Anisotropy in the microwave sky: latest results from PYTHON

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Session 118 -- Cosmic Micorwave Background
Oral presentation, Thursday, 12, 1995, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

[118.06] Anisotropy in the microwave sky: latest results from PYTHON

J. E. Ruhl, M. Dragovan (Univ. of Chicago), S. R. Platt, R. Pernic (Yerkes Obs.), G. Novak (Northwestern), J. Kovac, B. Vinje (Princeton), J. B. Peterson (Carnegie-Mellon)

We will report results from the second season of observations with Python, a system designed to search for degree-scale anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument, which has an array of four bolometric detectors in its focal plane, is sensitive to radiation centered at $\lambda = 3.3$~mm. Significant fluctuations ($\Delta T_{RJ,rms} \sim 70\mu$K) were found in the first seasons observations at the South Pole, January 1993. The same fields were reobserved during December 1993; we will report on the correlation between these two data sets. Additionally, results from a second set of fields will be given.

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