Advances in solar and cosmic X-ray astronomy - A survey of experimental techniques and observational results.The current status of X-ray astronomy is surveyed by reviewing observational results and theoretical conclusions gained within the past two years in areas dealing with the quiet-sun, slowly-varying, and burst components of solar X-radiation and with the features of cosmic X-ray sources. Thermal and nonthermal processes responsible for a wide variety of X-ray emission mechanisms in nature are explained, and characteristics of X radiation from specific solar structures are described. Attention is given to the effects of interstellar and intergalactic matter on cosmic X-rays; the properties of galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources; and the specifications of such instruments as gas-filled ionization detectors, proportional counters, Geiger counters, scintillation detectors, photoelectric detectors, polarimeters, collimators, spectrometers, and imaging systems.
Document ID
19730029365
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other - Collected Works
Authors
Hoover, R. B. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Astrionics Laboratory, Huntsville, Ala., United States)
Thomas, R. J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Solar Plasmas Branch, Greenbelt, Md., United States)
Underwood, J. H. (Aerospace Corp. Space Physics Laboratory, El Segundo, Calif., United States)