Soft X-Rays From Four Comets Observed With EUVE
Abstract
EUVE observations of X-ray production rates, brightness distributions, and brightness maximum offsets from nuclei in four comets are compared with gas and dust production rates in those comets. This comparison favors charge transfer of solar wind heavy ions to cometary neutrals as a dominant process for X-ray excitation.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1086/311071
- Bibcode:
- 1997ApJ...491L.125M
- Keywords:
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- X-RAYS: GENERAL;
- COMETS: GENERAL;
- COMETS: INDIVIDUAL NAME: HYAKUTAKE (C/1996 B2);
- COMETS: INDIVIDUAL NAME: HALE-BOPP 1995 O1;
- SUN: SOLAR WIND;
- SCATTERING;
- Comets: General;
- comets: individual (Hyakutake;
- Hale-Bopp);
- Scattering;
- Sun: Solar Wind;
- X-Rays: General
