Observations of the background component of cosmic X rays
- 15 May 1968
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physics
- Vol. 46 (10) , S466-S469
- https://doi.org/10.1139/p68-271
Abstract
The background component of cosmic X rays was observed using collimators of different fields of view. It was found that there existed a component with the counting rate proportional to the field of view. The intensity of the background component was found to be essentially uniform except in the region including the Sco X-1 source and sources in the vicinity of the galactic center. The energy spectrum was nearly flat in the energy range between 4 and 8 keV, and the intensity was 0.45 ± 0.09 photon cm−2 s−1 keV−1. The shape of the spectrum was checked by comparison with the spectrum of Sco X-1.Keywords
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