Published May 11, 2009
| Version v1
Journal article
A New Measurement of the Cosmic X-ray Background
Creators
- 1. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera v. E. Bianchi 46 23807 Merate (Italy)
Description
I present a new analytical description of the cosmic X-ray background (CXRB) spectrum in the 1.5-200 keV energy band, obtained by combining the new measurement performed by the Swift X-ray telescope (XRT) with the recently published Swift burst alert telescope (BAT) measurement. A study of the cosmic variance in the XRT band (1.5-7 keV) is also presented. I find that the expected cosmic variance (expected from LogN-LogS) scales as Ω-0.3(where Ω is the surveyed area) in very good agreement with XRT data.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.3149419;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0811.1444v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 1126
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 223-226
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 2. international Simbol-X symposium
- Dates
- 2-5 Dec 2008
- Place
- Paris (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41048971
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ASTROPHYSICS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; COSMIC PHOTONS; COSMIC X-RAY SOURCES; KEV RANGE; TELESCOPE COUNTERS; X RADIATION; X-RAY DETECTION; X-RAY SPECTRA; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA; SPECTROSCOPY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics