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Interactions of non-thermal X-rays and ultraviolet radiation by the intergalactic gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

M. J. Rees  and
G. Setti
M. J. Rees
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Cambridge, England
G. Setti
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Bologna, Italy

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We wish to discuss two ways in which non-thermal background X-rays and ultraviolet radiation may interact with intergalactic matter: (i) low energy photons may be intense enough to photoionize the intergalactic medium and maintain it as an Hii region; (ii) the recoil associated with Compton scattering of hard X-rays provides an additional heat input into the medium, as well as causing a characteristic modification of the background radiation spectrum. We shall merely summarize our results here, as fuller details are appearing elsewhere (Rees and Setti, 1969).

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Research Article
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 37: Non-Solar X- and Gamma-Ray Astronomy , 1970 , pp. 402 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

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