Bibliography of COBE Reprints and Preprints

Publications by members of the COBE team are listed below. Links are provided to abstracts or electronic versions of the papers when they are available from the ADS Abstract Service, the American Astronomical Society, or the preprint service at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The articles are listed in chronological order according to their respective COBE Preprint Numbers.

Hardcopy versions of the COBE preprints may be requested by contacting

Preprint No. 90-01
Astrophysical Journal, 354, L37 (1990)
A PRELIMINARY MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND SPECTRUM BY THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE) SATELLITE
J.C. Mather, E.S. Cheng, R.E. Eplee, Jr., R.B. Isaacman, S.S. Meyer, R.A. Shafer, R. Weiss, E.L. Wright, C.L. Bennett, N. Boggess, E. Dwek, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, M. Janssen, T. Kelsall, P.M. Lubin, S.H. Moseley, Jr., T.L. Murdock, R.F. Silverberg, G.F. Smoot, and D.T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 90-02
Astrophysical Journal, 360, 685 (1990)
COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: INSTRUMENT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
G. Smoot, C. Bennett, R. Weber, J. Maruschak, R. Ratliff, M. Janssen, J. Chitwood, L. Hilliard, M. Lecha, R. Mills, R. Patschke, C. Richards, C. Backus, J. Mather, M. Hauser, R. Weiss, D. Wilkinson, S. Gulkis, N. Boggess, E. Cheng, T. Kelsall, P. Lubin, S. Meyer, H. Moseley, T. Murdock, R. Shafer, R. Silverberg, and E. Wright

Preprint No. 90-03
Advances Space Research, 11, 181 (1991)
EARLY RESULTS FROM THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE)
J.C. Mather, M.G. Hauser, C.L. Bennett, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, R.E. Eplee, Jr., H.T. Freudenreich, R.B. Isaacman, T. Kelsall, C.M. Lisse, S.H. Moseley, Jr., R.A. Shafer, R.F. Silverberg, W.J. Spiesman, G.N. Toller, J.L. Weiland, S. Gulkis, M. Janssen, P.M. Lubin, S.S. Meyer, R. Weiss, T.L. Murdock, G.F. Smoot, D.T. Wilkinson and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 90-04
Advances Space Research, 11, 193 (1991)
FIRST RESULTS OF THE COBE SATELLITE MEASUREMENT OF THE ANISOTROPY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION
J.C. Mather, M.G. Hauser, C.L. Bennett, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, R.E. Eplee, Jr., H.T. Freudenreich, R.B. Isaacman, T. Kelsall, C.M. Lisse, S.H. Moseley, Jr., R.A. Shafer, R.F. Silverberg, W.J. Spiesman, G.N. Toller, J.L. Weiland, S. Gulkis, M. Janssen, P.M. Lubin, S.S. Meyer, R. Weiss, T.L. Murdock, G.F. Smoot D.T. Wilkinson and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 90-05
in After the First Three Minutes, Proceedings of the 1st Astrophysics Workshop, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, October 15-17, 1990, S.S. Holt, C.L. Bennett & V. Trimble, eds., AIP Conf. Proc., 222, 43 (1991)
EARLY RESULTS FROM THE FAR INFRARED ABSOLUTE SPECTROPHOTOMETER (FIRAS)
J.C. Mather, E.S. Cheng, R.A. Shafer, R.E. Eplee, R.B. Isaacman, D.J. Fixsen, S.M. Read, S.S. Meyer, R. Weiss and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 90-06
in After the First Three Minutes, Proceedings of the 1st Astrophysics Workshop, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, October 15-17, 1990, S.S. Holt, C.L. Bennett & V. Trimble, eds., AIP Conf. Proc., 222, 161 (1991)
THE DIFFUSE INFRARED BACKGROUND: COBE AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, Jr., R.F. Silverberg, T. Murdock, G. Toller, W. Spiesman, and J. Weiland

Preprint No. 90-07
Astrophysical Journal, 371, L1 (1991)
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: LARGE-ANGULAR-SCALE ISOTROPY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
G.F. Smoot, C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, J. Aymon, C. Backus, G. De Amici, K. Galuk, P.D. Jackson, P. Keegstra, L. Rokke, L. Tenorio, S. Torres, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, M.A. Janssen, J.C. Mather, R. Weiss, D.T. Wilkinson, E.L. Wright, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, T. Kelsall, P. Lubin, S. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, R.A. Shafer, and R.F. Silverberg

