Caroline Kilbourn Stahle

TL;DR: A charge exchange emission model is developed that successfully reproduces the soft x-ray spectrum of comet Linear C/1999 S4, observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed some optimal signal processing techniques in order to construct the best possible estimates of our pulse heights in the presence of these non-ideal effects, and presented their plans for providing this kind of signal processing in flight experiments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the intensity ratios of the 3s → 2p and 3d→ 2p lines in Fe XVII were measured on the Livermore electron beam ion trap employing a complementary set of spectrometers, including a high-resolution crystal spectrometer and the Goddard 32 pixel calorimeter.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sounding rocket payload was used to obtain a high-resolution spectrum of the diffuse X-ray background between 0.1 and 1 keV using only mechanical collimation of the incoming X-rays, but the cryostat and detector assembly were designed to be placed at the focus of a conical foil imaging mirror which will be employed on subsequent flights to do spatially resolved spectroscopy of supernova remnants and other extended objects.

TL;DR: The temperature behavior is consistent with the prediction of the model for variable-range hopping (VRH) with a Coulomb gap, and the resistivities show a stronger temperature dependence than the Coulomb-gap model prediction.