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Using IRAS Cirrus to Look for X-Ray Shadowing with ROSAT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Helen J. Walker ,
Alan W. Harris  and
Timothy J. Sumner
Helen J. Walker
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
Alan W. Harris
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
Timothy J. Sumner
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine London, SW7 2BZ, UK

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The ROSAT X-ray satellite mission and its X-ray telescope (XRT) are described by Trümper (1984). The characteristics of the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on ROSAT and its potential for studies of the soft X-ray background (SXRB) are discussed by Harris, Sumner, and Walker (1989, this volume). The energy range covered by the WFC is 0.06 keV to 0.21 keV (60 Å to 200 Å), whilst the XRT covers the higher energy range from 0.2 keV to 2 keV. Observations performed to date in this field have given rise to conflicting evidence on the location and nature of the 106 K gas, which is presumed to be the origin of the observed emission (see references in Harris, Sumner, and Walker, 1989, this volume).

Type
V. Future Plans and Approaches
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 465 - 466
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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