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From Sputnik to the Moon: Astrophysics and Cosmology from Space

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The launch of the Sputnik in October 1957 signed the beginning of space era. Just after few years Bruno Rossi opened the era of astrophysics observations. The Italian community has played, since then, an important role in the space community. After the success of many satellite missions, such as BeppoSAX, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, now the next frontier could be pioneering the scientific activities on the Moon. The absence of atmospheric emission and telecommunication interferences joined to the possibility of locating scientific instrumentation of relevant size and adaptive in time makes the Moon an ideal astronomical site for many branches of the modern astrophysics and cosmology and for dedicated fundamental physics experiments. Accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation and of the radio sky at extremely long wavelengths could take a great advantage from the opportunity of observations from the Moon. In this context, we discuss here some aspects of particular interest: the CMB anisotropy in polarization and total intensity (at very small scales), the CMB spectrum. Some guidelines for future experiments from the Moon are presented.

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    http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/current/

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    http://www.rssd.esa.int/planck

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    http://www.b-pol.org/index.php

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    It could be also present at smaller scales towards active and primeval galaxies (e.g. [42, 16]).

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    Improvements in absolute spectrum measurements have been recently achieved with the NASA ARCADE balloon-borne experiment [19, 31] (see http://arcade.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and announced during the conclusion of the writing of this contribution; they suggest a signal excess at 3.3 GHz [20, 50, 32].

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    In particular, this would permit the determination of the frequency location of the minimum of the distortion [13], so independently proving the product of the baryon density with the square of the Hubble constant.

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It is a pleasure to thank S. Dell’Agnello, F. Finelli, L. La Porta, G. Morgante, L.A. Popa, P. Procopio, R. Ragazzoni, R. Salvaterra, and F. Villa for collaborations and constructive discussions.

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Burigana, C., Mandolesi, N., Valenziano, L. (2010). From Sputnik to the Moon: Astrophysics and Cosmology from Space. In: Perozzi, E., Ferraz-Mello, S. (eds) Space Manifold Dynamics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0348-8_10

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