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The cosmic X-ray background has been found to be anisotropic. It is interpreted as being made up of two components: an isotropic background, possibly of extragalactic origin, and an anomalous emission, perhaps located within the Galaxy.
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01 January 1968
In the communication entitled "Detection of an Anisotropic Soft X-ray Background Flux" by C. S. Bowyer, G. B. Field and J. E. Mack (Nature, 217, 32; 1968) the formula in line 14 of the penultimate paragraph should read ?Na2 dl = 0.7 and not ?Na2 dl=0.7.
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BOWYER, C., FIELD, G. & MACK, J. Detection of an Anisotropic Soft X-ray Background Flux. Nature 217, 32–34 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217032a0
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