Posted on 09/14/2001 2:23:44 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
Launched successfully and should reach L2 and start data collecting at the end of the month. It'll take nine months to get a complete full sky survey. MAP will be real good for temperature sensitivity, but only mediocre when compared to Maxima and Boomerang for angular resolution.
That's my favorite pick-up line ;-)
Excellent.
Thanx.
We're counting on folks such as yourself, "RadioAstronomer," and "Physicist" to explain the details of things like Inflationary Cosmology to the "man in the street" who wanders into these threads from time to time. I'll field the simpler question or two from time to time, but I leave the "heavy lifting" to you guys.
We're are just glad that folks like you drop in occasionally; it is a tremendous resource the FR readers to have you guys around.
You're most welcome. I wasn't sure if my response would answer your questions, or just create a whole new set of questions. I defer to the really knowledgeable guys like "Physicist," "RadioAstronomer," and "ThinkPlease" on the really deep, detailed, or complex issues.
That said, I hope you were paying close attention; there'll be a pop-quiz next period!
I'll try to dig up the paper itself; I'm sure it will say what the chi-squared actually is.
I base my estimate on the expectation that, if the errors are correctly estimated, somewhat more than a third of the data points will be more than one sigma away from the curve. In the above plot, only three or four data points are so aberrant out of 20.
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