Limits on soft X-ray flux from distant emission regions
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:6450042
The all-sky soft X-ray data of McCammon et al. and the new N sub H survey (Stark et al. was used to place limits on the amount of the soft X-ray diffuse background that can originate beyond the neutral gas of the galactic disk. The X-ray data for two regions of the sky near the galactic poles are shown to be uncorrelated with 21 cm column densities. Most of the observed x-ray flux must therefore originate on the near side of the most distant neutral gas. The results from these regions are consistent with X-ray emission from a locally isotropic, unabsorbed source, but require large variations in the emission of the local region over large angular scales.
- Research Organization:
- Wisconsin Univ., Madison (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6450042
- Report Number(s):
- N-84-26558; NASA-CR-173591
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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