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Short‐Wavelength Distortions Seen in the Cosmic Background Radiation

AUG 01, 1988

DOI: 10.1063/1.2811522

Per H. Andersen

Recent high‐sensitivity measurements of the cosmic background radiation at submillimeter wavelengths indicate significant deviations from a blackbody spectrum. This far‐infrared excess radiation may have arisen from physical processes during the “dark ages” in the universe, between the formation of neutral atoms and the formation of galaxies.

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Volume 41, Number 8

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