WMAP: It’s a Wrap!
Decadal Survey
August 13, 2010lukewarm WISE still finding NEOs
September 2, 2010
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has finished all of its observations, including 9 years of CMB data, ending with 10 days of calibration tests at larger angles between the spin axis and the Sun.
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Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
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Hi Dr. Wright: just found the Cosmic Diary blogs, fun to read. Question that I asked at a seminar about COBE a long time ago: do any of the variations in the CMB line up with the larger structures we can observe in the universe, such as galaxy super-clusters or voids? When I asked this before, the answer was “not so far”, but the data has a lot more detail now than it did then.
I look forward to seeing more updates on Infrared Astronomy, it is an exciting field to follow.