Preprint No. 90-08
Text of paper presented at the Texas-ESO-CERN Symposium, 18 December 1990
COBE
E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 90-09
in After the First Three Minutes, Proceedings of the 1st Astrophysics Workshop, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, October 15-17, 1990, S.S. Holt, C.L. Bennett & V. Trimble, eds., AIP Conf. Proc., 222, 95 (1991)
PRELIMINARY DMR MEASUREMENTS OF THE CMB ISOTROPY
G.F. Smoot, C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, J. Aymon, C. Backus, G. De Amici, K. Galuk, P.D. Jackson, P. Keegstra, L. Rokke, L. Tenorio,S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, M. Janssen, J.C. Mather, R. Weiss, D.T. Wilkinson, E.L. Wright, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, T. Kelsall, P. Lubin, S. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, R.A. Shafer and R.F. Silverberg

Preprint No. 90-10
Astrophysical Journal, 381, 200 (1991)
PRELIMINARY SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALAXY WITH A 7 DEGREE BEAM BY THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE)
E.L. Wright, J.C. Mather, C.L. Bennett, E.S. Cheng, R.A. Shafer, D.J. Fixsen, R.E. Eplee,Jr., R.B. Isaacman, S.M. Read, N.W. Boggess, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, M. Janssen, T. Kelsall, P.M. Lubin, S.S. Meyer, S.H. Moseley,Jr., T.L. Murdock, R.F. Silverberg, G.F. Smoot, R. Weiss, and D.T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 91-02
in The Infrared and Submillimetre Sky After COBE, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 20-30, 1991, p. 1
AN OVERVIEW OF THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE) AND ITS OBSERVATIONS: NEW SKY MAPS OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
G.F. Smoot

Preprint No. 91-03
in The Infrared and Submillimetre Sky After COBE, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 20-30, 1991, p. 331
COBE DMR RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS
G.F. Smoot

Preprint No. 91-04
in The Infrared and Submillimetre Sky After COBE, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 20-30, 1991, p. 231
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE FIRAS AND DIRBE EXPERIMENTS ON COBE
E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 91-05
in The Infrared and Submillimetre Sky After COBE, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 20-30, 1991, p. 391
MAPPING THE SKY WITH THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
M.A. Janssen and S. Gulkis

Preprint No. 91-06
in The Infrared and Submillimetre Sky After COBE, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 20-30, 1991
RESULTS OF THE COBE MISSION
M.G. Hauser

Preprint No. 91-07
in IAU XXI Highlights of Astronomy, vol. 9, J. Bergeron, ed.

• OBSERVATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY, pp. 281-286
  G. Smoot
  
• OBSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND SPECTRUM, pp. 275-280
  J.C. Mather
  
• THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE): THE MISSION AND SCIENCE OVERVIEW, pp. 273-274
  N.W. Boggess
  
• THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND, pp. 291-296
  M.G. Hauser
  
• RECENT RESULTS FROM THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER, pp. 335-336
  C.L. Bennett
  

Preprint No. 91-08
in Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, NOAO, Tucson, AZ, November 7-9, 1991

• COBE - THE SOFTWARE
  E. Cheng
  
• COBE DMR DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES
  P. Jackson et al.
  
• DAILY QUALITY ASSURANCE SOFTWARE FOR A SATELLITE RADIOMETER SYSTEM
  P. Keegstra et al.
  
• FIRAS PROJECT PIPELINE SOFTWARE SYSTEM
  S. Read et al.
  
• DIRBE PROJECT PIPELINE SOFTWARE SYSTEM
  J.A. Skard et al.
  
• DETECTION OF GLITCHES AND POINT SOURCES
  H. Freudenreich et al.
  
• COBE/DIRBE SKY MAP TRENDING
  I. Freedman et al.
  
• COBE ASTRONOMICAL DATA BASES
  I. Freedman et al.
  
• PATTERN MATCHING IN COBE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
  R. Isaacman et al.
  
• DISPLAY AND MANIPULATION OF COBE/DIRBE ALL-SKY DATA
  G.N. Toller et al.
  
• SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE) PROJECT
  A.C. Raugh et al.
  
• SOME NOISE CHARACTERISTICS OF DIRBE PHOTOMETRY
  K.J. Mitchell et al.
  
• ANALYSIS OF COBE FIRAS SKY SPECTRA VIA IDL
  R.E. Eplee, Jr. et al.
  

