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The X-ray Albedo from the Earth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J.R. Harries  and
R.J. Francey
J.R. Harries
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide
R.J. Francey
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Tasmania
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An albedo X-ray flux from the Earth was observed by experiments which were flown on Skylark rockets during April 1967. The details of the flights and the equipment have been covered in a previous paper. The celestial X-rays observed from discrete sources are superimposed on a diffuse X-ray flux. Most measurements of this diffuse flux have taken the difference between the number of X-rays observed from an area of sky, which is thought to be free of sources, and the flux from the direction of the Earth. By assuming that there are no X-rays from the direction of the Earth, this method removes the high-energy charged-particle background which should be the same in both cases.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , February 1968 , pp. 111 - 112
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1968

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