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T. L. Murdock
Publications - 23
Citations - 3536
T. L. Murdock is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment & Cosmic microwave background. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications receiving 3426 citations.
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Structure in the COBE differential microwave radiometer first year maps
George F. Smoot,Charles L. Bennett,A. Kogut,Edward L. Wright,J. Aymon,N. W. Boggess,E. S. Cheng,G. De Amici,Samuel Gulkis,Michael G. Hauser,Gary Hinshaw,P. D. Jackson,Michael A. Janssen,E. Kaita,T. Kelsall,P. Keegstra,Charles H. Lineweaver,K. Loewenstein,Philip Lubin,John C. Mather,S. S. Meyer,S. H. Moseley,T. L. Murdock,L. Rokke,Robert F. Silverberg,L. Tenorio,Rainer Weiss,David T. Wilkinson +27 more
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.
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Preliminary spectral observations of the Galaxy with a 7 deg beam by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Edward L. Wright,J. C. Mather,Charles L. Bennett,E. S. Cheng,R. A. Shafer,D. J. Fixsen,R. E. Eplee,R. B. Isaacman,S. M. Read,N. W. Boggess,Samuel Gulkis,M. G. Hauser,Michael A. Janssen,T. Kelsall,Philip Lubin,S. S. Meyer,S. H. Moseley,T. L. Murdock,Robert F. Silverberg,G. F. Smoot,Rainer Weiss,David T. Wilkinson +21 more
TL;DR: The FIR absolute spectrophotometer (FIRAS) on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) has carried out the first all-sky spectral line survey in the FIR region, as well as mapping spectra of the Galactic dust distribution at below 100 microns as discussed by the authors.
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The COBE Mission: Its Design and Performance Two Years after Launch
N. W. Boggess,John C. Mather,Rainer Weiss,Charles L. Bennett,E. S. Cheng,E. Dwek,Samuel Gulkis,M. G. Hauser,Michael A. Janssen,T. Kelsall,S. S. Meyer,S. H. Moseley,T. L. Murdock,Rick Shafer,Robert F. Silverberg,George F. Smoot,David T. Wilkinson,Edward L. Wright +17 more
TL;DR: The COBE mission as mentioned in this paper is the first space mission devoted to cosmology and is described and the spacecraft concepts central to enabling the mission to achieve its scientific objectives are examined, including the major components of the COBE instrument and spacecraft modules.
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Interpretation of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation anisotropy detected by the COBE differential microwave radiometer
Edward L. Wright,S. S. Meyer,Charles L. Bennett,N. W. Boggess,Edward S. Cheng,Michael G. Hauser,Alan J. Kogut,Charles H. Lineweaver,John C. Mather,George F. Smoot,Rainer Weiss,Samuel Gulkis,Gary Hinshaw,Michael Janssen,T. Kelsall,Philip Lubin,Samuel H. Moseley,T. L. Murdock,Richard A. Shafer,Robert F. Silverberg,David T. Wilkinson +20 more
TL;DR: The large-scale cosmic background anisotropy detected by the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) instrument is compared to the sensitive previous measurements on various angular scales, and to the predictions of a wide variety of models of structure formation driven by gravitational instability as discussed by the authors.
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COBE Differential Microwave Radiometers - Instrument design and implementation
George F. Smoot,Charles L. Bennett,R. Weber,J.G. Maruschak,R.B. Ratliff,Michael A. Janssen,J. Chitwood,L. Hilliard,M.C. Lecha,R. E. Mills,R. Patschke,C. Richards,C. Backus,John C. Mather,M. G. Hauser,Rainer Weiss,David T. Wilkinson,Samuel Gulkis,N. W. Boggess,E. S. Cheng,T. Kelsall,Philip Lubin,S. S. Meyer,Harvey Moseley,T. L. Murdock,Rick Shafer,Robert F. Silverberg,Edward L. Wright +27 more
TL;DR: Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMRs) at frequencies of 31.5, 53, and 90 GHz have been designed and built to map the large angular scale variations in the brightness temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation as discussed by the authors.