Preprint No. 92-01
Astrophysical Journal, 391, 466 (1992)
COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS (DMR): CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES
C.L. Bennett, G.F. Smoot, M. Janssen, S. Gulkis, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, C. Backus, M.G. Hauser, J.C. Mather, L. Rokke, L. Tenorio, R. Weiss, D.T. Wilkinson, E.L. Wright, G. DeAmici, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, P.D. Jackson, P. Keegstra, T. Kelsall, R. Kummerer, C. Lineweaver, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, J. Santana, R.A. Shafer, R.F. Silverberg

Preprint No. 92-02
Astrophysical Journal, 397, 420 (1992)
THE COBE MISSION: ITS DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE TWO YEARS AFTER LAUNCH
N.W. Boggess, J.C. Mather, R. Weiss, C.L. Bennett, E.S. Cheng, E. Dwek, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, M.A. Janssen, T. Kelsall, S.S. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, R.A. Shafer, R.F. Silverberg, G.F. Smoot, D.T. Wilkinson, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 92-03
Astrophysical Journal, 401, 1 (1992)
COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIC ERROR ANALYSIS
A. Kogut, G.F. Smoot, C.L.Bennett, E.L. Wright, J. Aymon, G. De Amici, G. Hinshaw, P.D. Jackson, E. Kaita, P. Keegstra, C. Lineweaver, K. Loewenstein, L. Rokke, L. Tenorio, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, M.A. Janssen, T. Kelsall, J.C. Mather, S.S.Meyer, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, R.A. Shafer, R.F. Silverberg, R. Weiss, and D.T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 92-04
Astrophysical Journal, 396, L1 (1992)
STRUCTURE IN THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER FIRST-YEAR MAPS
G.F. Smoot, C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, E.L. Wright, J. Aymon, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, G. De Amici, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, G. Hinshaw, C. Lineweaver, K. Loewenstein, P.D. Jackson, M. Janssen, E. Kaita, T. Kelsall, P. Keegstra, P. Lubin, J.C. Mather, S.S. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, L. Rokke, R.F. Silverberg, L. Tenorio, R. Weiss, and D.T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 92-05
Astrophysical Journal, 396, L7 (1992)
PRELIMINARY SEPARATION OF GALACTIC AND COSMIC MIROWAVE EMISSION FOR THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER
C.L. Bennett, G.F. Smoot, G. Hinshaw, E.L. Wright, A. Kogut, G. De Amici S.S. Meyer, R. Weiss, D.T. Wilkinson, S. Gulkis, M. Janssen, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, J.C. Mather, S.H. Moseley, Jr., T.L. Murdock, and R.F. Silverberg

Preprint No. 92-06
Astrophysical Journal, 396, L13 (1992)
INTERPRETATION OF THE CMB ANISOTROPY DETECTED BY THE COBE DMR
E.L. Wright, S.S. Meyer, C.L. Bennett, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, M.G. Hauser, A. Kogut, C. Lineweaver, J.C. Mather, G.F. Smoot, R. Weiss, S. Gulkis, G. Hinshaw, M. Janssen, T. Kelsall, P.M. Lubin, S. H. Moseley, Jr., T.L. Murdock, R.A. Shafer, R.F. Silverberg, and D.T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 92-07
Advances Space Research, 13, 409 (1993)
SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM COBE
C.L. Bennett, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, J.C. Mather, S.H. Moseley, Jr., T.L. Murdock, R.A. Shafer, R.A. Silverberg, G.F. Smoot, R. Weiss, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 92-08
in The Evolution of Galaxies and their Environment, Proceedings of the Third Teton Summer School, Grand Tetons National Park, WY, July 5-10 1992, H.A. Thronson & J.M. Shull, eds.
RECENT RESULTS FROM COBE
C.L.Bennett, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, M.G. Hauser, J.C. Mather, G.F. Smoot and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 92-09
in Proceedings of the Second Conference on Astronomy with Large Data Bases, Haguenau, France, 14-16 September 1992
SCIENTIFIC RESULTS AND THE USE OF ASTRONOMICAL DATA BASES IN THE COBE PROJECT
R. Isaacman

Preprint No. 92-10
in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Observational Cosmology, Milan, Italy, September 1992
FAR-INFRARED COSMOLOGY MEASUREMENTS - THE FIRAS SPECTRUM AND OTHER CURIOUS RESULTS
E.S. Cheng

Preprint No. 92-11
in Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems II Conference, Boston, MA, November 2-4, 1992
AN IDL-BASED ANALYSIS PACKAGE FOR COBE AND OTHER SKYCUBE-FORMATTED ASTRONOMICAL DATA
J.A. Ewing, R. Isaacman, J.M. Gales, S. Chintala, P. Kryszak-Servin, and K.G. Galuk

Preprint No. 92-12
in Back to the Galaxy, Proceedings of the 3rd Astrophysics Workshop, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, October 12-14, 1992, S.S. Holt & F. Verter, eds.

