Cosmic background radiation

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88007683
- info:lc/authorities/sh88007683
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh88007683#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Background radiation, Cosmic
- Cosmic microwave background
- Cosmic microwave radiation
- Microwave background
Broader Terms
- Extraterrestrial radiation
Narrower Terms
- Cosmic ripples
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb12377900k
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/4165370-1
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Rome Meeting on Astrophysics (3rd : 1984). The cosmic background radiation and fundamental physics, c1985.
- found: Random House (Electromagnetic radiation coming out from every direction in the universe, considered the remnant of the big bang ... also called cosmic microwave background)
- found: Gloss. astron. astrophysics.
- found: INSPEC.
- found: McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. (cosmic microwave radiation, also called cosmic microwave background, microwave background)
- found: McGraw-Hill encyc. astron.
- found: Facts file dict. astron.
- notfound: LC data base, 11/29/88;INIS: Thes.;ASTI;NASA
LC Classification
- QB991.C64
Change Notes
- 1988-12-12: new

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