• experiment at Princeton University to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Cosmic microwave background experiments Observational...
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    theories. In addition to temperature anisotropy, the CMB should have an angular variation in polarization. The polarization at each direction in the sky has...
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    compilation of experiments measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation anisotropies and polarization since the first detection of the CMB by...
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    The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), originally known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP and Explorer 80), was a NASA spacecraft operating...
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    source of the radiation. Cosmic anisotropy has also been seen in the alignment of galaxies' rotation axes and polarization angles of quasars. Physicists...
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    second cosmic microwave background satellite, following RELIKT-1, and was followed by two more advanced spacecraft: the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe...
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    Quantum Physics Plane of polarization Spin angular momentum of light Optics Depolarizer (optics) Fluorescence anisotropy Glan–Taylor prism Kerr effect...
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    Reionization (redirect from Cosmic Dawn)
    anisotropies that occur on smaller scales. While anisotropies on small scales are erased, polarization anisotropies are actually introduced because of reionization...
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    PMID 10020536. Wright, Edward L. (2004). "Theoretical Overview of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy". In Freedman, Wendy L. (ed.). Measuring and Modeling the...
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    OCLC 835115510. Wright, Edward L. (2004). "Theoretical Overview of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy". In Freedman, Wendy L. (ed.). Measuring and Modeling the...
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