The soft X-ray background towards the northern sky. A detailed analysis of the Milky Way halo
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The correlation of the ROSAT all-sky survey (Snowden et al. 1995) with the Leiden/Dwingeloo H I 21 cm-line survey (Hartmann & Burton 1997) leads to a consistent model of the soft X-ray background (SXRB). The diffuse X-ray radiation originates from three different components: I. The Local Hot Bubble (LHB) (ILHB), II. The diffuse X-ray emission of the Milky Way halo (IHALO), III. The extragalactic X-ray background (IEXTRA). The tracer for the absorption is the H I column density (NH i). The radiative transport equation is:
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