t"Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
(WMAP) observations: Temperature analysis," by G. Hinshaw
and 21 others, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 170(2):
288-334, June 2007.
[Authors' affiliations: 15 U.S. and Canadian institutions]
From the Abstract: "We present new full-sky temperature
maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on data from the
first 3 years of the WMAP sky survey. The new maps are consistent
with the first-year maps and are more sensitive. The 3 year maps
incorporate several improvements in data processing made possible by the
additional years of data and by a more complete analysis of the
polarization signal. These include several new consistency tests as well as
refinements in the gain calibration and beam response models. We employ two
forms of multifrequency analysis to separate astrophysical foreground
signals from the CMB, each of which improves on our first-year analyses.
First, we form an improved "Internal Linear Combination'' (ILC) map, based
solely on WMAP data, by adding a bias-correction step and by
quantifying residual uncertainties in the resulting map. Second, we fit and
subtract new spatial templates that trace Galactic emission; in particular,
we now use low-frequency WMAP data to trace synchrotron emission
instead of the 408 MHz sky survey. The WMAP point source catalog
is updated to include 115 new sources whose detection is made possible by
the improved sky map sensitivity...."
This 2007 report from the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
was cited 46 times in current journal articles
indexed by Clarivate during July-August 2008. Only one other physics
paper published in the last two years, aside from reviews, collected a
higher citation total during that two-month period. Prior to the most
recent bimonthly count, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:
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