銀河の塊状分布は,X線背景の滑らかな光景と調和できるのでしょうか
1Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Nature
|December 19, 1970
まとめ
X線の背景写真です.
科学分野:
- コスモロジー・コスモロジーとは
- 天体物理学 天体物理学
- X線天文学 X線天文学
背景:
- 観測されたX線背景の強度はパズルを提示します.
- 銀河団のような大規模な構造は,現在の観測を上回る変動を引き起こす可能性があります.
研究 の 目的:
- X線背景の起源を調査するために.
- 理論モデルと観測データを調和させる.
主な方法:
- 観測データと銀河構造から予測されたX線変動の比較.
- 階層的な宇宙モデルの評価とX線背景特性との比較.
主要な成果:
- 銀河団や超銀河団からの変動は,観測されたX線背景レベルと矛盾しています.
- X線源の分布が質量分布を反映した階層的なモデルは無効である.
結論:
- X線背景は,明るい光学銀河ではなく,数多く,均等に分布した低輝度物体から発生している可能性が高い.
- 現在の階層的な宇宙モデルは,X線背景を説明するために修正が必要です.
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