The two classic papers on cosmic background radiation are:
A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s
A.A. Penzias & R.W. Wilson
Astrophysical Journal 142: 419-421, July 1965
Cosmic Black-Body Radiation
R.H. Dicke et al.
Astrophysical Journal 142: 414-419, July, 1965
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Where page numbers are given in the text, they refer to the pages in the particular editions of the publications listed here:
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