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A Measurement of the Diffuse Cosmic X-Ray Background from 17 to 167 keV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. M. Thomas*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide

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This paper presents a measurement of the diffuse cosmic X-ray background made during the balloon flight described in preceding papers and elsewhere. The data used for this paper were obtained with the actively shielded and collimated detector previously described. The geometric factor of the detector was 1.17 cm2 sterad.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1968

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