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Galactic Background at 15 GHz

Nature Physical Science volume 237, pages 54–56 (1972)Cite this article

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WE have carried out observations of the galactic background continuum radiation with an angular resolution of 11 arc min at a frequency of 15 GHz. This frequency is higher than those of any previous observations of this type1–7. The aim of our observations, made in November 1971, was to determine the brightness of the background radiation at a very high frequency where a contribution of the thermal radiation to the total background is larger than at the lower frequencies. This enables a spectral separation of the background radiation into thermal and nonthermal components.

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  1. Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo,

    H. HIRABAYASHI

  2. Research and Development Laboratory, Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co. Ltd,

    H. YOKOI

  3. Tokyo Astronomical Observatory,

    M. MORIMOTO

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HIRABAYASHI, H., YOKOI, H. & MORIMOTO, M. Galactic Background at 15 GHz. Nature Physical Science 237, 54–56 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci237054a0

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