuzzi

  13. Seconda Universita’ di Roma, Dipartimento di Fisica, Tor Vergata, Italy

    P. Natoli

  14. Depts. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toronto, Canada

    C. B. Netterfield

  15. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Roma, Italy

    F. Pongetti & G. Romeo

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Peter A. Shaver Luigi DiLella Alvaro Giménez

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Masi, S. et al. Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations. In: Shaver, P.A., DiLella, L., Giménez, A. (eds) Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10857580_1

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