Can diffuse X-rays be important in driving photoionisation in molecular clouds?

arXiv:2609.02648 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Code: https://github.com/AstroBrandt/XRayCrossSections

Terminology

• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics — 2× in this paper
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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