• COBE/DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF INFRARED EMISSION FROM STARS AND DUST
  M.G. Hauser
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 201 (1993)
  
• COLD DUST IN THE ISM?
  E. L. Wright
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 193 (1993)
  
• COOLING OF THE INTERSTELLAR GAS: RESULTS FROM COBE
  C. L. Bennett & G. Hinshaw
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 257 (1993)
  
• POLARIMETRY WITH THE DIFFUSE INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT ABOARD COBE
  G. B. Berriman, M. G. Hauser, N. W. Boggess, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, R. F. Silverberg and T. L. Murdock
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 214 (1993)
  
• DIRBE EVIDENCE FOR A WARP IN THE GALAXY
  H. T. Freudenreich, T. J. Sodroski, G. B. Berriman, E. Dwek, B. A. Franz, M. G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, N. P. Odegard, R. F. Silverberg, G. N. Toller, and J. L. Weiland
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 485 (1993)
  
• DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF GALACTIC STELLAR POPULATIONS AND EXTINCTION
  R. G. Arendt, M. G. Hauser, N. Boggess, E. Dwek, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, T. L. Murdock, R. F. Silverberg, G. B. Berriman, J. L. Weiland, N. Odegard, and T. J. Sodroski
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 222 (1993)
  
• DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALACTIC BULGE
  J. L. Weiland, M. G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, E. Dwek, S. H. Moseley, R. F. Silverberg, M. Mitra, N. P. Odegard, W. J. Spiesman, T. J. Sodroski, S. W. Stemwedel, H. T. Freudenreich and C. M. Lisse
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 137 (1993)
  
• LARGE-SCALE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM FROM DIRBE OBSERVATIONS
  T. J. Sodroski, M. G. Hauser, E. Dwek, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, R. F. Silverberg, N. Boggess, N. Odegard, J. L. Weiland, and B. Franz
  AIP Conf. Proc., 278, 218 (1993)
  

Preprint No. 92-13
in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Observational Cosmology, Milan, Italy, September 1992
COBE DMR RESULTS: COSMIC BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES
G.F. Smoot

Preprint No. 92-14
in proceedings of a symposium on Surveys in Astronomy, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, September 16-18, 1992

• COSMOLOGY FROM COBE
  M.G. Hauser
  
• THE COBE VIEW OF THE GALAXY
  E.L. Wright
  

Preprint No 92-15
in proceedings of the Texas PASCOS meeting, Berkeley, CA, December 13-18, 1992
POWER SPECTRUM OF THE COBE DMR MAPS
E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 93-01
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 439 (1994)
MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND SPECTRUM BY THE COBE FIRAS
J. C. Mather, E. S. Cheng, D. A. Cottingham, R. E. Eplee, Jr., D. J. Fixsen, T. Hewagama, R. B. Isaacman, K. A. Jensen, S. S. Meyer, P. D. Noerdlinger, S. M. Read, L. P. Rosen, R. A. Shafer, E. L. Wright, C. L. Bennett, N. W. Boggess, M. G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, Jr., R. F. Silverberg, G. F. Smoot, R. Weiss, and D. T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 93-02
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 445 (1994)
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND DIPOLE SPECTRUM MEASURED BY THE COBE FIRAS
D. J. Fixsen, E. S. Cheng, D. A. Cottingham, R.E. Eplee, Jr., R. B Isaacman, J. C. Mather, S. S. Meyer, P. D. Noerdlinger, R. A. Shafer, R. Weiss, E. L. Wright, C. L. Bennett, N. W. Boggess, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, R. F. Silverberg, G. F. Smoot, and D. T. Wilkinson

Preprint No. 93-03
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 450 (1994)
INTERPRETATION OF THE COBE FIRAS SPECTRUM
E. L. Wright, J. C. Mather, D. J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, R. A. Shafer, C. L. Bennett, N. W. Boggess, E. S. Cheng, R. F. Silverberg, G. F. Smoot and R. Weiss

Preprint No. 93-04
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 457 (1994)
CALIBRATION OF THE FAR INFRARED ABSOLUTE SPECTROPHOTOMETER (FIRAS) ON THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE)
D. J. Fixsen, E. S. Cheng, D. A. Cottingham, R. E. Eplee, Jr., T. Hewagama, R. B. Isaacman, K. A. Jensen, J. C. Mather, D. L. Massa, S. S. Meyer, P. D. Noerdlinger, S. M. Read, L. P. Rosen, R. A. Shafer, A. R. Trenholme, R. Weiss, C. L. Bennett, N. W. Boggess, D. T. Wilkinson and E. L. Wright

Preprint No. 93-05
in proceedings of the conference on Unified Symmetry in the Small and in the Large, Miami, Florida, January 25-27, 1993
SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM COBE
J. C. Mather, M. G. Hauser, C. L. Bennett, N. W. Boggess, E. S. Cheng, T. Kelsall, S. H. Moseley, Jr., T. L. Murdock, R. A. Shafer, R. F. Silverberg, G. F. Smoot, R. Weiss, and E. L. Wright

