Cosmic Background Radiation at $λ = 3.3$ mm

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12 April 1971

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 26 (15) , 919-922
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.26.919

Abstract

Ground based measurements of the cosmic background radiation at

λ = 3.3

mm were made at two high-altitude sites. A weighted average of the two measurements corresponds to a blackbody temperature of 2.61±0.25 K.

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