Science. 1995 May 12;268(5212):829-35. doi: 10.1126/science.268.5212.829.
Fluctuations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background have now been detected over a wide range of angular scales, and a consistent picture seems to be emerging. This article describes some of the implications for cosmology. Analysis of all of the published detections suggests the existence of a peak on degree scales with a height 2.4 to 10 (90 percent confidence level) times the amplitude of the power spectrum at large angular scales. This result confirms an early prediction, implies that the universe did in fact recombine, and limits theories of structure formation. Illustrative examples show how comparison of the microwave background data and the large-scale structure data will be a potentially powerful means of answering fundamental questions about the universe.
宇宙微波背景温度的波动现在已经在广泛的角尺度范围内被探测到，并且似乎出现了一致的图像。本文描述了对宇宙学的一些启示。对所有已发表的探测结果的分析表明，在度尺度上存在一个峰值，其高度是大角尺度上幂谱幅度的 2.4 到 10（90%置信水平）倍。这一结果证实了早期的预测，表明宇宙实际上确实重新组合了，并限制了结构形成理论。说明性的例子表明，如何比较微波背景数据和大尺度结构数据将是回答关于宇宙的基本问题的一种潜在强大手段。
