The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later Proceedings of a Mee

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 fro

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Edited by

N. MANDOLESI rrESREICNR, Bologna,ltaly

and N. VITIORIO Universita dell' Aquila,ltaly

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT I BOSTON I LONDON

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Cosmic ~icrowave background, 25 years later: proceedings of a meeting on "The Cosmic Microwave Background, 25 Years Later", held in L'Aqulla, Italy, June 19-23, 1989 I edited by N. Mandolesi, N. Vittorio. p, cm, -- (Astronomi ca 1 and space sc i ence li brary ; v. 164) Inc 1udes index, ISBN 0-7923-0849-2 (alk. paper) 1, Cos~ic background radiation--Congresses, I, Mandolesi, N. II. Vittorio, N, III. Series. OB991,C64C67 1990 523.01'875344--dc20 90-39754

ISBN-13: 978-94-010-6779-9 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-0655-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-0655-6

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THE COSMIC MICROWAVB BACKGROUND: 25 YEARS LATER

ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LffiRARY A SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF SPACE SCIENCE AND OF GENERAL GEOPHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS PUBLISHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE JOURNAL SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Editorial Board R. L. F. BOYD, University College, London, England

W. B. BURTON, Ste"ewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands C. DE JAGER, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

J. KLECZEK, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ondfejov, Czechoslavakia

Z. KOPAL, University of Manchester, England R. LOST, European Space Agency, Paris, France

L. I. SEDOV,Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow,

u.s.s.R.

Z. SvEsTKA, Laboratory for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands

PROCEEDINGS VOLUME 164

TABLE OF CONTENTS CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH FOREWORD ORGANIZING COMMITTEES SESSION CHAIRMEN OPEN DISCUSSION LEADERS LIST OF REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS LETTER TO R.H. DICKE

Vlll IX Xl XlI Xlll XV

XXlll

HISTORICAL REMARKS D.W. Sciama

THE IMPACT OF THE CMB DISCOVERY ON THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY

1

D.T. Wilkinson and P.J.E. Peebles DISCOVERY OF THE j ' K RADIATION

17

SMALL SCALE CMB ANISOTROPY C.R. Lawrence

SMALL SCALE ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS

33

J.R. Bond

THEORETICAL MAPS OF CMB ANISOTROPIES

45

vi

Y. Rephaeli

THEORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT

67

M. Birkinshaw

OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT

77

LARGE AND INTERMEDIATE SCALE