Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
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Location of Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
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The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) was a three-element interferometer for cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB/R) observations at 13 to 17 GHz, based at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. In 1995, it was the first instrument to measure small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background. When the more sensitive Very Small Array came online, the CAT telescope was decommissioned in a ceremonial bonfire.
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- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) online
- The first detection of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background
- Press release from 1995 describing first measurements of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background
- The CAT enclosure on Google Maps
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Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)
- Cosmic variance
- Diffusion damping
- Recombination
- Sachs–Wolfe effect
- Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect
- Thomson scattering
4-year Planck image (2018) of the CMB.
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