Preprint No. 93-06
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 1 (1994)
COMMENTS ON THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF EXCESS VARIANCE IN THE COBE DMR MAPS
E. L. Wright, G. F. Smoot, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, L. Tenorio, C. Lineweaver, C. L. Bennett, and P. M. Lubin

Preprint No. 93-07
Astrophysical Journal, 419, 1 (1993)
DIPOLE ANISOTROPY IN THE COBE-DMR FIRST-YEAR SKY MAPS
A. Kogut, C. Lineweaver, G. F. Smoot, C. L. Bennett, A. Banday, N. W. Boggess, E. S. Cheng, G. De Amici, D. J. Fixsen, G. Hinshaw, P. D. Jackson, M. Janssen, P. Keegstra, K. Loewenstein, P. Lubin, J. C. Mather, L. Tenorio, R. Weiss, D. T. Wilkinson, and E. L. Wright

Preprint No. 93-08
Astrophysical Journal, 414, L77 (1993)
NON-COSMOLOGICAL SIGNAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COBE DMR ANISOTROPY MAPS
C. L. Bennett, G. Hinshaw, A. Banday, A. Kogut, E. L. Wright, K. Loewenstein, and E. S. Cheng

Preprint No. 93-09
in The Cold Universe, Proceedings of the XIIIth Moriond Astrophysics meeting, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 13-20, 1993
COBE VIEWS THE COLD UNIVERSE
C. L. Bennett

Preprint No. 93-10
Papers delivered at the SPIE Conference on Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing, San Diego, CA, July 11-16, 1993

• THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER (COBE) MISSION
  J.C. Mather
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 146 (1993)
• THE COBE EXPERIENCE
  E.L. Wright
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 158 (1993)
• DESIGN AND RESULTS OF DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS (DMR) ON COBE
  M.A. Janssen, S. Gulkis, C.L. Bennett, and A.J. Kogut
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 211 (1993)
• DESIGN FOR THE COBE FAR INFRARED ABSOLUTE SPECTROPHOTOMETER (FIRAS)
  J.C. Mather, D.J. Fixsen and R.A. Shafer
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 168 (1993)
• DESIGN OF THE DIFFUSE INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT (DIRBE) ON COBE
  R.F. Silverberg, M.G. Hauser, N.W. Boggess, T.J. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, and T.L. Murdock
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 180 (1993)
• INVESTIGATION OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT FROM 1 TO 240um USING COBE DIRBE DATA
  T. Kelsall, M.G. Hauser, G.B. Berriman, N.W. Boggess, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, R.F. Silverberg, W.J. Spiesman and J.L. Weiland
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 190 (1993)
• OBSERVATIONS OF THE LARGE-SCALE INFRARED EMISSION FROM THE GALACTIC PLANE REGION BY THE DIFFUSE INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT
  T J. Sodroski, R.G. Arendt, M.G. Hauser, N. Boggess, E. Dwek, T. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, R.F. Silverberg, G.B. Berriman, B.A. Franz, H.T. Freudenreich, C.M. Lisse, M. Mitra, N.P. Odegard, W.J. Spiesman, S.W. Stemwedel, G.N. Toller and J.L. Weiland
  SPIE Conf. Proc., 2019, 202 (1993)

Preprint No. 93-11
Astrophysical Journal, 434, 587 (1994)
MORPHOLOGY OF THE INTERSTELLAR COOLING LINES DETECTED BY COBE
C.L. Bennett, D.J. Fixsen, G. Hinshaw, J.C. Mather, S.H. Moseley, E.L. Wright, R.E. Eplee, Jr., J. Gales, T. Hewagama, R.B. Isaacman, R.A. Shafer, and K. Turpie

Preprint No. 93-12
Astrophysical Journal, 431, 1 (1994)
LIMITS ON THREE-POINT CORRELATIONS IN THE COBE DMR FIRST YEAR ANISOTROPY MAPS
G. Hinshaw, A. Kogut, K.M. Gorski, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, C. Lineweaver, P. Lubin, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 93-13
Astrophysical Journal, 428, 638 (1994)
LARGE-SCALE CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERSTELLAR DUST FROM COBE DIRBE OBSERVATIONS
T.J. Sodroski, C. Bennett, N. Boggess, E. Dwek, B. Franz, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, N. Odegard, R.F. Silverberg, and J.L. Weiland

Preprint No. 94-01
Astrophysical Journal, 436, 423 (1994)
COSMIC TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS FROM TWO YEARS OF COBE DMR OBSERVATIONS
C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, E.L. Wright, K. Gorski, D.T. Wilkinson, R. Weiss, G.F. Smoot, S.S. Meyer, J.C. Mather, P. Lubin, K. Loewenstein, C. Lineweaver, P. Keegstra, E. Kaita, P.D. Jackson, and E.S. Cheng

