- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
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The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope CAT was a three-element interferometer for cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB/R) observations at 13 to 17 GHz, based at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. In 1995, it was the first instrument to measure small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background. When the more sensitive Very Small Array came online, the CAT telescope was decommissioned in a ceremonial bonfire.
External links
- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) online
- The first detection of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background
- Press release from 1995 describing first measurements of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background
- The CAT enclosure on Google Maps
Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) Discovery of CMB radiation · List of CMB experiments · Timeline of CMB astronomy Effects Cosmic variance · Diffusion damping · Sachs–Wolfe effect · Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect · Recombination · Thomson scattering
Full-sky temperature map taken by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)Space-based
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