Brightest sources in the ROSAT pointings as well as in the All-Sky Survey generate disproportionately high fraction of the total X-ray background (XRB) fluctuations. The autocorrelation function of the soft XRB indicates that substantial fraction of the XRB variations over a wide range of angular scales is associated with relatively few bright sources. Possible explanation of this effect are listed. It is likely that most of the fluctuations of the XRB are not produced by source clustering represented by the standard power law autocorrelation function with the canonical index of -1.8.
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Univ Illinois, Natl Ctr Supercomp Applicat, 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Univ Illinois, Dept Astron, W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 USAUniv Geneva, Dept Astron, Ch Ecogia 16, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
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European Southern Observ, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago De Chi, ChileUniv Geneva, Dept Astron, Ch Ecogia 16, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland