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A HIGH energy X-ray sky survey was carried out in a balloon flight from Mildura, Australia, on October 24, 1967. We placed upper limits on the high energy X-ray intensities from the large and small Magellanic clouds of one-twelfth and one-eighth the intensity from Tau X-1, respectively.
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LEWIN, W., CLARK, G. & SMITH, W. Search for X-rays from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Nature 220, 249–250 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220249b0
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