Saskatoon experiment

Saskatoon was an experiment to measure the anisotropy (directional dependence) of the cosmic microwave background at angular scales of 60 < l < 360. It was named for Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where the experiment took place, and occurred in the winters of 1993 to 1995.

See also

• Cosmic microwave background experiments
• Observational cosmology

External links

• Saskatoon homepage

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