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We present the first results of observations of the intrinsic anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation with the Cosmic Background Imager from a site at 5080 m altitude in northern Chile. Our observations show a sharp decrease in Cₗ in the range l = 400 - 1500. Such a decrease in power at high l is one of the fundamental predictions of the standard cosmological model, and these are the first observations which cover a broad enough l-range to show this decrease in a single experiment. The power, Cₗ, at l ~ 600 is higher than measured by Boomerang and Maxima, with the differences being significant at the 2. 7sigma and 1. 9sigma levels, respectively. The Cₗ we have measured enable us to place limits on the density parameter, Omega (tot) = 0. 7 (90% confidence).
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