Imaging Plasma Density Structures in the Soft X-Rays Generated by Solar Wind Charge Exchange with Neutrals
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Beschreibung
This book provides a comprehensive review of the soft X-rays emitted when the solar wind interacts with exospheric neutrals at Venus, Mars, comets, the Moon, and Earth. It shows how observations can be used to address research problems ranging from the nature of magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause to atmospheric loss at other planets. The book provides the theoretical basis for soft X-ray emission and describes simulations of the expected emissions, past observations by narrow field-of-view X-ray telescopes, and current efforts to develop a new generation of wide field-of-view telescopes capable of capturing the entire solar wind-obstacle interaction.
Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Volume 214, Issue 4, Article 79, 2018
Reviews past observations, numerical simulations, and the theory of soft X-rays Details the instrumentation needed to study soft X-rays emitted from planetary obstacles Describes unsolved problems in the solar wind's interaction with Solar System obstacles
Autor*in
David G. Sibeck
Themen in »Imaging Plasma Density Structures in the Soft X-Rays Generated by Solar Wind Charge Exchange with Neutrals«
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