5 papers
Quantum Gravity and Astrophysics: The Microwave Background and Other Thermal Sources
Rosanne Di Stefano, L. H. Ford, Hongwei Yu +1
The problem of formulating a fully consistent quantum gravity theory (QGT) has not yet been solved. Even before we are able to work out the details of a complete theory, however, w…
Multi-Read Out Data Simulator
J. D. Offenberg, R. J. Hanisch, D. J. Fixsen +4
We present a data simulation package designed to create a series of simulated data samples for a detector with non-destructive sampling capability. The original intent of this soft…
COBE-FIRAS Observations of Galactic Lines
D. J. Fixsen, C. L. Bennett, J. C. Mather
The COBE Far InfraRed Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) observations constitute an unbiased survey over the wavelength range from 100 um to 1 cm over 99% of the sky. Improved cali…
Cosmic Ray Rejection and Image Processing Aboard The Next Generation Space Telescope
H. S. Stockman, D. Fixsen, R. Hanisch +5
The NASA Yardstick design for the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) utilizes 64 1k x 1k InSb imagers. Since multiple readouts per image are required to remove cosmic ray…
A CMBR Measurement Reproduced: A Statistical Comparison of MSAM1-94 to MSAM1-92
C. A. Inman, E. S. Cheng, D. A. Cottingham +7
The goal of the second flight of the Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM1-94) was to confirm the measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) anisotropy made i…