Special Issue of CRAS
(Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences) on the CMB
The name of the journal is now
Comptes Rendus Physique.
The cosmic microwave background/
Le rayonnement fossile à 3K
It is edited by elsevier
(http://www.elsevier.fr/gb2/html/detrevue.cfm?code=HY)
Table of contents with a list of authors
Foreword
F.-X. Désert
CMB: A, B, C...W and Beyond (P!)
F. R. Bouchet
CMB: The isotropic part
F. R. Bouchet & J.-L. Puget
The Maxima Experiment: Latest Results and Consistency Tests
R. Stompor, S. Hanany, M. E. Abroe et al.
Archeops results
J.-Ch. Hamilton, A. Benoit, and the Archeops collaboration
The Planck milestone
F. R. Bouchet, M. Piat, J.-M. Lamarre
CMB Map-making and power spectrum estimation
J.-Ch. Hamilton
Cosmological Parameter extraction: methods
M. Douspis
Extragalactic foregrounds: the distant Universe
G. Lagache, N. Aghanim
Galactic emission: seeing through the Galaxy
M. Giard, G. Lagache
The CMB in the context of other cosmological measurements
A. Blanchard, J. Bartlett, M. Douspis
CMB Polarization as complementary information to anisotropies.
J. Kaplan, J. Delabrouille, P. Fosalba, C. Rosset
Polarization experiments
J. Delabrouille, J. Kaplan, M. Piat, C. Rosset
The inflationary paradigm: predictions for CMB
R. Parentani
Can the CMB reveal the topology of the universe
J.Ph. Uzan, A. Riazuelo
CMB physics: constraints on isocurvature modes
D. Langlois
Cover picture (WMAP Science
Team):
All-sky Mollweide projection of the celestial sphere as recently
observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP : Bennett et
al., ApJSuppSer, 2003, 148, 1) with the galactic center in the middle.
This map is a spectral combination such as to show vividly the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) anisotropies which typically span a third of
a degree to ninety degrees in angular scale. This map is dominated by
degree-scale fluctuations with peak to peak amplitude of only +-70 parts
in a million relative to the total 2.725 K emission of the CMB.
Projection Mollweide de toute la
sphère céleste telle que récemment observée
par WMAP (Bennett et al., ApJSuppSer, 2003, 148, 1) avec le centre
galactique au milieu. Cette carte résulte d'une combinaison
spectrale telle que les anisotropies du fond de rayonnement cosmologique
à 3K (CMB) ressortent au mieux. Ces anisotropies couvrent les
échelles angulaires du tiers de degré jusqu'à 90
degrés. La carte est dominée par les fluctuations de
l'ordre du degré, avec des amplitudes pic-pic de seulement +-70
millionièmes par rapport à l'émission totale
à 2.725 K du CMB.