x-ray source

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noun[C]
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/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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Generation and characterization of a brightx-raysourceusing picosecond laser.
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Spatial coherence measurements and x-ray holographic imaging using a laser-generated plasmax-raysourcein the water window spectral region.
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The gratings split and direct x-rays over a broad spectrum, thus lifting the restriction on the bandwidth of thex-raysource.
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A transientx-raysourcewas detected which faded with a power-law slope in the days following the burst.
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They made significant progress towards biomedical applications by replacing mechanical scanning of the gratings with electronic scanning of thex-raysource.
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A transientx-raysourcewas detected which faded with a power law slope in the days following the burst.
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Sharpness of a radiographic image is strongly determined by the size of thex-raysource.
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The emphasis in the text is on powder diffraction using conventional x-ray sources rather than synchrotron or neutron sources.
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It may also be a super-softx-raysourceif it is able to take material from its companion fast enough to sustain fusion on its surface.
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He was an early practitioner of precision stellar photometry, and a pioneering observer of the optical counterparts of celestial x-ray sources.
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X-ray sources, for example, must be in very close proximity to the target, while lasers can illuminate a target from a high satellite orbit.
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Most scientific literature on x-ray sources uses a closely related term called "brilliance", which counts the rate of photons produced, rather than their power.
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X-ray sources in the sky are also associated with the different phases of stellar evolution such as the supernova remnants, neutron stars, and black holes.
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