P. D. Jackson

TL;DR: In this paper, the first year of data from the differential microwave radiometers on the Cosmic Background Explorer was presented, and the angular autocorrelation of the signal in each radiometer channel and cross-correlation between channels were consistent and gave a primordial fluctuation power-law spectrum with index of 1.1 +/- 0.5, and an rms-quadrupole-normalized amplitude of 16 +/- 4 micro-K.

TL;DR: In this paper, a summary of the spatial properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation based on the full 4 years of COBE DMR observations, as detailed in a set of companion Letters, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a determination of the cosmic microwave background dipole amplitude and direction from the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) first year of data.

TL;DR: In this article, the first two years of COBE DMR observations of the CMB anisotropy are analyzed and compared with the previously published first year results, and the results are consistent, but the addition of the second year of data increases the precision and accuracy of the detected CMB temperature fluctuations.

TL;DR: The techniques available for the identification and subtraction of sources of dynamic uncertainty from data of the Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) instrument aboard COBE are discussed in this article.