University of Kansas X-Ray Emission in the Solar System

Draft X-Ray Emission from the Terrestrial Magnetosheath by Robertson and Cravens

Image: Jovian soft X-rays from ROSAT; courtesy of J. H. Waite.

Conclusions

This paper made predictions of soft X-ray emission from the terrestrial magnetosheath due to charge transfer of solar wind ions with geocoronal atomic hydrogen. Simulated images were generated in which bow shock and magnetopause locations were clearly evident. Simple estimates indicate that it should be possible to extract the magnetosheath signal from the soft X-ray background emission, in which case soft X-ray observations could potentially provide a powerful means of remotely imaging the magnetosheath.

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Last modified January 21, 2004 Tizby Hunt-Ward tizby@ku.edu