A major step in understanding the X-ray generation in comets: Recent progress obtained with XMM-Newton

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 277-288

  Dennerl, Konrad ^a   Aschenbach, Bernd ^a   Burwitz, Vadim ^a   Englhauser, Jakob ^a   Lisse, Carey M ^b   Rodríguez Pascual, Pedro M ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c XMM Newton SOC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Charge exchange; Comets; Heavy ions; Satellite operation; Solar wind; X rays; XMM Newton

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; PHOTONS; SATELLITES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

SOLAR WINDS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0038634578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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