Correlation of the 2-10 keV X-Ray background with nearby galaxies

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Active Galactic Nuclei, Astronomical Catalogs, Background Radiation, Cross Correlation, Signal Processing, X Ray Astronomy, Data Correlation, Energy Spectra, Ginga Satellite, Goodness Of Fit, Statistical Analysis, X Ray Sources

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Catalogs of several types of extragalactic objectes have been cross-correlated with Ginga measurements of the X-ray background intensity. Some of these catalogs give rise to significant signals, meaning that either sources in them or some other sources clustered around them produce a fraction of the X-ray background. The significance of these results has been established using bootstrap and X-ray background simulations. An expression to infer the local X-ray emissivity from the cross-correlation signal is given and applied to two galaxy catalogs (UGC and IRAS) for which the signal is more significant (greater than 95 per cent). Values of approximately 1039 h erg/s/cu Mpc are obtained, implying that is less than or equal to 30 per cent of the X-ray background could be produced by a non-evolving population of galaxies.

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