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Number Counts and the Background Radiation

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At last, we can get down to the business of working out the source counts and background radiation from a cosmological distribution of discrete sources or from the diffuse intergalactic medium.

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(1995). Number Counts and the Background Radiation. In: The Deep Universe. Saas-Fee Advanced Courses, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31635-3_23

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