The spatial distribution of cosmic X-ray sources from the isotropy of the soft X-ray background

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Aug 1992

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 257, no. 3, Aug. 1, 1992, p. 507-512. Research supporte

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Background Radiation, Cosmology, Diffuse Radiation, Quasars, X Ray Sources, Autocorrelation, Energy Spectra, Isotropy, Red Shift, Rosat Mission

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Recent studies of the autocorrelation function of the soft X-ray background on arcmin scales, carried out with imaging instruments (basically the Rosat PSPC), are used to constrain the clustering properties of the sources of the residual background, namely what is left after sources brighter than about 10 exp -14 erg/sq cm s in the 0.5-2 keV band have been removed. It is concluded that sources clustering like optically selected QSOs cannot provide more than about 60 percent of the residual intensity. If, on the other hand, it is assumed that galaxies produce the bulk of the residual background, then on very general grounds it is concluded that the evolution of their spatial correlation function has to be extremely rapid (not less than the rate of stable clustering) at the relevant redshifts of 0.5-3. Future studies of the autocorrelation function on these scales leading to smaller upper limits will show whether clusters are stable or still growing, either linearly or nonlinearly, at these redshifts.

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