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Intensity of the Soft X-ray Background Flux : Reply to Bowyer and Field

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Bowyer and Field1 have disputed the diffuse background flux of soft X-rays reported by us2. They object to our calculation of field of view (in a paper at the December 1968 meeting of the American Astronomical Society); to our allowance for “background” counts; and to our use of 21 cm hydrogen measurements, and corresponding X-ray absorption coefficients, rather than the substantially lower effective absorption coefficient which they deduced3 from measurements of the galactic soft X-ray absorption. We wish to reply to these criticisms.

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    R. C. HENRY, G. FRITZ, J. F. MEEKINS, H. FRIEDMAN & E. T. BYRAM

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HENRY, R., FRITZ, G., MEEKINS, J. et al. Intensity of the Soft X-ray Background Flux : Reply to Bowyer and Field. Nature 225, 362–363 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225362a0

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