Objective
A scientific and technical cooperation network on the study of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is set up under this project. The network's experimental research consists of a coordinated investigation of the spectrum and intensity fluctuations of the CMB radiation at all levels: experimental, data analysis, and theoretical interpretation. Measurements of the temperature anisotropies and spectrum of the CMB and related radiations are being carried out by several radiotelescopes installed in various EC countries. Additionally, this experimental part of the project involves the development of new technology in the fields of scientific instrumentation and engineering science. Data acquisition and analysis requires the extension of existing software packages and new software developments. In analysing the data, especial emphasis will be given to the use of new alternative satistical methods. On the theoretical side, a precise modelling of the emission from several galactic contributions will be performed in order to disentangle the galactic and cosmic radiations. The project aims to interpret new anisotropy measurements of the CMB on large angular scales in the context of standard galaxy formation models. The study of the CMB radiation spectrum is providing information on the thermal history of the intergalactic medium.
Structure in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 15 and 33 GHz has been detected. Anisotropy in the temperature of the CMB at centimetric and millimetric wavelengths of amplitude approximately 40 uk has been detected. Observations of lithium hydride lines with the IRAM telescope limit the lithium abundance at 10E-9 for redshifts Z between 4 and 40. Topological analysis of the first year data from the cosmic background explorer (COBE) resulted in a spectral index of the matter density fluctuations with power spectrum of index 0.4. Nonlinear evolution of galaxy clustering produces anisotropies in the temperature of the CMB of amplitude Delta T/T between 10E-6 and 10E-5. Gravitational waves can significantly contribute to the anisotropy of the CMB for low order multipoles; approximately 10% of polarization is also expected.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy observational astronomy gravitational waves
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry alkali metals
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy physical cosmology galaxy evolution
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Coordinator
39005 Santander
Spain
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