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1Alameda Applied Sciences, San Leandro, California 94577, USA.
The Review of Scientific Instruments
|December 7, 2007
Abstract:
Occultations are routinely used to derive information about astronomical objects. Here an occultation scheme is used to derive a fully time-resolved estimate of the x-ray emitting diameter of a z pinch. By using different filtrations on the sensors, one could for example, distinguish the size of the K-line emitting region compared to the higher energy K-continuum emitting volume. Or with suitable apertures and detector arrays, the pinch diameter could be axially and temporally resolved.
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