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We report some of the results of the search for narrow-band spatial and spectral fluctuations of cosmic microwave background at the wavelength of 6.2 cmperformed with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in 2001–2006 in two 35′ × 7′ strips on the sky in the vicinity of the North Celestial Pole. We find the spectra of spatial fluctuations in the 12 MHz radio-frequency band and in the interval of spatial periods from 4′ to 16′ to exhibit power-law rises with exponents reaching −2.0±0.5, with a periodicity of 2–3 MHz. We also find two narrow-band (in terms of angular frequency) features at 4870.4 and 4871.5 MHz with the corresponding fluctuation amplitudes of 5±0.5 mK in terms of antenna temperature in the vicinity of angular periods of about 5′ with the frequency bandwidths of about 600 kHz. Standard tests performed using the spectra of the half-sum and half-difference of two groups of observations randomly drawn from a total sample of 23 records of the March 2002 observing set confirm the reality of the features of the angular spectrumof fluctuations mentioned above and so does the comparison with the spectra of cold matched load connected to the receiver input instead of the antenna. However, the nature of the features found remains unclear. Our attempt to link this radiation to rotational transitions 2Π1/2, J = 5/2 of the CH molecule, which has one of the components of its multiplet located inside the frequency interval of interest considered failed.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Gosachinskij, V.K. Dubrovich, A.P. Wenger, G.N. Il’in, 2008, published in Astrofizicheskij Byulleten, 2008, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 311–319.
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Gosachinskij, I.V., Dubrovich, V.K., Wenger, A.P. et al. Search for spatial and spectral fluctuations of cosmic microwave background radiation with the ratan-600 radio telescope. The 2001–2006 observations. Astrophys. Bull. 63, 290–298 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990341308030097
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