FOREGROUNDS REMOVAL AND CMB FLUCTUATIONS IN A MULTIBAND ANISOTROPY EXPERIMENT - ARGO 1993

We present the results of a diffuse radiation survey carried out at mi llimeter and submillimeter wavelengths in the Aries and Taurus sky reg ions. A balloon-borne telescope with 0 degrees.85 FWHM resolution and four millimeterwave bands scanned 147 independent sky directions. From the multiband observations we were able to separate two independent c omponents: thermal emission from cirrus dust and cosmic microwave back ground (CMB) temperature fluctuations. A statistically significant det ection of anisotropies is found in the data of the CMB channel: Delta T-sky = (24 +/- 7) mu K rms (95% CL plus 10% calibration error). Assum ing uncorrelated Gaussian temperature fluctuations we find a band aver aged estimate of the CMB anisotropy power spectrum C-l = (20 +/- 9) mu K-2 at l similar or equal to 110. The data are consistent with anisot ropies in a ''standard'' Omega(b) = 0.05, n = 1 model normalized to th e rms anisotropy detected by COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers.