The CMB spectrum: Perspective of observing spectral distortions

✍ Scribed by Giorgio Sironi; Giuliano Boella; Massimo Gervasi; Andrea Tartari; Mario Zannoni

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 200 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1387-6473
• DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2006.11.042

✦ Synopsis

Spectral distortions (deviations from a Planck distribution) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are potential sources of information on the thermal history of the Universe. So far however they escaped detection. We suggest a different observational approach useful to discover Bose-Einstein distortions.