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Module: Kosmische Hintergrundstrahlung

Sequence: Start

Branching Point: The Most Ancient Radiation in the Universe

Sequence: Cosmic Background Radiation

Slide: Where Everything Started From

Slide: The Cosmological Timeline

Slide: Nucleosynthesis

Slide: Recombination Era

Slide: The Universe Becomes Transparent

Slide: How did Anisotropies Form in Early Universe?

Slide: The Origin of Galaxies and Clusters

Sequence: peebles

Slide: Nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang

Slide: Extracts from Alan Guth's The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins.

Sequence: The Tenerife Experiment

Slide: The Tenerife Experiment

Slide: Twin-Horn Microwave Receivers

Slide: Function Principle of a Twin Horn Receiver

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Slide: Tenerife Experiment: The Result

Sequence: COBE

Slide: The COBE Satellite

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Slide: COBE Instruments

Slide: The Differential Microwave Radiometer

Slide: Sky Maps from COBE

Slide: Fluctuations in the Cosmisc Background Radiation

Sequence: WMAP

Slide: The WMAP Satellite

Slide: Results of the WMAP Mission

Slide: The Microwave Sky as Seen by WMAP

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The Differential Microwave Radiometer

The channels of the main COBE instrument, the DMR were tuned to receive microwave radiation at 31.5, 53 and 90 Giga Hertz.

The DMR collected data, oribiting around the Earth at an altitude of 900 km, until 1994.

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