Extragalactic X-ray Sources

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Jun 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972natur.237..440b&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 237, Issue 5356, pp. 440-443 (1972).

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The extended X-ray sources associated with the Virgo, Perseus, and Coma clusters of galaxies can best be explained as a result of the Compton scattering of relativistic electrons (generated in the radio sources which are present in each of these clusters) on the microwave background radiation. The same physical process involving microwave infrared or optical photons generated in the nuclei of active galaxies may account for the more compact X-ray sources. Thermal bremsstrahlung of hot gas in clusters of galaxies is a less likely source of X-rays.

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