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Spectral Analysis Quiz

  1. Above 1 kev, the dominant cooling mechanism for an astrophysical plasma is



  2. Blackbody radiation is the result of



  3. In most X-ray systems, the plasmas are transparent enough that



  4. The spectrum determined by an X-ray detector is a convolution of



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