Es. Cheng et al., MSAM1-94 - REPEATED MEASUREMENT OF MEDIUM-SCALE ANISOTROPY IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND-RADIATION, The Astrophysical journal, 456(2), 1996, pp. 71-74
The second flight of the Medium-Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM1-94
) observed the same field as the first flight (MSAM1-92) to confirm ou
r earlier measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)
anisotropy. This instrument chops a 30' beam in a three-position patte
rn with a throw of +/-40' and simultaneously measures single- and doub
le-differenced sky signals. We observe in four spectral channels cente
red at 5.6, 9.0, 16.5, and 22.5 cm(-1),providing sensitivity to the pe
ak of the CMBR and to thermal emission from interstellar dust. The dus
t component correlates well with the IRAS 100 mu m map. The CMBR obser
vations in our double-difference channel correlate well with the earli
er observations, but the single-difference channel shows some discrepa
ncies. We obtain a detection of fluctuations in the MSAM1-94 data set
that match CMBR in our spectral bands of Delta T/T = 1.9(-0.7)(+1.3) x
10(-5) (90% confidence interval, including calibration uncertainty) f
or total rms Gaussian fluctuations with correlation angle 0.degrees 3,
using the double-difference demodulation.