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Spectrum of the cosmic background radiation between 3 mm and 800 µm

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WE report the successful flight of an experiment designed to measure the spectrum of the cosmic background radiation from ∼ 3 mm to wavelengths shorter than the Planck peak for a temperature of 2.7 K. The experiment was launched, to an altitude of 40 km, on March 13, 1974, from Palestine, Texas. Because of an on-site computer fault, the complete data were not available to us until May 7, 1974. The instrument has been described previously1,2 and will be discussed in detail in a future paper; we present here the results of preliminary analysis of the flight data.

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  1. J. S. HUIZINGA

    Present address: 3M Research, Ltd, Harlow, UK

  2. J. E. BECKMAN

    Present address: ESTEC, Noordwijk, Holland

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  1. Queen Mary College, University of London, UK

    E. I. ROBSON, D. G. VICKERS, J. S. HUIZINGA, J. E. BECKMAN & P. E. CLEGG

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ROBSON, E., VICKERS, D., HUIZINGA, J. et al. Spectrum of the cosmic background radiation between 3 mm and 800 µm. Nature 251, 591–592 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251591a0

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