Historical place archive

WMAP in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at WMAP in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels2 people2003–2013

Historical events in WMAP

2003

2003
WMAP First Year Cosmic Census
Charles L. Bennett · Astronomy

Bennett leads WMAP's first-year release, establishing a precision cosmic inventory in which dark energy is the dominant component of a nearly flat universe.

2003
WMAP Lambda CDM Parameters
David N. Spergel · Astronomy

Spergel leads interpretation of WMAP first-year data, showing strong consistency with a flat Lambda-CDM universe containing a large dark-energy fraction.

2013

2013
WMAP Nine Year Final Cosmology
Charles L. Bennett · Astronomy

Bennett and the WMAP team publish final nine-year results supporting a nearly flat universe dominated at late times by dark energy consistent with a cosmological constant.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and WMAP. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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