Soft X-ray Emissions from Planets, Moons, and Comets
| dc.creator | Bhardwaj, A. | |
| dc.date | 2002-09-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:58:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:58:35Z | |
| dc.description | A wide variety of solar system bodies are now known to radiate in the soft x-ray energy (<5 keV) regime. These include planets (Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mars): bodies having thick atmospheres, with or without intrinsic magnetic field; planetary satellites (Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede): bodies with thin or no atmospheres; and comets and the Io plasma torus: bodies having extended tenuous atmospheres. Several different mechanisms have been proposed to explain the generation of soft x-rays from these objects, whereas in the hard x-ray energy range (>10 keV) x-rays result mainly from the electron bremsstrahlung process. In this paper we present a brief review of the x-ray observations on each of the planetary bodies and discuss their characteristics and proposed source mechanisms. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages including 4 figures; Proc.36th ESLAB Symposium "Earth-Like Planets and Moons", June 3-8, 2002, ESTEC, The Netherlands, ESA SP-514, Ed. Bruce Battrick | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209107 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209107 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/128058 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Soft X-ray Emissions from Planets, Moons, and Comets | |
| dc.type | text |