Discovery of X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Emission from Comet C/Hyakutake 1996 B2

Author:

Lisse C. M.1,Dennerl K.2,Englhauser J.2,Harden M.3,Marshall F. E.4,Mumma M. J.4,Petre R.4,Pye J. P.5,Ricketts M. J.3,Schmitt J.2,Trümper J.2,West R. G.5

Affiliation:

1. C. M. Lisse is in the Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, and NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

2. K. Dennerl, J. Englhauser, J. Schmitt, and J. Trümper are at the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestriche Physik, Postfach 1603, 85740 Garching, Germany.

3. M. Harden and M. J. Ricketts are in the Space and Astrophysics Division, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK.

4. F. E. Marshall, M. J. Mumma, and R. Petre are at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

5. J. P. Pye and R. G. West are in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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3. The XTE PCA consists of five non-imaging multiwire proportional counters and has an effective area of about 6500 cm 2 [W. Zhang et al. in Proc. SPIE 2006 324 (1993)]. The PCA detects x-rays in the 2- to 60-keV band with an FOV diameter of about 2°. Background confusion noise dominates the observations in the PCA.

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