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  2. Cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia

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    The cosmic microwave background was first predicted in 1948 by Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, in a correction [16] they prepared for a paper by Alpher's PhD advisor George Gamow. [17] Alpher and Herman were able to estimate the temperature of the cosmic microwave background to be 5 K. [18]

  3. Cosmic microwave background spectral distortions - Wikipedia

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    CMB spectral distortions are tiny departures of the average cosmic microwave background (CMB) frequency spectrum from the predictions given by a perfect black body.They can be produced by a number of standard and non-standard processes occurring at the early stages of cosmic history, and therefore allow us to probe the standard picture of cosmology.

  4. Baryon acoustic oscillations - Wikipedia

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    The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is light that was scattered just before, and emitted by, recombination, now seen with our telescopes as radio waves all over the sky since it is red-shifted.

  5. Cosmic background radiation - Wikipedia

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    1938: Walther Nernst re-estimates the cosmic ray temperature as 0.75 K. [2] 1946: The term "microwave" is first used in print in an astronomical context in an article "Microwave Radiation from the Sun and Moon" by Robert Dicke and Robert Beringer. 1946: Robert Dicke predicts a microwave background radiation temperature of 20 K (ref: Helge Kragh)

  6. Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect - Wikipedia

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    The Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect (named after Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovich and often abbreviated as the SZ effect) is the spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) through inverse Compton scattering by high-energy electrons in galaxy clusters, in which the low-energy CMB photons receive an average energy boost during collision with the high-energy cluster electrons.

  7. Cosmic noise - Wikipedia

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    Cosmic noise, also known as galactic radio noise, is a physical phenomenon derived from outside of the Earth's atmosphere.It is not actually sound, and it can be detected through a radio receiver, which is an electronic device that receives radio waves and converts the information given by them to an audible form.

  8. Cosmic ray - Wikipedia

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    The following table of participial frequencies reach the planet ... or the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation energy density at ≈0.25 eV/cm 3. ...

  9. List of cosmic microwave background experiments - Wikipedia

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    A comparison of the sensitivity and resolution of WMAP with COBE and Penzias and Wilson's telescope, simulated data [1]. This list is a compilation of experiments measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation anisotropies and polarization since the first detection of the CMB by Penzias and Wilson in 1964.