Present and Future of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Santander, Spain 28 June – 1 July 1993

M. Bersanelli, G. F. Smoot, M. Bensadoun (auth.), José Luis Sanz, Enrique Martínez-González, Laura Cayón (eds.)3540577556, 9783540577553, 0387577556

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

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Table of contents :
The CMB spectrum at centimeter wavelengths….Pages 1-6
Recent measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect….Pages 7-20
Clusters and the cosmic microwave background….Pages 21-27
Theoretical aspects of the CMB spectrum….Pages 28-51
Medium scale CBR anisotropy measurements: UCSB South Pole HEMT (1990–91) and MAX 3 (1991)….Pages 52-66
Results from the cosmic background explorer….Pages 67-75
The MSAM/TopHat program for measuring the CMBR anisotropy….Pages 76-90
The current status of the tenerife experiments and prospects for the future…..Pages 91-97
Making maps with the tenerife data….Pages 98-102
Anisotropy of the relic radiation in relict-1 experiment and parameters of grand unification….Pages 103-110
RELIKT1 and COBS-DMR results: A comparison….Pages 111-114
Comments on the COBE 1 DMR quadrupole estimation….Pages 115-120
Pip analysis of the Tenerife and ULISSE data….Pages 121-128
Telling adiabatic perturbations from gravitational waves and the CMB polarization….Pages 129-134
Imprints of galaxy clustering evolution on the CMB….Pages 135-138
Analysis of texture on cosmic background maps….Pages 139-145
Sakharov modulation of the spectrum of initial perturbations and its manifestation in the anisotropy of cosmic microwave background and galaxy correlation function….Pages 146-164
Constraints on models from POTENT and CMB anisotropies….Pages 165-171
Reionization and the cosmic microwave background….Pages 172-177
Possible reionization and first structures in CDM….Pages 178-180
CMB anisotropies in the reionized universe….Pages 181-187
Microwave background anisotropies: Future plans….Pages 188-207
New constraints on reionization from the Compton y-parameter….Pages 208-217
Future projects on the Cosmic Microwave Background….Pages 218-227
The COBRAS mission….Pages 228-233