Lab Exercise 9

X-Ray Sources


Read Section 9.9 and answer Question 18 with this figure.


  
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Figure 9.18: Uhuru X-ray sources. The first X-Ray satellite, Uhuru, produced this map of x-ray point sources in the 1970's. (Uhuru is a Swahili word meaning "Freedom") The size of the dots represent how bright the sources are in x-rays. Is there only one distribution of X-rays or are there two distributions?

 

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