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Diffuse Background Quiz

  1. Above 1 keV, what is the dominant source of the soft X-ray background emission?


  2. At higher energies the sources of the diffuse background are mainly located in our galaxy.


  3. Much of the cosmic gamma-ray emission comes from


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