Jovian X-ray emissions.

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Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996rftu.proc..641w&link_type=abstract

International Conference on X-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics: Röntgenstrahlung from the Universe, p. 641 - 644

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Jupiter: X Rays, Jupiter: Comets, Comets: Fragmentation

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First detected in 1979, soft X-ray emissions from Jupiter are observed to emanate from the planet's auroral zones and, more recently, from its equatorial region. The processes responsible for these emissions are not established, but observational and theoretical evidence suggests they are line emissions from energetic sulfur and oxygen instead of bremsstrahlung excited by energetic electrons. The brightness distribution of the Jovian X-rays is characterized by a dependence on central meridian longitude and by north-south and morning-afternoon asymmetries (with the brightest emissions occurring in the northern/afternoon sector). X-rays observed during the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 are believed to be impact-induced brightenings of the X-ray aurora.

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