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Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) on-board Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

Shanmugam, M.; Vadawale, S. V.; Acharya, Y. B. +6 more

The remote X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful technique to investigate the elemental abundances in the atmosphere-less planetary bodies. The experiment involves measuring spectra of fluorescent X-rays from lunar surface using a low energy X-ray detector onboard an orbiting satellite. Since the flux of fluorescent X-ray lines critically …