Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

The assumption that the entire velocity rotation curve is due to a massive, spherical galactic halo (massive halo hypothesis) is used to construct a model of discrete soft x-ray emitting sources. Hot white dwarfs and flaring red dwarfs were found to have sufficient luminosity to account for the observed x-ray intensity. However, the distribution of these sources as dictated by the massive halo hypothesis is such that the observed latitude dependence of the x-ray intensity is not reproduced. Emission from a hot coronal gas also fails to reproduce the observed latitude dependence of the soft x-ray intensity; however, the crudity of the model of the hot coronal gas precludes any definite conclusions.

Extent

89 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.

Identifier

FADT13877

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