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Old January 15th 19, 08:59 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Martin Hardcastle
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Default What does it mean in astrophysics for X-rays to be reflected?

In article ,
Thomas Womack wrote:
Is this in fact more like the process around a nuclear detonation,
where things absorb X-rays and are themselves heated to X-ray-emitting
temperatures?


The emission lines people talk about are X-ray fluorescence from
(relatively) cold material.

Martin
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