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Femenia, B.; Rebolo, R.; Gutierrez, C. M.; Limon, M.; Piccirillo, L.
Bibliographical reference
Astrophysical Journal v.498, p.117
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1998
Citations
26
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21
Description
We present the results of a cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy
ground-based millimetric experiment sensitive to fluctuations on angular
scales of ~2 deg. Four independent bands centered at 3.3, 2.1, 1.3, and
1.1 mm collected ~550 hr of observation during the summer of 1994. The
instrument was located on the island of Tenerife at an altitude of 2400
m. The low water vapor content and the atmospheric stability of the
site, combined with new techniques to subtract atmospheric noise, result
in the reduction of atmospheric contamination in the lowest frequency
channel to a level of ~1.5 times the instrument noise. Detailed
estimations of Galactic foreground contamination show that this
contribution is negligible at |b| >~ 12 deg. Two different multipole
bands (l=53^{+22}_{-15} and 33^{+24}_{-13}) are analyzed showing that
our technique to subtract the atmospheric contribution is more effective
in the multipole band at l=53 . A likelihood analysis of these data
reveals the presence of a common signal between the channels at 3.3,
2.1, and 1.3 mm, corresponding to band-power estimates of [l bar (l bar
+1)Cl/(2 pi )]^{1/2}=2.0^{+1.0}_{-0.8}x10^{-5} and [l bar (l
bar +1)Cl/(2 pi )]^{1/2}=4.1^{+2.4}_{-2.2}x10^{-5} for the
l=53 and 33 multipole bands, respectively. Calibration uncertainty has
been treated as a systematic effect. The level of fluctuations in the
l=53 band is in good agreement with our preliminary analysis, with
measurements by other experiments working at similar angular scales, and
with the predictions of standard cold dark matter (CDM) models.