Measurement of the Far-Infrared Background Radiation in the Night Sky

A. G. Blair; J. G. Beery; F. Edeskuty; R. D. Hiebert; J. P. Shipley; K. D. Williamson, Jr

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.1154

Measurement of the Far-Infrared Background Radiation in the Night Sky

A. G. Blair, J. G. Beery, F. Edeskuty, R. D. Hiebert, J. P. Shipley, and K. D. Williamson, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 1154 – Published 25 October 1971

Abstract

A rocket-borne radiometer measurement of background radiation in the spectral range from 6 to 0.08 mm has yielded a flux which corresponds to an equivalent backbody temperature of ${3.1}_{- 2.0}^{+ 0.5}$ K.

Received 18 August 1971

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.1154

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A. G. Blair, J. G. Beery^*, F. Edeskuty, R. D. Hiebert, J. P. Shipley, and K. D. Williamson, Jr.

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544

^*Now at Physics Department, Colby Community Junior College, Colby, Kan. 67701.

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Measurement of the Far-Infrared Background Radiation in the Night Sky

A. G. Blair, J. G. Beery, F. Edeskuty, R. D. Hiebert, J. P. Shipley, and K. D. Williamson, Jr.

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