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Backgrounds and the Big Bang: Some Extracts from Their History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Virginia Trimble
Virginia Trimble*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine CA 92717, USA

Abstract

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The first astronomical background firmly established was that of cosmic rays. Photons at various wavelengths came later; and in some bands we have not year clearly peeled away all the sources to see a true background, if one even exists. All known backgrounds are astrophysically important and at least several cosmologically so. The path by which the standard hot big bang came to be generally regarded as standard is littered with the detritus of mistaken impressions, misunderstandings, and missed opportunities.

Type
Part I: Invited Reviews
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 168: Examining the Big Bang and the Diffuse Background Radiations , 1996 , pp. 9 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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