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arxiv: astro-ph/0406031 · v1 · pith:AB6VOVM3new · submitted 2004-06-01 · 🌌 astro-ph

The Missing X-ray Background

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The fraction of the hard X-ray background (XRB) resolved into individual sources by the deep Chandra and XMM-Newton surveys strongly depends on the adopted energy range and decreases with increasing energy. As a consequence, the nature of the sources of the even harder (>10 keV) XRB remains observationally poorly constrained. I will briefly discuss the need for X-ray observations above 10 keV.

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