Measurement of the Far-Infrared Background Radiation in the Night Sky
- 25 October 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (17), 1154-1157
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.1154
Abstract
A rocket-borne radiometer measurement of background radiation in the spectral range from 6 to 0.08 mm has yielded a flux which corresponds to an equivalent backbody temperature of K.
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