Cosmic X-ray background from hot gas

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Jan 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991apj...366...22r&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 366, Jan. 1, 1991, p. 22-29.

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Cosmic Gases, Cosmic X Rays, Astronomical Models, Computational Astrophysics, Gravitational Lenses, High Temperature Gases, Mass Distribution, Relic Radiation

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This paper considers constraints on models of the cosmic X-ray background (XRB) in which the XRB is produced by optically thin thermal bremsstrahlung from hot gas. It is shown that models in which the gas is gravitationally confined in a spherical configuration and is heated only once are contradicted by the observed number of gravitationally lensed quasars together with the lower limit on the number of XRB sources required by limits on fluctuations in the XRB and the cosmic microwave background. In addition, it is shown that, for models in which the gas is not gravitationally confined, the expansion time of the gas is much shorter than the radiative cooling time, so that such models cannot explain the XRB. It is concluded that thermal bremsstrahlung models cannot account for the XRB if the emitting gas is heated only once.

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