Solar System Studies and the Wide Field X-ray Telescope

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21547305c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #473.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.521

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The proposed WFXT mission with its 1 square degree field of view will be performing 3 deep wide field surveys of 20000 sq. deg., 3000 sq. deg., and 100 sq. deg. in order to discover and characterize extremely large populations of high redshift AGN and clusters of galaxies. These surveys will also include repeated observations and detections of foreground solar system objects throughout the course of the mission. WFXT will thus provide a wealth of new information for local solar system X-ray astrophysics. Understanding these local soft x-ray emission processes, driven by scattering of solar X-rays, and charge exchange with the solar wind, entails understanding the nearest, best example of a stellar wind throughout interplanetary space, understanding the coupled neutral outflows from Io and their coupling to the rapidly rotating Jovian dynamo, understanding the influx and outflow of ISM H and He through the heliosphere, and understanding emission from the local hot bubble in the nearby ISM, surrounding the heliosphere. Here we present the expected census of solar systems observation possible with WXFT.

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