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Can the Lumpy Distribution of Galaxies be Detected by X-ray observations ?

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Published data from X-ray telescopes are not adequate to reveal the fluctuations in the surface brightness of the background radiation caused by clustering or superclustering of the sources giving rise to the background.

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WEBSTER, A. Can the Lumpy Distribution of Galaxies be Detected by X-ray observations ?. Nature 238, 20–24 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238020a0

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