New Cosmological Structures on Medium Angular Scales Detected with the Tenerife Experiments
Abstract
We present observations at 10 and 15 GHz taken with the Tenerife experiments in a band of the sky at Dec.=+35 degrees. These experiments are sensitive to multipoles in the range l=10-30. The sensitivity per beam is 56 and 20 microK for the 10 and the 15 GHz data, respectively. After subtraction of the prediction of known radio-sources, the analysis of the data at 15 GHz at high Galactic latitude shows the presence of a signal with amplitude Delta Trms ~ 32 microK. In the case of a Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum for the primordial fluctuations, a likelihood analysis shows that this signal corresponds to a quadrupole amplitude Q_rms-ps=20.1+7.1-5.4 microK, in agreement with our previous results at Dec.+=40 degrees and with the results of the COBE DMR. There is clear evidence for the presence of individual features in the RA range 190 degrees to 250 degrees with a peak to peak amplitude of ~110 microK. A preliminary comparison between our results and COBE DMR predictions for the Tenerife experiments clearly indicates the presence of individual features common to both. The constancy in amplitude over such a large range in frequency (10-90 GHz) is strongly indicative of an intrinsic cosmological origin for these structures.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9702179,
title = {New Cosmological Structures on Medium Angular Scales Detected with the Tenerife Experiments},
author = {C. M. Gutierrez and S. Hancock and R. D. Davies and R. Rebolo and R. A. Watson and R. J. Hoyland and A. N. Lasenby and A. W. Jones},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9702179},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
ApJ Letters accepted, 13 pages Latex (uses AASTEX) and 4 encapsulated postscript figures.