Observational Constraints on the Origin of the Diffuse Background Radiation Between 0.5 and 2 KEV.
Abstract
The spatial and spectral nature of the diffuse soft X-ray background were studied using data from five sounding rocket flights. The spectrum of the high (2-6 keV) X-rays is consistent with 11E to the -1.4 power photons (1/s2q cm -ser-sr-keV) to the -1 power, and is in agreement with the observations of others. The data at intermediate energies (0/5-2.0 keV) are found to admit the possibility of a constribution of extragalactic origin at least as large as the extrapolation of the higher spectrum. The conclusion that emitting regions with two differing temperatures are required to explain the soft X-ray background is supported. Variable models as to the nature and location of the higher temperature emitting regions are discussed.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978PhDT.........2N
- Keywords:
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- Physics: Astronomy and Astrophysics;
- Background Radiation;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- X Ray Spectra;
- Constraints;
- Extraterrestrial Radiation;
- Neutral Gases;
- Spatial Distribution;
- Temperature;
- X Rays;
- Astrophysics