Preprint No. 94-02
Astrophysical Journal, 436, 443 (1994)
ANGULAR POWER SPECTRUM OF THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY SEEN BY THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER
E.L. Wright, G.F. Smoot, C.L. Bennett, and P.M. Lubin

Preprint No. 94-03
Astrophysical Journal, 437, 1 (1994)
STATISTICS AND TOPOLOGY OF THE COBE DMR FIRST YEAR SKY MAPS
G.F. Smoot, L. Tenorio, A.J. Banday, A. Kogut, E.L. Wright, G. Hinshaw, and C.L. Bennett

Preprint No. 94-04
Astrophysical Journal, 425, L85 (1994)
COBE DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF GALACTIC REDDENING AND STELLAR POPULATIONS
R.G. Arendt, G.B. Berriman, N. Boggess, E. Dwek, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, T.L. Murdock, N. Odegard, R.F. Silverberg, T.J. Sodroski, and J.L. Weiland

Preprint No. 94-05
Astrophysical Journal, 425, L81 (1994)
COBE DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALACTIC BULGE
J.L. Weiland, R.G. Arendt, G.B. Berriman, E. Dwek, H.T. Freudenreich, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, C.M. Lisse, M. Mitra, S.H. Moseley, N.P. Odegard, R.F. Silverberg, T.J. Sodroski, W.J. Spiesman, and S.W. Stemwedel

Preprint No. 94-06
Astrophysical Journal, 433, 435 (1994)
SEARCH FOR UNRESOLVED SOURCES IN THE COBE-DMR TWO-YEAR SKY MAPS
A. Kogut, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, G. Hinshaw, K. Loewenstein, P. Lubin, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 94-07
Astrophysical Journal, 430, L85 (1994)
ON DETERMINING THE SPECTRUM OF PRIMORDIAL INHOMOGENEITY FROM THE COBE DMR SKY MAPS I. METHOD
K.M. Gorski

Preprint No. 94-08
Astrophysical Journal, 430, L89 (1994)
ON DETERMINING THE SPECTRUM OF PRIMORDIAL INHOMOGENEITY FROM THE COBE DMR SKY MAPS: II. RESULTS AND TWO-YEAR DATA ANALYSIS
K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, E.L. Wright, A. Kogut, G.F. Smoot, and P. Lubin

Preprint No. 94-09
Astrophysical Journal, 431, L63 (1994)
COBE DIRBE NEAR-INFRARED POLARIMETRY OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT: INITIAL RESULTS
G.B. Berriman, N.W. Boggess, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, C.M. Lisse, S.H. Moseley, W.T. Reach, and R.F. Silverberg

Preprint No. 94-10
Astrophysical Journal, 429, L69 (1994)
DIRBE EVIDENCE FOR A WARP IN THE INTERSTELLAR DUST LAYER AND STELLAR DISK OF THE GALAXY
H.T. Freudenreich, G.B. Berriman, E. Dwek, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, R.F. Silverberg, T.J. Sodroski, G.N. Toller, and J.L. Weiland

Preprint No. 94-11
Astrophysical Journal, 432, L71 (1994)
INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF COMET AUSTIN (1994V) BY COBE/DIFFUSE INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT
C.M. Lisse, H.T. Freudenreich, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, S.H. Moseley, W.T. Reach, and R.F. Silverberg

Preprint No. 94-12
Astrophysical Journal, 442, 662 (1995)
NEAR AND FAR INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF INTERPLANETARY DUST BANDS FROM THE COBE DIFFUSE INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT
W.J. Spiesman, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, C.M. Lisse, S.H. Moseley, Jr., W.T. Reach, R.F. Silverberg, S.W. Stemwedel, and J.L. Weiland

Preprint No. 94-13
in Extragalactic Background Radiation, Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, May 1993
INFRARED BACKGROUND (OBSERVATIONS)
M.G. Hauser

Preprint No. 94-14
Astrophysical Journal, 452, 262 (1995)
THE RATIO OF H2 COLUMN TO 12CO INTENSITY IN THE VICINITY OF THE GALACTIC CENTER
T.J. Sodroski, N. Odegard, E. Dwek, M.G. Hauser, B.A. Franz, I. Freedman, W.F. Wall, G.B. Berriman, S.F. Odenwald, C. Bennett, W.T. Reach, and J.L. Weiland

Preprint No. 94-15
Astrophysical Journal, 439, L29 (1995)
GAUSSIAN STATISTIC S OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND: CORRELATION OF TEMPERATURE EXTREMA IN THE COBE DMR TWO-YEAR SKY MAPS
A. Kogut, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, G. Hinshaw, P.M. Lubin, and G. Smoot

