Abstract
Measurements in five different passbands in the spectral region below 20 have been made with a liquid-helium-cooled radiometer in two flights at approximately 40-km altitude. The equivalent temperatures are , 2.8±0.2, 2.8±0.2, ≤2.7, ≤3.4°K in passbands of 1 to 5.4, 7.8, 7.9, 11.1, and 18.5 . The results are consistent with a 2.7°K thermal radiation background. Atmospheric radiation of uncertain magnitude dominates the region above 11 .
- Received 2 March 1972
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.7.326
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