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Galactic X-ray Background

The Galactic X-Ray Background is a diffuse astronomical phenomenon constituting a component of the X-ray background radiation that originates from within the Milky Way galaxy, primarily due to thermal emission from hot interstellar plasma and unresolved populations of X-ray-emitting stars and compact objects, thereby distinguishing it from extragalactic X-ray background sources.

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Galactic X-ray Background Radiation

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327

A theory of the interstellar medium - Three components regulated by supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous substrate

Christopher F. McKee, Jeremiah P. Ostriker · The Astrophysical Journal · 1977 · 2.1K citations

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The effect of photoionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas

Robert P. C. Wiersma, Joop Schaye, Britton Smith · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2009 · 948 citations · Full text

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Rapid X-ray flaring from the direction of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre

Frederick K. Baganoff, M. W. Bautz, W. N. Brandt et al. · Nature · 2001 · 644 citations · Full text

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The 2–8 keV cosmic X-ray background spectrum as observedwith XMM-Newton

A. De Luca, S. Molendi · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2004 · 405 citations · Full text

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X-ray background measurements with XMM-Newton EPIC

David H. Lumb, R. S. Warwick, M. J. Page et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2002 · 401 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. RS
    R. Sunyaev

    Space Research Institute, Russia

    16 publications · 880 citations

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  2. EC
    E. Churazov

    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany

    14 publications · 905 citations

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  3. HB
    H. Bradt

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    11 publications · 436 citations

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  4. EA
    E. A. Boldt

    Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

    11 publications · 601 citations

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  5. QD
    Q. Daniel Wang

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    10 publications · 381 citations

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Institutions

316

  1. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    26 h-index

    72 publications

    4.8K citations

  2. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    24 h-index

    74 publications

    4K citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    71 publications

    4K citations

  4. Space Research Institute

    Moscow, Russia

    19 h-index

    63 publications

    3.9K citations

  5. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    Garching, Germany

    18 h-index

    46 publications

    3.1K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    15 h-index

    36 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

    Garching bei München, Germany

    15 h-index

    42 publications

    4.7K citations

  8. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

    Tokyo, Japan

    15 h-index

    43 publications

    3.4K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 140 publications · 10K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    40 publications · 2.8K citations

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  3. Nature

    29 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    26 publications · 1.9K citations

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