Preprint No. 94-16
Astrophysical Journal, 436, L99 (1994)
ON THE RMS ANISOTROPY AT 7 deg AND 10 deg OBSERVED IN THE COBE-DMR TWO YEAR SKY MAPS
A.J. Banday, K.M. Gorski, L. Tenorio, E.L. Wright, G.F. Smoot, C.H. Lineweaver, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, and C.L. Bennett

Preprint No. 94-18
Astrophysical Journal, 445, 716 (1995)
MORPHOLOGY, NEAR-INFRARED LUMINOSITY, AND MASS OF THE GALACTIC BULGE FROM COBE DIRBE OBSERVATIONS
E. Dwek, R.G. Arendt, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, C.M. Lisse, S.H. Moseley, Jr., R.F. Silverberg, T.J. Sodroski, and J.L. Weiland

Preprint No. 95-01
in Dark Matter, Proceedings of the 5th Astrophysics Workshop, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, October 10-12, 1994, AIP Conf. Proc., ??? (1996)

• DARK MATTER - COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND CONNECTION
  K.M. Gorski
  
• COBE-DMR TWO-YEAR LARGE SCALE ANISOTROPY RESULTS
  C.L. Bennett, A. Banday, K. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, A. Kogut, and E.L. Wright
  
• ON THE RMS ANISOTROPY AT 7 deg AND 10 deg OBSERVED IN THE COBE-DMR TWO YEAR SKY MAPS
  A. Banday, K.M. Gorski, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, C.L. Bennett, C. Lineweaver, G.F. Smoot, and L. Tenorio
  

Preprint No. 95-02
To be published in Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 168, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 1994
THE COBE DIRBE SEARCH FOR THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND
M.G. Hauser

Preprint No. 95-03
Nature, 374, 521 (1995)
OBSERVATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF A CIRCUMSOLAR DUST RING BY THE COBE SATELLITE
W.T. Reach, B.A. Franz, J.L. Weiland, M.G. Hauser, T. Kelsall, E.L. Wright, G. Rawley, S.W. Stemwedel, and W.J. Spiesman

Preprint No. 95-05
Astrophysical Journal, 446, L67 (1995)
THREE-POINT CORRELATIONS IN THE COBE DMR 2 YEAR ANISOTROPY MAPS
G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, and A. Kogut

Preprint No. 95-06
Astrophysical Journal, 451, 188 (1995)
FAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALAXY BY COBE
W.T. Reach, E. Dwek, D.J. Fixsen, T. Hewagama, J.C. Mather, R.A. Shafer, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, E.S. Cheng, R.E. Eplee, Jr., D. Leisawitz, P.M. Lubin, S.M. Read, L.P. Rosen, F.G.D. Shuman, G.F. Smoot, T.J. Sodroski, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 95-07
Astrophysical Journal, 456, 566 (1996)
COBE/DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF THE ORION CONSTELLATION FROM THE NEAR- TO FAR-INFRARED
W.F. Wall, W.T. Reach, M.G. Hauser, R.G. Arendt, J.L. Weiland, G.B. Berriman, C.L. Bennett, E. Dwek, D. Leisawitz, P.M. Mitra, S.F. Odenwald, T.J. Sodroski, and G.N. Toller

Preprint No. 95-08
in Unveiling the Cosmic Infrared Background, Proceedings of COBE Workshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 23-25, 1995, E. Dwek, ed.

• SEARCHING FOR THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND
  M.G. Hauser
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 11 (1996)
  
• DIRBE OBSERVATIONS OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT
  W.T. Reach, B.A. Franz, T. Kelsall, and J.L. Weiland
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 37 (1996)
  
• THE INTERSTELLAR DUST CONTRIBUTION TO THE DIFFUSE INFRARED SKY BRIGHTNESS
  J.L. Weiland, R.G. Arendt, and T.J. Sodroski
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 74 (1996)
  
• CLUSTERING OF DIRBE LIGHT AND IR BACKGROUND
  A. Kashlinski, J.C. Mather, S. Odenwald, and M.G. Hauser
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 115 (1996)
  
• NEAR INFRARED BACKGROUND CORRELATIONS
  S. Veeraraghavan
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 122 (1996)
  
• THE EFFECTS OF DUST AND METALLICITY EVOLUTION ON THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND
  E. Dwek and F. Varosi
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 237 (1996)
  
• EGBIRT AND DESIRE: MEASURING THE CIBR AT 3 AU
  J.C. Mather and C. Beichman
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 271 (1996)
  
• AN OVERVIEW OF THE DIRBE AND FIRAS DATA PRODUCTS
  D. Leisawitz
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 287 (1996)
  
• THE NEAR-INFRARED SCATTERING PROPERTIES OF INTERSTELLAR DUST
  G.B. Berriman, J.L. Weiland, C.M. Lisse, W.T. Reach, M.G. Hauser, and T. Kelsall
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 292 (1996)
  
• INVERSION OF THE DIRBE PHOTOMETRY TO DERIVE THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE INTERPLANETARY DUST
  B.A. Franz, W.T. Reach, T. Kelsall, and J.L. Weiland
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 296 (1996)
  
• INFRARED POINT SOURCE PHOTOMETRY WITH DIRBE: INSTRUMENT GAIN STABILIZATION AND VARIABLE STAR MONITORING
  K.J. Mitchell, G.B. Berriman, T. Kelsall, D. Richardson, J.A. Skard, and S.W. Stemwedel
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 301 (1996)
  
• SUBTRACTION OF GALACTIC STELLAR EMISSION FROM COBE/DIRBE OBSERVATIONS
  R.G. Arendt, H.T. Freudenreich, and E. Dwek
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 305 (1996)
  
• A THREE-DIMENSIONAL DECOMPOSITION OF THE INFRARED EMISSION FROM DUST IN THE MILKY WAY
  T.J. Sodroski, R.G. Arendt, N. Odegard, J.L. Weiland, E. Dwek, M.G. Hauser, and T. Kelsall
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 309 (1996)
  
• A DIRBE 12 - 240 MICRON SURVEY FOR EXTERNAL GALAXIES
  S. Odenwald, J. Newmark, and G. Smoot
  AIP Conf. Proc., 348, 318 (1996)
  

Preprint No. 95-09
Astrophysical Journal, 460, 1 (1996)
HIGH-LATITUDE GALACTIC EMISSION IN THE COBE DMR TWO-YEAR SKY MAPS
A. Kogut, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, and W.T. Reach

Preprint No. 96-01
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601067 from the LANL preprint service
4-YEAR COBE DMR COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND OBSERVATIONS: MAPS AND BASIC RESULTS
C.L. Bennett, A.J. Banday, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, P. Jackson, P. Keegstra, A. Kogut, G.F. Smoot, D.T. Wilkinson, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-02
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601060 from the LANL preprint service
MICROWAVE EMISSION AT HIGH GALACTIC LATITUDES
A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-03
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601063 from the LANL preprint service
POWER SPECTRUM OF PRIMORDIAL INHOMOGENEITY DETERMINED FROM THE 4-YEAR COBE DMR SKY MAPS
K.M. Gorski, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, G. Hinshaw, A. Kogut, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-04
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601058 from the LANL preprint service
BAND POWER SPECTRA IN THE COBE DMR 4-YEAR ANISOTROPY MAPS
G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, A. Kogut, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-05
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601059 from the LANL preprint service
ANGULAR POWER SPECTRUM OF THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPY SEEN BY THE COBE DIFFERENTIAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER
E.L. Wright, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, and G.F. Smoot

Preprint No. 96-06
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601061 from the LANL preprint service
2-POINT CORRELATIONS IN THE COBE DMR 4-YEAR ANISOTROPY MAPS
G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, A. Kogut, C.H. Lineweaver, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-07
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601062 from the LANL preprint service
TESTS FOR NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS IN THE DMR FOUR-YEAR SKY MAPS
A. Kogut, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, G.F. Smoot, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-08
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601064 from the LANL preprint service
NON-COSMOLOGICAL SIGNAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COBE-DMR FOUR-YEAR SKY MAPS
A.J. Banday, K.M. Gorski, C.L. Bennett, G. Hinshaw, A.Kogut, and G.R. Smoot

Preprint No. 96-09
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601065 from the LANL preprint service
RMS ANISOTROPY IN THE COBE-DMR FOUR-YEAR SKY MAPS
A.J. Banday, K.M. Gorski, C.L. Bennett, G. Hinshaw, C. Lineweaver, G.F. Smoot, and L. Tenorio

Preprint No. 96-10
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, 5 January 1996
Available as astro-ph/9601066 from the LANL preprint service
CALIBRATION AND SYSTEMATIC ERROR ANALYSIS FOR THE COBE DMR FOUR-YEAR SKY MAPS
A. Kogut, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, P.D. Jackson, P. Keegstra, C. Lineweaver, G.F. Smoot, L. Tenorio, and E.L. Wright

Preprint No. 96-11
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, 5 January 1996
THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND SPECTRUM FROM THE FULL COBE FIRAS DATA SETS
D.J. Fixsen, E.S. Cheng, J.M. Gales, J.C. Mather, R.A. Shafer, and E.L. Wright

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