Max Tegmark
Published 1995-02-06Version 1
A new method for estimating the power spectrum $C_l$ from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps was recently presented by the author and applied to the 2 year COBE data. It was found that the spectral resolution $\Delta l$ for COBE could be more than doubled at $l=15$, thereby revealing previously unresolved features in the power spectrum. Whereas that paper was rather technical, the present paper shows that all qualitative features of this method can be understood from a simple analogy with quantum mechanics.
Comments: 4 pages, incl one figure. Postscript. For proceedings of 17th Texas Symposium. Latest version at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~max/texas.html or from max@mppmu.mpg.de
Journal: Annals N.Y.Acad.Sci.759:684-687,1995
Reconstructing Projected Matter Density from Cosmic Microwave Background
Testing the effect of geodesic mixing with COBE data to Reveal the Curvature of the Universe
Constraints on the topology of the universe from the 2-yr COBE data
