CMB Theory Pages

The Good Stuff

• Wayne Hu's CMB tour
• Martin White's CMB stuff
• Lloyd Knox's RADPACK CMB Analysis Package
• Max Tegmark's CMB analysis center and CMB movies
• The Seljak and Zaldarriaga code cmbfast
• Kris Gorski's HEALPIX pixelization homepage
• COSMICS at MIT
• George Smoot's group's CMB pages
• Tony Banday's CMB Resources page

Some general sites with CMB content

• An article and another
• Another article with audio sections
• The U.S. National Academy of Sciences Cosmology: A Research Briefing
• NCSA's Cosmos in a Computer
• Dave Cottingham's article
• Stan Odenwald's Cosmology Essays
• Nick Strobel's Cosmology Notes
• What is Cosmology?
• Penzias & Wilson's laser amplifier
• Eric Weisstein's entry on the CBR
• A National Landmark
• Look up CMB-related terms in the NASA thesaurus
• A History of Scientific Cosmology

COBE-related stuff

• Probably the best 4-year COBE map is figure 3 in this paper
• Other COBE maps are here, and here
• the dipole is here
• the data are here
• COBE DMR announcement in Physics News
• There's a brief summary of the mission here
• R.I.P. COBE

Books about the CMB

• Bruce Partridge's book 3K: The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
• Review of Michal Rowan-Robinson's book Ripples in the Cosmos
• Review of George Smoot and Keay Davidson's book Wrinkles in Time
• Marcus Chown's book Afterglow of Creation

Who's Who in the CMB

• Max Planck
• Arno Penzias and an interview
• Robert Wilson
• Robert Dicke
• George Gamow

The "Hat-stand" Section

• Some alternative viewpoints about the CMB: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
• Here's a song about cosmic density
• Is this the face of God? or this?
• What the ...?

What does CMB stand for?

• Cable Manufacturing Business
• Canadian Mathematics Bulletin
• Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Central Maritimes Basin
• Central Massachusetts Bandits
• Centrale Medische Bibliotheek
• Centre for Mathematical Biology (Oxford University)
• Centro de Medicina Biomolecular
• Certified Master Builder
• Chase Manhatten Bank
• Chuang-Ming Bearings & Autoparts Development Co.
• China Motor Bus (Hong Kong)
• Christian Music Bulletin
• Climate Modeling Branch (of EMC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA)
• Coalition of Minnesota Businesses
• College of Management and Business
• Colombo (airport, Sri Lanka)
• Color Me Bad (rock group)
• Compagnie Monégasque de Banque (Monte Carlo)
• Comparative Medicine Branch (of NIEHS)
• Computer Modern Bold (font)
• Configuration Management Board (Department of the Army)
• Consolidated Materials Brokers
• Consumer Medical Benefits (Financing)
• Core-Mantle Boundary
• Créacutedit Mutuel de Bretagne

• Big Dave Little and the CMB
• CMB Computers
• CMB Consulting
• CMB Design Group
• CMB Industries
• CMB Mortgage
• CMB Music Productions
• CMB Productions
• CMB Resources
• CMB Software
• CMB Systems
• CMB Teamrol

• Some other astronomical acronyms
  
  

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  Douglas Scott
  dscott@astro.ubc.ca
  Last revised: 28th July 2000