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YU Daochun, LI Haitao, LI Baoquan, LIU Yaning. Methods of Planetary Atmospheric Density Retrieval Based on X-ray Occultation (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2023, 43(4): 661-669 doi: 10.11728/cjss2023.04.2022-0027
Citation: YU Daochun, LI Haitao, LI Baoquan, LIU Yaning. Methods of Planetary Atmospheric Density Retrieval Based on X-ray Occultation (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2023, 43(4): 661-669 doi: 10.11728/cjss2023.04.2022-0027
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Methods of Planetary Atmospheric Density Retrieval Based on X-ray Occultation

doi: 10.11728/cjss2023.04.2022-0027 cstr: 32142.14.cjss2023.04.2022-0027
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    National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190

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    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049

  • Received Date: 2022-06-09
  • Accepted Date: 2023-06-25
  • Rev Recd Date: 2022-12-28
    • Available Online: 2023-02-13
    Abstract
  • X-ray occultation is a common astronomical phenomenon. The retrieval of atmospheric density based on X-ray occultation sounding is a new method involving interdisciplinary research. This method realizes the inversion of atmospheric density by processing the measured occultation data of high-energy X-ray celestial radiation sources. The basic principle is that when X-rays propagate in the atmosphere, X-ray photons are absorbed and scattered by atoms in the atmosphere (including atoms in molecules), resulting in attenuation of X-ray intensity, and the corresponding density profile is retrieved according to the intensity of the attenuated X-ray signal. This paper briefly introduces the application requirements of X-ray occultation sounding, and focuses on the analysis and demonstration of a new method for retrieving atmospheric density based on X-ray occultation. Firstly, the research progress and methods of atmospheric density retrieval by X-ray occultation sounding are introduced, and two kinds of density retrieval algorithms, light curve fitting and energy spectrum fitting, including the construction of forward model and the selection of likelihood function in parameter estimation, are introduced emphatically. Then, the advantages of atmospheric density retrieval based on X-ray occultation are analyzed and discussed. Finally, the application scenarios of X-ray occultation sounding are prospected. The results show that X-ray occultation sounding, as a new means of measuring the density of the middle and upper atmosphere, can effectively detect the density of the middle and upper atmosphere, and make up the shortage of the current measured data of the middle and upper atmosphere density.

     

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