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Measured an unexplained, nearly isotropic microwave antenna-temperature excess after estimating atmospheric, instrumental and ground contributions; the letter connected it to a possible cosmological explanation in a companion paper.
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The original result is 3.5 ± 1.0 K at 4080 Mc/s, not the precision blackbody temperature measured by later missions. Penzias and Wilson’s measurement and the interpretation by Dicke, Peebles, Roll and Wilkinson are distinct contributions. WRS has not reproduced the instrument or data reduction.
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A. A. Penzias; R. W. Wilson
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Penzias and Wilson: an isotropic microwave excess
Measured an unexplained, nearly isotropic microwave antenna-temperature excess after estimating atmospheric, instrumental and ground contributions; the letter connected it to a possible cosmological explanation in a companion paper.
Scientific scope
The original result is 3.5 ± 1.0 K at 4080 Mc/s, not the precision blackbody temperature measured by later missions. Penzias and Wilson’s measurement and the interpretation by Dicke, Peebles, Roll and Wilkinson are distinct contributions. WRS has not reproduced the instrument or data reduction.
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People and systems
A. A. Penzias; R. W. Wilson
Listed source contributors; individual labor shares are not measured