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Degree Scale Anisotropy: SP94 Results

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present results from 2 observations of the CMB performed from the South Pole during the 93-94 austral summer. Each observation employed a 3^{\circ} peak to peak sinusoidal, single difference chop and consisted of a 20×120^{\circ}\times 1^{\circ} strip on the sky near our SP91 observations. The first observation used a Q-band receiver which operates in 3 bands between 38 and 45 GHz with a 11^{\circ} to 1151_{\cdot}^{\circ }15 FWHM beam. The second observation overlapped the first observation and used a Ka-band receiver which operates in 4 bands between 26 and 36 GHz with a 1251_{\cdot}^{\circ}25 to 171_{\cdot}^{\circ}7 FWHM beam. Significant correlated structure is observed in all bands for each observation. The spectrum of the structure is consistent with a CMB spectrum; however, the data do not discriminate against flat or inverted spectrum point sources. The root mean square amplitude (±1σ\pm 1\sigma) of the combined (Ka+Q) data is ΔTrms=42.06.8+15.8\Delta T_{rms}=42.0_{-6.8}^{+15.8} μ\muK in a band of multipoles between =6832+38\ell=68^{+38}_{-32}. A band power estimate of the CMB power spectrum, CC_\ell, gives C(+1)2πB=1.770.54+1.58×1010\left\langle \frac{C_\ell \ell (\ell+1)}{2\pi}\right\rangle_B= 1.77_{-0.54}^{+1.58}\times 10^{-10}. The band power estimates for the seperate Ka and Q-band results are larger than but consistent with the band power estimate of the combined Ka-band SP91 results.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9412020,
  title  = {Degree Scale Anisotropy: SP94 Results},
  author = {J. Gundersen and M. Lim and J. Staren and C. Wuensche and N. Figueiredo and T. Gaier T. Koch and P. Meinhold and M. Seiffert and G. Cook and A. Segale and P. Lubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9412020},
  year   = {2007}
}

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