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A Model of the Soft X-Ray Background as a Blast wave Viewed from Inside

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Richard J. Edgar  and
Donald P. Cox
Richard J. Edgar
Affiliation:
Space Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Donald P. Cox
Affiliation:
Space Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract

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The suggestion that the soft x-ray background arises In part from the Sun being inside a large (R ∼ 100 pc) supernova blastwave is examined by producing models of spherical blastwaves. Such models can produce quantitative fits to both surface brightnesses and energy band ratios (for the lowest energy bands) when t ∼ 105 yr, EO = 5 x 1050 ergs, and nO ≃ 0.004 cm-3.

Such models can be generalized by varying the relative importance of such factors as thermal conduction, Coulomb heating of electrons, and external pressure; by allowing the explosions to occur In pre-existing cavities with steep density gradients, or by examining the effects of large obstructions or other anlsotroples in the ambient medium.

Type
Theoretical Models
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 81: Local Interstellar Medium , 1984 , pp. 297 - 300
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1984

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