Support of selected X-ray studies to be performed using data from the UHURU (SAS-A) satellite

Details Support of selected X-ray studies to be performed using data from the UHURU (SAS-A) satellite Support of selected X-ray studies to be performed using data from the UHURU (SAS-A) satellite

Jan 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976cait.reptq....g&link_type=abstract

Final Report California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena. George W. Downs Lab. of Physics.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Sas-1, X Ray Astronomy, Background Noise, Background Radiation, Cosmic Rays, Electrons, Energy Spectra, Statistical Analysis, X Ray Sources

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A new measurement of the diffuse X-ray emission sets more stringent upper limits on the fluctuations of the background and on the number counts of X-ray sources with absolute value of b 20 deg than previous measurements. A random sample of background data from the Uhuru satellite gives a relative fluctuation in excess of statistics of 2.0% between 2.4 and 6.9 keV. The hypothesis that the relative fluctuation exceeds 2.9% can be rejected at the 90% confidence level. No discernable energy dependence is evident in the fluctuations in the pulse height data, when separated into three energy channels of nearly equal width from 1.8 to 10.0 keV. The probability distribution of fluctuations was convolved with the photon noise and cosmic ray background deviation (obtained from the earth-viewing data) to yield the differential source count distribution for high latitude sources. Results imply that a maximum of 160 sources could be between 1.7 and 5.1 x 10 to the -11 power ergs/sq cm/sec (1-3 Uhuru counts).

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