Soft X-rays from the sunlit earth's atmosphere

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Jun 1982

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Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, vol. 44, June 1982, p. 499-508. Research supported by the Aerospace Corp.;

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Atmospheric Radiation, Earth Atmosphere, Nitrogen, Oxygen Spectra, Satellite Observation, Solar X-Rays, Earth Albedo, Environmental Monitoring, Fluorescence, Heao 1, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Corona, Thomson Scattering

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Observations of soft X-ray emission from the sunlit earth atmosphere are presented and compared with the predictions of an earth albedo X-ray theory. The exact theory accounts for the flux of Thomson scattered solar X rays and fluorescently excited K X rays that arise following the absorption of incident X rays as a function of observing geometry. Observations were made at widely separated geometries with the two low-energy detectors of the A-2 experiment on the HEAO-1 satellite. Fitting of the model to the observed spectra results in values for the solar coronal temperature and emission measure that are in good agreement with expected values for the nonflaring sun, indicating that X-ray observations of the sunlit atmosphere may be a useful monitor of solar activity for satellites unable to view the sun directly. The total measured fluorescent line flux is also in agreement with calculations, although the N/O line ratio is not. X-ray fluorescence measurements from the sunlit atmosphere will thus be useful in monitoring atmospheric composition only to the extent that the total line counting rates depend upon the composition.

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