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Nov 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984nascp2345..169p&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Local Interstellar Medium, No. 81 p 169-184 (SEE N85-15539 06-90)
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Absorptivity, Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Interstellar Gas, Interstellar Matter, Thermal Emission, Diffuse Radiation, Flux Density, Ultraviolet Telescopes, White Dwarf Stars
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The Berkeley extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV) telescope flown on the Apollo Soyuz mission in July, 1975 established the existence of a measurable flux of EUV (100 lambda or = or = 1000 A) originating from sources outside the solar system. White dwarfs, flare stars and cataclysmic variables were dicovered to be relatively intense compact sources of EUV photons. Moreover, this and other subsequent experiments have strongly suggested the presence of a truly diffuse component of the FUV radiation field possibly due to thermal emission from hot interstellar gas located in the general vicinity of the Sun. Closer to the H1, 912 A edge, the effect of a few hot O and B stars has been shown to be very important in establishing the interstellar flux density. All these results imply that the local interstellar medium (ISM) is immersed in a non-negligible EUV radiation field which, because of the strong coupling between EUV photons and matter, will play a crucial role in determining its physical structure. The available information on the local ISM derived from the limited EUV observations carried out so far is assembled and analyzed. These include measurements of the spectra of bright EUV sources that reveal clear evidence of H photo absorption at lambda 400 A and of the He ionization edge at 228 A.
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