Comments on: Planet X-Ray https://briankoberlein.com/2016/09/18/planet-x-ray/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: K.J. https://briankoberlein.com/2016/09/18/planet-x-ray/#comment-4575 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:12:41 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6264#comment-4575 Grrrrr…..it turns out to be 7 or 8 photons in total, collected during almost 50 hours of observation time

Found this article with some more comments from Chandra team members. And the original x-ray image showing Pluto slightly bigger as a dot. So the image we see everywhere (and top of this page) is a highly blown-up image of Pluto in x-ray

Article; http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/09/14/thats-no-comet-thats-pluto-comet-like-tail-and-x-rays-discovered-at-solar-systems-edge/
The “real” x-ray image of Pluto; http://blogs-images.forbes.com/startswithabang/files/2016/09/8photons.png

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By: K.J. https://briankoberlein.com/2016/09/18/planet-x-ray/#comment-4559 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:43:28 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6264#comment-4559 I know nothing about astro photography. But i just could not imagine “they” were able to create a image in x-ray of Pluto (blue dot in above image) using only 7 photons. After some Googling around i noticed all pages talk about “7 photons in total collecting during almost 50 hours observation time”.

To get an idea “A high-quality digital camera based on a multi-megapixel array will typically record an image by collecting of order 10^5 photons per pixel”. Although we can’t compare this 1 on 1…it means that if you make a photo with your 5Megapixel camera, 1 million x 5 million photons are being used (with a shutter time of a fraction of a second)….thats alot of photons.

If i read the paper and google on, its still not clear to me. But they use a term “cts/s” which is some sort of unit for photon-count. So i guess they mean 7 photons per second, and not in total. Could anyone clear this up? Thanks in advance

Quote from the paper;
Added to the 2014 results, we find a total Pluto x-ray signal of 6.55 ± 1.28 cts, a total count rate of 3.7 x 10-5cps, and a 5.4σ detection of Pluto in an 11×11 pixel (5.5”x5.5”) box centered on its ephemeris position.

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By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2016/09/18/planet-x-ray/#comment-4558 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:30:55 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6264#comment-4558 Not dangerous at all. It’s so faint it takes the most sophisticated x-ray detectors to even detect it.

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By: Ally Beww https://briankoberlein.com/2016/09/18/planet-x-ray/#comment-4557 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:13:37 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6264#comment-4557 This x-ray from Pluto, is it dangerous and how would it affect earth?

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