Edward L. Wright
Published 1997-11-19Version 1
The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is the radiation left over from the hot Big Bang. Its blackbody spectrum and small anisotropy provide clues about the origin and early evolution of the Universe. In particular, the spectrum of the CMBR rules out many non-gravitational models of structure formation, and the anisotropy of the CMBR provides a measure of the gravitational potential at the time of last scattering, about 300,000 years after the Big Bang. The density inhomogeneities needed to produce the gravitational potential perturbations traced by the CMBR have grown to become the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and superclusters that we see today.
Comments: presented at the Origins Conference, Estes Park CO, May 1997. 19 pages with 7 included figures
Measurements of Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at Degree Angular Scales Near the Stars Sigma Hercules and Iota Draconis
Large-angle Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Reionization
Echoes of Gravity
