Title: The cosmic microwave background: past, present and future
Abstract: The cosmic microwave background has provided an unprecedented cosmological window on the very early universe for probing the initial conditions from which structure evolved. Infinitesimal variations in temperature on the sky, first predicted in 1967 but only discovered in the 1990s, provide the fossil fluctuations that seeded the formation of the galaxies. The cosmic microwave background radiation has now been mapped with ground-based, balloon-borne and satellite telescopes. I describe its current status and future challenges.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-06-06
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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