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Soft X-ray Background

The Soft X-Ray Background is a diffuse cosmic radiation component within the X-Ray Background Radiation spectrum, distinguished by its photon energies in the 0.1–2 keV range, primarily originating from hot interstellar plasma and unresolved astrophysical sources.

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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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Soft X-ray spectrum of a hot plasma

J. C. Raymond, B. W. Smith · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1977 · 1.4K citations

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Where Are the Baryons?

The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 1K citations · Full text

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The synthesis of the cosmic X-ray background in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era

R. Gilli, A. Comastri, G. Hasinger · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2006 · 923 citations · Full text

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The neutral atomic phases of the interstellar medium

M. G. Wolfire, D. J. Hollenbach, Christopher F. McKee et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1995 · 914 citations

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    A. C. Fabian

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    Chris Done

    Durham University, United Kingdom

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    Roma Tre University, Italy

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    D. McCammon

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

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    W. T. Sanders

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

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  1. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

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  2. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

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  3. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

    Garching bei München, Germany

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    Paris, France

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  6. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

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    Milan, Italy

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

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