Sentences with phrase «cosmic microwave background experiments»
Cosmic microwave background experiments peg the number at 67 km / s per megaparsec.
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It was theory decades ago, but has since been proven, in part by the existence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but also by astronomical observations and by particle accelerator experiments.
The BICEP2 experiment used 512 detectors, which sped up observations of the cosmic microwave background by 10 times over the team's previous measurements.
Instead, the report is expected to suggest that astronomers be given a larger voice in advising NSF's mathematics and physical sciences directorate and that NSF and NASA work more closely together — as they did successfully in BOOMERANG, a balloon experiment to study the cosmic microwave background (ScienceNOW, 30 April).
Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years — a «standard ruler» for measuring expansion.
THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: Clem, you work on an experiment that looks for evidence of inflation in the cosmic microwave background.
The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a NASA - funded balloon - borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
As recent experiments such as the hugely successful WMAP satellite have demonstrated, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a clean laboratory for studying the physics of the early Universe.