On the intensity of the cosmic X-ray background

Details On the intensity of the cosmic X-ray background On the intensity of the cosmic X-ray background

2000-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005596v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) L13

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, MNRAS, in the press

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03733.x

Measurements of the intensity of the cosmic X-ray background (XRB) carried out over small solid angles are subject to spatial variations due to the discrete nature of the XRB. This cosmic variance can account for the dispersion of XRB intensity values found within the ASCA, BeppoSAX and ROSAT missions separately. However there are differences among the values obtained in the different missions which are not due to spatial fluctuations but, more likely, to systematic cross-calibration errors. Prompted by recent work which shows that ROSAT PSPC has calibration differences with all the other missions, we compute a bayesian estimate for the XRB intensity at 1 keV of 10.0^{+0.6}_{-0.9} keV/cm2/s/keV/sr (90 per cent confidence errors) using the ASCA and BeppoSAX data points. However, this value is still significantly larger than the HEAO-1 intensity measured over many thousands of square degrees (8 keV/cm2/s/keV/sr).

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