Revealing powerful obscured AGN through the X-ray background

The identity of the source of the cosmic X-ray background (XRB) radiation above a few keV has been a mystery for the past 40 years. After the cosmic microwave background was found to have a spectral shape very close to that of a blackbody, it came to be accepted that some kind of discrete sources mu...

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Main Author: Gandhi, P.
Published: University of Cambridge 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599297