Measurement of the Isotropic Background Radiation in the Far Infrared
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- 30 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 24 (13) , 742-746
Abstract
Measurements made at an altitude of 40 km with a balloon-borne radiometer that has three separate spectral responses in the spectral region below 20 indicate that the spectrum of the isotropic background radiation may not be thermal.
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