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Cosmic background X-rays produced by intergalactic innerbremsstrahlung
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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It has been found difficult to explain both the absolute intensity and energy spectrum of the background component of cosmic X-rays in terms of a superposition of X-ray sources in distant galaxies [1] and of the inverse Compton collisions of metagalactic electrons with microwave photons [2]. Although the absolute intensity could be obtained by choosing suitable values of parameters which are not well known as yet, the gradual bending of the X-ray spectrum around 30 keV provides a critical test of theories. In this respect innerbremsstrahlung of intergalactic protons colliding with electrons is a candidate of background X-rays, since the X-ray spectrum is closely related to the proton spectrum and the latter usually bends in the non-relativistic region.
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 37: Non-Solar X- and Gamma-Ray Astronomy , 1970 , pp. 372 - 373
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- Copyright © Reidel 1970