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Table 1

Comparison between all sky surveys with similar frequencies aligned in rows.

DMR WMAP Planck AKARI IRAS WISE






ν FWHM ν FWHM ν FWHM ν FWHM ν FWHM ν FWHM

23 53
32 420 33 40 30 32.65
41 31 44 27.00
53 420 61 21 70 13.01
90 420 94 13 100 9.94
143 7.04
217 4.66
353 4.41
545 4.47
857 4.23
1.9 × 103 0.8
2.1 × 103 0.7
3.3 × 103 0.45 3 × 103 5.2
4.6 × 103 0.32 5 × 103 3.9
16.7 × 103 0.09 12 × 103 4.5 13.6 × 103 0.2
33 × 103 0.05 25 × 103 4.7 25 × 103 0.11
65 × 103 0.11
88 × 103 0.1

Notes. The left column for each mission gives the frequency (ν in GHz) while the right column gives the spatial resolution as a full width at half maximum (FWHM) in arcminutes.

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