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The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later

Proceedings of a Meeting on ‘The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later’, Held in L’Aquila, Italy, June 19–23, 1989

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  • © 1990

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  1. N. Mandolesi

    1. ITESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy

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  2. N. Vittorio

    1. Università dell’Aquila, Italy

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 164)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Historical Remarks

    1. The Impact of the CMB Discovery on Theoretical Cosmology

      • D. W. Sciama
      Pages 1-15

    2. Discovery of the 3 °K Radiation

      • D. T. Wilkinson, P. J. E. Peebles
      Pages 17-31

  3. Small Scale CMB Anisotropy

    1. Small Scale Anisotropy Measurements

      • C. R. Lawrence
      Pages 33-44

    2. Theoretical Maps of CMB Anisotropies

      • J. Richard Bond
      Pages 45-65

    3. Theory and Significance of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

      • Yoel Rephaeli
      Pages 67-75

    4. Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

      • M. Birkinshaw
      Pages 77-94

  4. Large and Intermediate Scale CMB Anisotropy

    1. Experimental Methods for the Investigation of the Large Scale CBR Anisotropy

      • I. A. Strukov
      Pages 95-113

    2. Medium Scale Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background at 3.3 mm

      • Philip M. Lubin, Peter R. Meinhold, Alfredo O. Chingcuanco
      Pages 115-139

  5. CMB Spectrum

    1. Observations of the CMB Spectrum

      • P. L. Richards
      Pages 141-152

    2. Theoretical implications of the CMB spectral distortions

      • L. Danese, C. Burigana, L. Toffolatti, G. De Zotti, A. Franceschini
      Pages 153-172

    3. Cosmic Instability from Radiation Pressure

      • Craig J. Hogan
      Pages 173-185

  7. Forthcoming Experiments

    1. Cosmic Background Radiation the Next 25 Years

      • George F. Smoot
      Pages 229-239

    2. Future Programs on Background Astronomy

      • Bianca Melchiorri, Francesco Melchiorri
      Pages 241-254

  8. Conclusions

    1. Concluding Remarks-Observations

      • R. B. Partridge
      Pages 255-271

    2. Concluding Remarks-Theory

      • P. J. E. Peebles
      Pages 273-277
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About this book

This book is the result of a Meeting held in L'Aquila (Italy) from the 19th to the 23rd of June 1989. The aim of the Meeting was to gather together the people actively working on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, both from an experimental and from a theoretical point of view. In view of the intensive current activity in this field, including ongoing (COBE) and forthcoming (RELIC II, ISO, AELITA, etc. ) space missions, a meeting fully dedicated to this important topic was timely. The meeting also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Microwave Background discovery made in 1964 by the Nobel Prize winners A. Penzias and R. Wilson. We greatly regret that we were not able to have them at the Meeting. There is of course another person whose absence we regret, namely R. H. Dicke, who motivated a generation of experimentalists and theoreticians to open and study this new field of research. As organizers of the Meeting, we would like to express our gratitude to the people who contributed to its success. We want to thank the members of the Scientific Organizing Committee for their assistance, suggestions and encouragement, the invited speakers for their excellent presentations, and the chairmen for their help in handling the various Sessions. We would like to thank P. Palazzi for her help in secretarial work, dr. L.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ITESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy

    N. Mandolesi

  • Università dell’Aquila, Italy

    N. Vittorio

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Meeting on ‘The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later’, Held in L’Aquila, Italy, June 19–23, 1989

  • Editors: N. Mandolesi, N. Vittorio

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0655-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0849-2Due: 31 August 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6779-9Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0655-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 308

  • Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

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